Reginald Fowler May Reopen Plea Talks in Crypto Capital Case

feature According to venture capitalist Dovey Wan of Primitive Ventures, finding sustainable funding for bitcoin developers is the biggest challenge facing the ecosystem in 2019. To bridge that gap, she’s helped gather 50 BTC — an amount worth just north of $450,000 at press time prices — that are now up for grabs. Wan partnered…

The National Bank of Kazakhstan on Wednesday kicked off a central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot, with one official marking the occasion by making the first retail payment using the digital tenge.The central bank conducted the first issue of the digital tenge on a platform launched in "pilot mode," but with real users in the

Mar 27, 2020 at 13:30 UTCBitcoin Price Decline Prompts US Mining Firm to Shut Down ‘Indefinitely’Digital Farms, a California-based cryptocurrency mining company, is putting its operations on hold due to the recent decline in bitcoin's price.On March 18, the miner's parent company, investment firm DPW Holdings, filed an update with the U.S. Securities and Exchange…

news The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned three Chinese nationals and their cryptocurrency addresses, alleging they violated money laundering and drug smuggling laws. OFAC named Xiaobing Yan, Fujing Zheng and Guanghua Zheng as narcotics traffickers under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, freezing any property they own within the U.S. and…

Bappebti, the Indonesian commodities regulator, formed a committee dedicated to monitoring the crypto industry.The committee will include regulator, government and industry representatitves.The Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency, the Indonesian government agency known as Bappebti whose responsibilities include overseeing cryptocurrencies, formed a dedicated committee to monitor the industry.The Crypto Asset Committee was established under regulations enacted

Binance.US continues to rely on a custody provider provided by the company’s international arm, in violation of a previous deal, the SEC has said.The crypto exchange says regulators assets are safe and that regulators are merely engaged on a “futile fishing expedition."Binance.US has been accused of not cooperating in a probe by the Securities and

Bitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 9, 2020With bitcoin hovering just above $10,000 and a tokenized form of Ethereum transaction fees in the crosshairs, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup! For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases , subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. Today's…

SecretSwap works similarly to Uniswap or SushiSwap but also has privacy benefits. Feb 17, 2021 at 8:08 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 17, 2021 at 8:13 p.m. UTCSecretSwap Is the Secret Network’s Answer to DeFi PrivacyThe Secret Network, a protocol focused on privacy for decentralized finance (DeFi), has launched SecretSwap, a front-running resistant and cross-chain decentralized exchange.…

Mar 16, 2020 at 05:00 UTCBitcoin mining farm via CoinDesk's archivePrice Drop Casts Pall Over Bitcoin Miners’ Equipment UpgradesBitcoin’s price crash last week has cast a shadow over mining firms, which have spent over half a billion dollars overhauling equipment over the last six months in preparation for the network’s next so-called halving.Large bitcoin (BTC)…