Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
Regulatory
and legal troubles that Binance faced in the United States (and globally) have led to a
significant drop in the crypto market giant's share. Surprisingly, the main
beneficiaries of this situation were not the exchange's main competitors, b...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
The global online payments company, PayPal is planning to
pause cryptocurrency sales for a minimum of
three months starting October 1 for users in the UK. This unprecedented move is a response to the
new regulations introduced by the UK’s watchdog...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
Binance
Connect, the fiat-to-cryptocurrency payments service launched by Binance in March last year, will cease
operations tomorrow (Wednesday). A Binance spokesperson confirmed the development to
Cointelegraph. Binance Connect
Ends JourneyAccording...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
The Las Vegas-based cryptocurrency custodian, Prime Trust
has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This marks the latest setback
for the financial technology company, which has faced a series of challenges
over the past year, from regulatory i...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
Binance has
criticised the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for reportedly
making “incredibly overbroad” and “unreasonable”
demands for information over the past 45 days. The regulator’s discovery
requests include demands that the Chief Ex...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
The London-headquartered Jacobi Asset Management has
introduced Europe's first spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) on Euronext
Amsterdam. The company obtained approval in 2021 but delayed the launch
reportedly due to unpredictable circumstances i...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
Pressure on
cryptocurrency firms does not seem to decrease. Their condition is not helped
by the prolonged consolidation of major assets or the tightening regulatory
screws by governmental financial institutions in the USA and Europe. Problems
are al...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
Coinbase has launched a lobby group in a retaliatory move
against what the US-based cryptocurrency exchange has for a long time described
as an unclear regulatory framework for the industry. The group will reportedly
shape the crypto regulatory lands...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
Sam Bankman-Fried, the Founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency
exchange FTX, is facing allegations of misusing customers' funds to make over
USD $100 million in contributions to political campaigns leading up to the 2022 US
midterm elections.Accord...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
The Canadian-based Bitcoin mining firm, Hut 8
has released its financial results for the second quarter of 2023, revealing a
decline in revenue and low mining output. The decline in performance was
reportedly due to multiple factors, including suspen...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
The UK’s
financial watchdog continues to maintain strict supervision of the emerging crypto
industry in the country. Since January 10, 2020, 291 crypto asset businesses in
the country have applied for registration under the 5th Anti-Money Laundering...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
The cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase has expanded its
services to Canada in partnership with Peoples Trust Company. According to the
company’s statement released today (Monday), the collaboration allows more users to access digital assets in Cana...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
The crypto markets have been placid lately, with notoriously volatile key asset bitcoin notably lacking in volatility, as it reaches something of an impasse at just below 30K. Seasoned observers are hinting that such tightly constrained passivity usu...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
Lewis
Kaplan, the judge presiding over the case between the United States and Sam
Bankman-Fried, has sent the Founder of the cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, to jail
ahead of his criminal trial billed for October 2, 2023. The move follows a successful
a...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
Prime
Trust, the beleaguered cryptocurrency custodian, might be on the brink of
significant job cuts, CoinDesk
revealed today (Friday), quoting ex-employees. Anonymous sources suggest that
up to 75% of positions might be at risk, based on insider inf...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
The bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, Bittrex has agreed
to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a fine of USD $24 million.
The settlement is related to allegations that the cryptocurrency
exchange offered unregistered securities to inves...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
Digital Currency Group (DCG), the parent company of
Genesis Capital Global, aims to counter the claims of fraud raised by the
Winklevoss-owned Gemini Exchange. DCG has responded with a motion to dismiss
the allegations, terming them as a continuation...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
FTX's debtors have clashed with the Official Committee of Unsecured
Creditors (UCC) over the control of the asset of the collapsed cryptocurrency
exchange. The disagreement has been complicated by plans to relaunch the exchange's operations outside t...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
A class action lawsuit involving Singapore state investor, Temasek and the collapsed American cryptocurrency exchange has gained momentum.
Recently, additional plaintiffs have been added to the lawsuit, intensifying
the scrutiny of the alleged violat...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
After five
years since its inception and attracting 10 million users from nearly 170
countries, the popular multi-chain non-custodial crypto wallet, BitKeep, has
changed its name to Bitget Wallet. The decision comes in the wake of Bitget
acquiring Bi...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
New concepts develop
continuously in a quickly expanding digital ecosystem, transforming industries
and challenging existing rules. NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) have taken center
stage among these developments, altering how we perceive ownership, creat...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
Another
popular crypto exchange has joined the ranks of the digital asset companies that
were significantly impacted by the industry downturn in 2022. Bitstamp's
financial report was released this week summarizing the past year in reflection of the p...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is planning
to move to court to challenge the ruling that granted Ripple Labs a partial win
against the agency. The SEC has reportedly written to a judge in Manhattan to
allow the federal court of appeal...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
Even though
the prolonged period of cryptocurrency winter is behind us, digital asset
market companies still feel its adverse effects. The consolidation of Bitcoin
(BTC) and other asset prices, low network activity, and increasing mining
difficulty m...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
Base, a
layer 2 blockchain created by Coinbase, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange
in the United States, went live for public access today (Wednesday).The move
comes as the publicly traded company, which is one of the largest digital asset
exchanges...