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A federal judge is considering forbidding “parties and witnesses” in the FTX case from speaking to the media, days after the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaked private documents from one of his co-conspirators to the press, according to court filings.The proposed order, filed Monday, comes as the DOJ claims…

A senior executive of the U.S.-based crypto exchange Coinbase has said he is confident the firm will receive an operating license in Japan next year, even while regulators in the country are stepping up scrutiny of crypto exchanges. Mike Lempres, chief policy officer of Coinbase, said that the process of getting a license is "going…

Mar 5, 2020 at 17:48 UTCUpdated Mar 5, 2020 at 17:52 UTCbZx stickers at EthDenver via John Biggs/CoinDeskLenders and depositors are coming back to bZx because the decentralized protocol for margin trading is offering significantly higher yields on ether deposits compared to its peers. The total number of ether (ETH) locked in bZx increased to 24,711…

Nov 27, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. UTC(igenkin/iStock via Getty Images Plus)ENCORE: Luke Gromen on the History and (Declining) Future of the Global Dollar SystemAs some start to wonder about a post-Bretton Woods economic system, macro analyst Luke Gromen explains how that post-World War II system came to be.For more episodes and free early access before our regular…

Influential House Republicans are demanding answers from Gensler on how ETH could legally be treated as a security by Prometheum.A total of 48 members of Congress signed a letter to Gensler, expressing concerns about how listing ETH as a security could threaten the crypto industry. As Prometheum Inc. nears an unprecedented moment in U.S. crypto

news A bill introduced this week in Congress takes a hard line on Iran’s efforts to develop its own cryptocurrency. U.S. regulators have warned in recent months that Iran’s government wants to use a sovereign cryptocurrency, similar to the petro in Venezuela, to evade economic sanctions. Portions of the Blocking Iran Illicit Finance Act, introduced…

Steve Kokinos, the former chief executive officer of Algorand, is set to become CEO of the company that will take over Celsius’ operations, serving on a board that includes two members of the bankrupt crypto lender's own creditor committee, according to Friday court filings.Celsius filed for bankruptcy in July last year as the crypto crash

news Hackers are now accessing wallets containing cryptocurrency stolen from Binance in May. Coinfirm, the company that tracked the original few moves in early May has spotted a massive outflow from the original hoard of wallets created on May 7, 2019. Coinfirm’s CEO, Grant Blaisdell, wrote: The attack was conducted using diversified techniques including viruses and…

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is adjusting to life behind bars where mackerel has replaced cigarettes as currency, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Thursday.With smoking now banned, the age-old practice of paying for certain goods and services with cigarettes in prisons has given way to trading preserved fish. Bankman-Fried traded some