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San Francisco-based Jerry Guo represented himself to clients as an ICO consultant, then embezzled funds now worth over $20 million.Jan 27, 2021 at 9:16 a.m. UTCUS Man Sentenced to Prison for Embezzling $20M of ICO Investors’ FundsA San Francisco man is heading to prison after a U.S. court sentenced him for conducting a multi-million-dollar cryptocurrency…

Sep 16, 2020 at 20:37 UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: With Fed Rate Policy Unchanged, Bitcoin Passes $11K; Ether Options Bet on Price Below $400Bitcoin’s price continues to move up, with a little help from the U.S. Federal Reserve, while ether traders are hedging in the options market. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,979 as…

news Derivatives exchange FTX has launched an index of eight popular China-based cryptocurrencies. Announced in a tweet by the firm’s CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Tuesday, the Dragon Perpetual Futures Index (DRGN-PERP) tracks a basket of coins including BTM, IOST, NEO, NULS, ONT, QTUM, TRX, and VET, based on a weighted average of their respective prices. FTX…

Oct 21, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Oct 21, 2020 at 13:20 UTCNew York Lawyers Propose Toolkit for Keeping ‘Decentralized’ Blockchains HonestA New York law firm is trying to test blockchain projects’ decentralization claims against their perhaps not-quite-so-distributed realities.Called the “Ketsal Open Standards” rubric, the toolkit, developed by the Ketsal law firm and revealed exclusively to…

Bitcoin is trading on Korean exchanges at the steepest discount since October 2023, according to CryptoQuant. Smart traders have shifted to high-beta altcoins, data tracked by 10x Research show. Crypto traders on South Korea-based exchanges seem to have shifted from bitcoin (BTC) to alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins) amid bullish analysts' forecasts in the wake of the

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler is doubling down on his crypto objections in his first remarks following the second recent court setback in his agency’s sweeping legal fight with the industry.After decisions in the Ripple case that energized crypto advocates and the even more pronounced failure of the SEC’s Grayscale bitcoin

On this Speaking of Bitcoin episode, join hosts Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy & Jonathan Mohan for an in-depth discussion about what’s really at risk when blockchains suffer the dreaded 51% attack.This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.On today’s show we’re talking 51% attacks, the much discussed, infrequently seen and fairly misunderstood doomsday scenarios. It’s a…

Uniswap Labs – the key company building top decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap – will impose a 0.15% fee starting Tuesday on trades involving ETH, USDC and other tokens. Only swaps that execute through Uniswap Labs' frontend will be taxed.The fee is different from Uniswap's existing "protocol fee" that's managed by governance voters. It's being levied

Dec 31, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. UTCCaesar by Adolphe Yvon (1875)(Creative Commons)Why Crypto Crosses ‘The Chasm’ in a Post-Coronavirus WorldIt is often said that Julius Caesar brought the Roman Republic to an end when he crossed the Rubicon River with the 13th Legion of the Roman Republican Army on Jan. 10, 49 BC, starting the…