U.S. Senate candidate John Deaton has called for the resignation of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler. “Under Gensler, the SEC has forgotten, or intentionally abandoned, its primary mission in protecting innocent investors,” he stressed. Deaton Calls for Gensler’s Resignation John Deaton, a U.S. Senate candidate running against incumbent U.S. Senator […]
FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for his conviction on seven different fraud and conspiracy charges. Bankman-Fried was accused of running a massive fraud in FTX and Read More
The rapidly rising validator count on the Ethereum blockchain following the Shapella upgrade in April last year is causing concerns about technical capacity and centralization, Fidelity Digital Assets wrote in a research report on Thursday. Read More
The dogecoin (DOGE) price surged to its highest level since December 2021 on Thursday, with trading volumes and futures open interest rising significantly. Several posts from prominent Dogecoin community members on X speculated about the token’Read More
Kerrisdale Capital is short MicroStrategy stock and long bitcoin. The stock’s relative attractiveness doesn’t justify paying more than double for the same coin, Kerrisdale said. MicroStrategy is no longer a unique way to Read More
Investor interest in digital assets continues to grow. Crypto indices and funds are being created to track and provide tools and vehicles that expose investors to a broader cryptocurrency offering beyond just bitcoin. Jason Leibowitz Read More
OKX’s global chief compliance officer, Patrick Donegan, left in January after just six months in post. Donegan, whose responsibilities included anti-money laundering, managed a team of 300. Unmute 02:07 SEC’s Crypto Enforcement Actions in 2023 1:09:58 How Read More
It is patently absurd that Sam Bankman-Fried asked to receive no more than 6.5 years for what could be appropriately described as the crime of the century. It is also laughable that, in arguing for a Read More
The Ethereum blockchain just a couple weeks ago completed a landmark upgrade to create a dedicated space for storing data – known as “blobs,” under a plan to reduce fees while also relieving congestion. But already, Read More
Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, released this statement on social media platform X (formerly twitter) after Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison: Statement of U.S. Read More
