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The response comes in relation to a series of claims made by the CFTC in its March 27 complaint against Binance. 696 Total views 6 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTBinance CEO Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao has rejected allegations from the Commodities Futures and Trading Commission, arguing the company…

There could now be a career-risk for a portfolio manager to not have Bitcoin in their portfolio — the CoinShares chairman talks Bitcoin sentiment on CNBC 1750 Total views 21 Total shares CoinShares chair and former JP Morgan commodity trader Danny Masters told CNBC that the financial landscape has changed to the point where not…

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekHodlers beware! New malware targets MetaMask and 40 other crypto wallets According…

Bitcoin consolidates below $39,000 as one trader warns about a possible squeeze on the daily chart, while a nine-year support level continues to hold strong. 674 Total views 35 Total shares The blockchain community got a bit of good news on March 14 after regulators in the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs rejected…

Top Stories This Week FTX EU launches withdrawal website to pay back European users The European arm of FTX has launched a website to allow customers in Europe to submit withdrawal requests. It comes nearly five months after the global trading platform collapsed and went bankrupt in early November. Meanwhile, in the United States, lawyers…

“The proposal includes very expansive language, which, together with the chair’s apparent interest in regulating all things crypto, suggests that it could be used to regulate crypto platforms,” said Hester Peirce. 79 Total views 1 Total shares Hester Peirce, a commissioner for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission known by many in the space as…

Authorities recently took an Ohio local into custody recently for accusations of running an unlawful money laundering outfit on the Dark Web. The alleged operator of an illegal business called Helix, Larry Harmon faces accusations of money laundering and running a money transference venture without proper licensing, the Department of Justice, or DoJ, detailed on Feb.…

Neil Wals, chief of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Global Cybercrime Program, warned that cryptocurrencies have made combating money laundering significantly harder.Australian news outlet ABC reported on Aug. 29 that Wals said cryptocurrencies make fighting cybercrime, money laundering and financing of terrorism harder. Wals expressed the idea that criminals using crypto assets include…

One of the crypto industry's major players seeks to boost the public debate on how to best fit digital assets into the regulatory perimeter. 57 Total views 3 Total shares On Oct. 14, cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase published its Digital Asset Policy Proposal, a document offering both a justification and conceptual framework for comprehensive regulation…