Bitfinex money launderer ‘Razzlekhan’ sentenced to 18 months in prison

Facebook and Instagram filed suit against a user who, they allege, operated a cloaking service that allowed ads for a range of scams to slip through the advertisement reviews for both platforms.Facebook’s accusations and request for reliefIn a civil complaint filed with a federal court in San Francisco on April 9, the social media giants…

Onchain data from early March suggests Bitwise’s allocation into Maple Finance’s products topped $5 million. Bitwise Asset Management has made its first institutional decentralized finance (DeFi) allocation, depositing into Maple Finance’s overcollateralized Bitcoin loans, Maple told Cointelegraph on March 6.  Maple did not disclose the size of the investment but confirmed that Bitwise’s allocation is

Fortress Investment Group is buying bitcoin (BTC) claims from Mt. Gox creditors, according to a report by CoinDesk on July 8.The Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy in 2014 after losing $473 million worth of bitcoin at the time due to an apparent hack. Bitcoin reportedly experienced a subsequent decline in value, dropping…

Corporates that advocate for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) responsibility initiatives should adopt blockchain technology, the CEO of Spanish blockchain software firm Finboot said on March 5th in a blog post.According to Finboot CEO and co-founder Juan Miguel Perez, to communicate the achievements of ESG initiatives, companies must obtain quantitative metrics that verify their progress…

The newly branded Halo Wallet seeks to broaden its efforts from Web3 to social finance, also known as SocialFi. 85 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTDecentralized wallet KuCoin Wallet announced on Apr. 3 that it has rebranded as Halo Wallet and launched a new SocialFi ecosystem.…

Galaxy Digital is set to manage the sale of bankrupt FTX’s crypto holdings and facilitate the staking of certain tokens to generate passive yield. 137 Total views 2 Total shares Mike Novogratz’s digital asset management firm Galaxy Digital looks set to manage the remaining cryptocurrency holdings of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX.On Aug. 24, the company filed a…

Coinbase CEO has criticized United States’ senators for asking Stripe, Mastercard and Visa to leave Facebook’s crypto project Libra.“Something feels very un-American about this”After U.S. Senators Brian Schatz and Sherrod Brown apparently pressured the payment giants to leave Libra, Brian Armstrong, co-founder and CEO of major U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase, called the action “un-American” in…

In a whirlwind seven-day period, which began with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey proving that almost anything can be tokenized — even his old tweets — and culminated on Thursday with a Christie’s art auction that brought a mind-boggling $69.3 million bid for a tokenized Beeple work — fetching more at an auction than pieces by…