BROOKLYN, NY — Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced a significant breakthrough in combating cryptocurrency scams, particularly a tactic known as “pig butchering.” This scam involves tricking individuals through online …
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By Anna Tong and Krystal Hu (Reuters) – Founders Fund, the venture capital firm founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, is investing once again in bitcoin and ether, sources said, signaling …
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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Crypto companies based outside the EU will only be able to directly serve customers within the bloc under very limited conditions to avoid unfair …
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By Elizabeth Howcroft and Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) – Cryptocurrency lender Nexo is seeking $3 billion in damages from Bulgaria over an aborted criminal investigation that the company alleges scuppered …
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This morning, German national Horst Jicha, 64, will be arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, facing charges of securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracies in connection with …
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By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – At least $24.2 billion worth of crypto was sent to illicit crypto wallet addresses in 2023, including addresses identified as sanctioned or linked to …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s central bank has lifted a ban on transacting in cryptocurrencies, while saying global trends had shown a need to regulate such activities, the bank said in …
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(Reuters) -Cryptocurrency miner Core Scientific said on Thursday it was expecting to emerge from bankruptcy in mid-to-late January, a year after it became a casualty of high-profile collapses that led …
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(Reuters) – Coinbase filed a petition in a federal appeals court requesting a review of a decision by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to deny the crypto exchange’s request …
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By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Trend-following and niche hedge funds that trade crypto currencies and insurance-linked assets attracted most new investor money in the first three quarters of 2023, …
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By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – After ending 2023 on a high, crypto investors will be watching central bank interest rates and a U.S. regulatory decision on new bitcoin products as …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police said on Friday they detained a Spaniard wanted by the United States for allegedly conspiring with a convicted American cryptocurrency researcher to help North Korea …
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(Reuters) -Shares of crypto miners and bitcoin-tracking companies rose on Friday as the world’s largest cryptocurrency extended a recent rally to touch a near 19-month high on improving risk appetite. …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – No one is a prophet in their own land, including European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, who admitted on Friday that her son lost “almost all” of …
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(Reuters) – Binance chief Changpeng Zhao stepped down and pleaded guilty to breaking criminal U.S. anti-money laundering laws as part of a $4.3 billion settlement resolving a years-long probe into …
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By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – Crypto firm Tether said on Monday that it had frozen $225 million worth of its cryptocurrency which it said had been linked to a …
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(Reuters) – A spate of filings for spot bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs), including from traditional finance heavyweights, has revived the crypto market that had been crushed by a …
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PHILADELPHIA, PA – The U.S. Secret Service has launched “Operation Crypto Guard” in Philadelphia to combat the increasing prevalence of pig butchering scams. This initiative, announced on Friday, aims to …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – EU rules to protect the financial system from risks stemming from cryptocurrencies contain a loophole that allows banks to circumvent some safeguards and should be fixed urgently, …
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Jury Finds Disgraced Crypto Tycoon And Dem Megadonor Guilty Of Fraud Jason Cohen on November 2, 2023 A jury found disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon and Democrat megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – The founder and two top executives at SafeMoon, whose namesake crypto token was once valued at more than $8 billion, have been charged …
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By Max A. Cherney and Anna Tong (Reuters) – A nonprofit organization funded by cryptocurrency billionaire Jed McCaleb bought roughly $500 million of Nvidia advanced chips and plans to lease …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Global banking regulators on Tuesday proposed a standardised format for major banks to disclose their holdings of cryptoassets from January 2025 to support “market discipline” by giving …
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By Giulio Piovaccari MILAN (Reuters) – Ferrari has started to accept payment in cryptocurrency for its luxury sports cars in the U.S. and will extend the scheme to Europe following …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it reached a settlement with bankrupt crypto company Voyager that will permanently ban it from handling consumers’ assets. The agency also …