California Judge Orders Accused Hacker to Pay Bail in Crypto

news The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined Russia-based analytics firm ICORating for failure to disclose payments for positive reviews to various projects. Today the SEC announced a $268,998 settlement with ICORating for projects rated from December 2017 through July 2018. According to the SEC, projects rated by ICORating during that time raised…

Shima Capital has backed more than 100 early-stage companies in the two years since its founding, and the venture-capital firm hasn't slowed down amid the recent industry turmoil.“We see the trends today in a barbell layout,” said Shima Capital founder Yida Gao during an interview with CoinDesk.The traditional finance veteran who started Shima Capital in…

Jul 17, 2020 at 12:24 UTCFirst Mover: Why Bitcoin Traders Couldn’t Give a Sat About the Twitter HackCryptocurrency traders yawned at one of the year’s biggest news stories for bitcoin, with prices barely budging as the digital-asset industry became a primary victim of this week’s massive hack on Twitter accounts. The notoriously volatile bitcoin slid…

MIAMI BEACH, Florida – The Bitcoin-focused payments firm Strike is expanding its app to more than 65 countries from the current base of the U.S., El Salvador and Argentina.Strike CEO Jack Mallers made the announcement on Friday at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami Beach, Florida.The Strike app uses Bitcoin and Lightning – a secondary…

MakerDAO announced on Thursday an open competition to invest $1 billion in tokenized U.S. Treasury offerings. Top issuers such as BlackRock-Securitize, Ondo Finance and Superstate are planning to apply, they told CoinDesk. 06:22 Philippines Taps Blockchain 04:56 BlackRock CEO Predicts Tokenization Is the Future of Markets 00:48 Tokenization on Public Blockchains Democratizes Access: Securitize CEO

Jul 31, 2020 at 17:36 UTCUpdated Jul 31, 2020 at 18:34 UTCMoney Reimagined: Let’s Be Privacy ScoldsMichael Casey is on vacation this week. The following essay was written by Marc Hochstein, CoinDesk’s executive dditor. Once, I pried into a stranger’s affairs for no good reason at all. This happened almost 20 years ago, but the story…

Bitcoin surpassed $58,000 during Asian trading hours, influenced by a rally in U.S. tech stocks and positive movements in Asian equities. Despite the bitcoin price increase, U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs experienced outflows, with Ark Invest’s ARKB seeing a notable $54 million outflow. AI tokens posted modest gains amid reports that OpenAI is planning to raise

Australia's crypto industry is worried after the country's securities regulator signaled an expansion of its power. ASIC said it considers many crypto assets as financial products, adding a regulatory burden that may spur companies to move elsewhere. Australia's crypto industry is concerned companies may flee the country after the nation's securities regulator set off "the

Blockchain Bites: Digital Yuan’s 4M Transactions, Bitcoin’s 33-Month High, Uniswap’s Second Governance VoteOctober saw the first time the total value locked in all DeFi protocols closed below the month’s starting value. Square Crypto is sponsoring a bitcoin wallet designer. A new civil suit alleges BitMEX executives were looting profits.At stakeDeFi contractionIn the last week of…