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On February 17, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged NBA Hall of Famer Paul Pierce with illegally promoting the EMAX token on his social media accounts. The EMAX token was offered and sold by EthereumMax. According to the complaint, Pierce has agreed to pay a penalty of $1,115,000, plus approximately $240,000 in disgorgement and prejudgment interest, without admitting or denying guilt, to avoid greater sanctions from regulators. He is also prohibited from...

Bitcoin’s volatile performance as of late continued in the past 24 hours as the asset touched $25,000 once again before falling back down by $500. Several altcoins are well in the green as well, with OKB stealing the show and tapping a new all-time high beyond $50. Bitcoin Stopped at $25K Again It was just several days ago when the primary cryptocurrency had dipped to $21,500 amid the ongoing regulatory scrutiny by the United States authorities. However, the landscape changed...

Gilbert Armenta – the former boyfriend of Ruja Ignatova (more famous as the “Cryptoqueen”) – will reportedly spend five years in jail for participating in the fraudulent cryptocurrency project OneCoin. The Bulgarian-born Ignatova – the Founder of the infamous Ponzi scheme – sits on the FBI’s ten most-wanted list. She was last seen in 2017 in Greece, while some sources hinted she could have been killed. Armenta Gets Five Years, Instead of Seven According to a Bloomberg...

Binance.US refuted an earlier report made by Reuters, which stated that the international exchange allegedly moved $400 million from an account belonging to the American affiliate. In an attempt to clarify the situation, Binance.US said that only executives of the platform had such access to its bank accounts. Binance Purportedly Transferred $400 Million from Binance.US A report released by Reuters on Thursday (Feb. 16, 2023) claimed that bank records and company messages...

The largest creditors of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox have chosen a payment option that will allow them to receive a lump sum of their recovery payout in bitcoins rather than fiat. The creditors, now-defunct crypto exchange Bitcoinica and Mt Gox Investment Fund (MGIF), collectively represent about one-fifth of the bankruptcy claims. Gox Biggest Creditors Choose Bitcoin Payment Both entities have opted to receive up to 90% of their claims in BTC during the early...

Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi has filed a motion to dismiss the bankruptcy case for Emergent Fidelity Technologies, the holding firm owned by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), founder and former CEO of FTX. In the motion, filed on Thursday in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, BlockFi argued that Emergent is not eligible for a bankruptcy case as it has no other assets than 56 million Robinhood shares. BlockFi Seeks to Dismiss Emergent’s Bankruptcy Case...

FTX’s Japanese subsidiary has moved closer to its goal of unlocking its users’ trapped funds.  The bankrupt company told clients on Friday that they can now confirm their balances on the platform, as part of a plan to compensate clients by the end of the month.  A Step Closer to Compensation Besides viewing their balances, users have been notified that they can migrate their assets to the Japanese crypto exchange platform, Liquid. The firm received $120 million from FTX after...

North Korea has long done anything and everything it could to get its hands on crypto. There’s no doubt about that. At this stage, it’s obvious the nation is trying to garner digital assets so it can fund its ongoing nuclear program. However, until now, we’ve always been afraid of Lazarus, as this is the main state-funded hacking organization trying to garner illicit crypto through stealing, cyberattacks, and thievery. North Korea Has a New Group Stealing Crypto It now...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] AirDAO is a community-governed layer-one blockchain with a suite of web3 dApps accessible through the AirDAO Dashboard, all powered by the AMB token. The upgraded AirDAO Tokenomics lays out the changes coming to AirDAO throughout 2023. The tokenomics upgrade assures the success of the next phase of AirDAO and kickstarts the transition to community-based governance with the implementation of DAO voting. The update to the rewards...

The past seven days saw Bitcoin’s price increase by a whopping 10% in a few violent green candles that took place in the span of a couple of days. This brought a lot of positivity to the industry, and the total capitalization is also up by about $100 billion. At the time of this writing, BTC trades at around $24K, but it managed to paint a fresh high of above $25K for the first time since the summer of 2022. This has also had an impact on the entire market, as most of the...