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news U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin agrees with his boss that crypto is for crooks. In a press conference Monday, Mnuchin voiced the Trump administration’s concerns with Facebook’s Libra and cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. Mnuchin’s statements come ahead of two hearings on Capitol Hill this week, in which Facebook blockchain lead David Marcus is expected to testify before both…

At first, Balaji Srinivasan held his tongue about the coronavirus. Years before he became an angel investor and intellectual firebrand of the cryptocurrency community, Srinivasan had co-founded a genetic testing company that was eventually sold for $375 million. He had also written papers on microbial and clinical genomics and taught bioinformatics at Stanford. So even though…

Former U.S. president and Republican front-runner Donald Trump said bitcoin (BTC) has "taken a life of its own" and will probably need some regulation.Trump was speaking to Fox News during a town hall event in South Carolina on Tuesday ahead of the state's Republican primary. Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, remains the only

Nov 11, 2020 at 3:04 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 11, 2020 at 3:05 p.m. UTCTraders are giving exchange tokens a new look – as a bet on the exchanges themselves. (Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)First Mover: Bitcoin Pause, Ethereum Snafu, 1,000% Returns Put Focus on Exchange TokensBitcoin was higher, pushing toward the upper edge of its recent…

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a crypto project the Trump family has endorsed, will be launching a governance token. The token will be non-transferable offered only to accredited investors under an SEC Regulation D exemption as the team cited regulatory uncertainty in the U.S. Team members behind the World Liberty Financial (WLFI) crypto project, which has

A New York court has approved a settlement between Genesis and the NYAGThe settlement involves a $2 billion fine which wil go towards establishing a victims' fund.The office of the New York Attorney General announced today that a state court had approved a $2 billion settlement with bankrupt crypto lender Genesis.In October 2023, the NYAG

Valkyrie Digital Assets refiled its application for a spot bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, joining asset managers including BlackRock and Fidelity in taking another stab at the process.The Tennessee-based asset manager filed a new 19b-4 paper saying crypto exchange Coinbase would act as the partner for a so-called…

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Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Will Canny is CoinDesk's finance reporter.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) could require Binance to cease operations in the U.S. as part of a…