Crypto advocates file brief against SEC's investor tracking database

A number of states in the United States, including Kentucky, Texas, Alabama, Vermont, New Jersey and, most recently, New York have been cracking down on crypto lending. Depending on one’s perspective, these can amount to acts of collective desperation or a foretoken of things to come.Asked about the clampdown on crypto lending firms like BlockFi…

The recent crypto crash hit memecoins hard, culminating with a 9% drop in total market capitalization from Aug. 14 to Aug. 21. During the same period, Pepecoin (PEPE), Shiba Inu (SHIB) and ApeCoin (APE) saw a 25% decline. The big question is whether this trend will affect the wider market, signaling a broader bear market,…

Bahrain’s central bank is launching a regulatory sandbox to allow blockchain and crypto companies to work in the country, pending formalized regulations. The news was reported by Bloomberg оn Feb. 20.As previously reported, in December 2018, the central bank issued draft proposals to potentially regulate and license crypto asset services. With the prospective framework currently…

A pair of researchers from ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, have developed a method by which, theoretically, any artificial intelligence (AI) model that relies on human feedback, including the most popular large language models (LLMs), could potentially be jailbroken.Jailbreaking is a colloquial term for bypassing a device or system’s intended security protections. It’s most commonly used

CEO Merrick Okamoto said the crypto purchase would help make Marathon an appealing choice to investors seeking "exposure to this new asset class." 1466 Total views 10 Total shares Nevada-based crypto mining firm Marathon Patent Group has invested $150 million in Bitcoin as a reserve asset.Marathon announced today that it has purchased more than 4,812…

The average crypto investor probably isn’t planning on dying of old age anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a plan in place to pass on their crypto in the event they meet an unlikely demise, lawyers warn.Speaking to Cointelegraph, Dubai-based crypto lawyer Irina Heaver believes that “billions” worth of Bitcoin (BTC) has…

Global media giant Warner Music Group will be creating digital assets using new public blockchain backed by CryptoKitties creator.Warner Music’s to create assets on FlowAccording to a Forbes report on Sept. 12, Warner Music has joined an $11.2 million investment in CryptoKitties creator Dapper Labs in order to collaborate on the deployment of the company’s…

The ban is intended to reduce Argentina's payment-system exposure to digital assets, said the monetary authority. 382 Total views 3 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTOn May 4, Argentina's central bank banned payment providers from offering crypto transactions, alleging it intends to reduce the country's payment-system exposure to…