I Tried to Get People to Give Away Bitcoin – And They Did

International accounting firm Prager Metis has agreed to pay $745,000 to settle misconduct allegations from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) tied to its bungled audit of FTX before its collapse in November 2022. The settlement, announced Tuesday, also included a resolution to a second SEC investigation into Prager Metis, which accused the firm

Cryptocurrency brokerage sFOX is providing customers commission-free access to blockchain staking directly from regulated custody without the risks associated with transferring ownership of their coins, the company said Tuesday.A software layer designed to make staking easy, sFOX allows professional users, high-net-worth individuals, hedge funds and the like to store their staked crypto in Wyoming trust

news FumbleChain makes breaking blockchains a sport. Demonstrated for the first time last Thursday at the Black Hat infosec event, the deliberately flawed technology is meant to act as an educational tool for crypto developers. “Basically, this what people call CTF, or ‘capture the flag,’” explained Nils Amiet, a senior security engineer at Kudelski and…

Nov 10, 2020 at 14:02 UTCUpdated Nov 10, 2020 at 14:37 UTCAnchorage items(CoinDesk archives)Crypto services provider Anchorage said it received third-party certification that the controls supporting its financial reporting and operations are adequately secure.The SOC 1 Type 1 report is granted after an independent third-party audit of a company’s internal systems and controls supporting client…

Nov 17, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 17, 2020 at 2:01 p.m. UTCBalaji Srinivasan, HashKey Back $2M Round in Twitter Privacy Tool Mask NetworkMask Network, the protocol that allows users to send encrypted messages, cryptocurrencies and even dapps over Twitter and Facebook, announced a $2 million funding round Tuesday co-led by HashKey and Hash…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest Prices(CoinDesk)Top StoriesThe crypto market ticked tentatively upward this morning with bitcoin moving back above $40,000. Bitcoin settled back above the $40,000 mark having climbed as high as

news Blockstack has raised more than $20 million in a token sale approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced Tuesday. In a blog post, Blockstack co-founder Muneeb Ali wrote that the company’s Reg A+ compliant token offering concluded on Sept. 9, and combined with a strategic investment round led by Hashkey Group…

Martin Shkreli, also known as "Pharma Bro," claims he and Barron Trump created the DJT token after initially denying involvement.This revelation followed a series of events, including Shkreli's $100 million bet with crypto trader GCR on the token's authenticity and blockchain sleuth ZachXBT's uncovering evidence linking Shkreli to the token.Despite the drama, the Trump campaign

It has been clear for many years now that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and leader of the biggest platforms in Web 2.0, wishes he was spending more time building in the crypto world. Now he’s at it again with Threads, Meta’s new Twitter-like social media app, which is leveraging the growing appeal of decentralization.We first saw…