I Underestimated Just How Many Subpoenas I Would Get

Polymarket is being investigated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to see whether the prediction market platform is letting customers improperly trade swaps or binary options and if it should be registered with the agency, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.The company, which facilitated about 4 billion shares since the start of…

news The head of the U.S. central bank believes Facebook should not be allowed to launch its Libra cryptocurrency until the company details how it will handle a number of regulatory concerns. “I just think it cannot go forward without there being broad satisfaction with the way the company has addressed money laundering,” Jerome Powell,…

news There is no ambiguity: crypto startups must follow U.S. anti-money-laundering (AML) laws or else suffer the consequences, said the nation’s top AML regulator. Kenneth Blanco, director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), warned the crypto industry Monday to take heed of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and other AML regulations when setting up…

A 23-year-old woman from Sydney, Australia, has been arrested over the alleged theft of cryptocurrency worth over $300,000 at the time. The unnamed woman is said to have stolen 100,000 XRP in January from a wallet owned by a 56-year-old man, according to a report by ZDNet on Wednesday. She was apparently arrested by police…

news According to the artist who calls himself Cryptograffiti, art could be a way to help the public to understand cryptocurrencies, The San Francisco artist displayed his work at the event Bitcoin2019 where he talked to CoinDesk about the impact of art in the cryptocurrency space and his work in South America. “I devoted my work…

Mar 5, 2020 at 10:01 UTCUpdated Mar 5, 2020 at 10:07 UTCGalia Benartzi, co-founder of Bancor. Credit: Brady Dale for CoinDeskKyber Network and Bancor Network have been integrated into a new platform that provides cross-chain liquidity for decentralized finance (DeFi). London-based Provable Things announced Thursday it had successfully launched pTokens – 1:1 proxies for cryptocurrencies…

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news Fortis Escorts, a private hospital in the Indian city of Jaipur, has released details about the death of Gerald Cotten, CEO of Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX. In a statement shared with CoinDesk on Thursday, Fortis Escorts said that Cotten was admitted to the hospital on Dec. 8, 2018 at 9:45 p.m. IST (16:15 UTC) and…