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Samuel Reed – one of three co-founders of the BitMEX crypto exchange – has joined his colleagues Arthur Hayes and Benjamin Delo in pleading guilty to disobeying the Bank Secrecy Act’s anti-money laundering provisions. BitMEX is based in the East African Seychelles Archipelago, north of Madagascar. Founded in 2014, it facilitates the trading of cryptocurrency and related derivatives products. Like Hayes and Delo last month, Reed has pleaded guilty to “willfully failing to...

Yoon Suk-Yeol – a member of the Conservative party – won the South Korean presidential election. The new political leader of the East Asian country has demonstrated a pro-crypto stance. Not long ago, he vowed to increase the minimum threshold for paying capital gains tax on profits from digital asset investments. South Korea to Become a Crypto Hub? The presidential election was one of the most contested in the history of South Korea. Yoon Suk-Yeol – a 61-year-old former...

International Women’s Day is a day dedicated to uplifting women and honoring their achievements. One of the many reasons it was born is women’s constant fight for labor rights throughout history. Even today, gender discrimination in the workplace is still causing significant damages to society. This year we focus on breaking this bias that women are constantly faced with. LBank joins women all over the world to say #BreaktheBias. As a leading global digital asset...

INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Mar. 3, 2022 – LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, will list TechPay Coin (TPC) on March 11, 2022. For all users of LBank Exchange, the TPC/USDT trading pair will be officially available for trading at 18:00 (UTC+8) on March 11, 2022. Public blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum suffer from issues such as high transaction fees and the lack of scalability. To solve persistent problems in existing public distributed ledger...

EOS price started a fresh increase from the $1.88 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $2.10 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a major bearish trend line with resistance near $1.975 on the 4-hours chart of the EOS/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could resume decline if it stays below the $2.10 resistance zone. EOS price is showing bearish signs below $2.10 against the US Dollar, unlike bitcoin. The...

Litecoin is struggling to clear the $110 resistance against the US Dollar. LTC price is now trading below $105 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a major bearish trend line with resistance near $106 on the 4-hours chart of the LTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could start a fresh decline if it fails to stay above the $100 support zone. Litecoin price is struggling below $110 against the US Dollar, similar to bitcoin. LTC...

On March 8, Cega Finance announced that it had raised $4.3 million in a seed round led by Dragonfly Capital Partners. There was also participation from various DeFi and crypto VCs, including Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, and Solana Ventures. The platform, founded by former UBS derivatives trader Arisa Toyosaki, now has a valuation of $60 million. Cega aims to build the next evolution in DeFi derivatives by introducing “exotic derivative capabilities”...

The Major Soccer League participant Nashville SC partnered with the digital asset investment manager Valkyrie Investments. The latter vowed to pay its sponsorship fee entirely in bitcoin. The First MSL Team to Accept BTC Sponsorship Payment One of the leading American soccer teams – Nashville SC – dived in the world of crypto by signing a deal with Valkyrie Investments. As part of the agreement, the Premier Club – located at Nashville SC’s stadium, will be renamed to Valkyrie...

Crypto regulation has long been a rather controversial topic. Traders and analysts everywhere seem to be split right down the middle on it. How Necessary Is Regulation? Some of the experts out there believe it’s completely necessary, and they’re all for it. Tally Greenberg – head of business development at All Nodes – explained in a recent interview: Regulations will come up and they must come up at some point, which would stabilize the market even further. That protects...

LimeWire was one of the many P2P filesharing companies that had earlier pushed illegal downloading of music onto the masses before shutting its operations in 2011 following lengthy court battles. But the now-defunct site is set to make a comeback this year as a music-focused NFT marketplace. LimeWire’s Comeback The new owners of the defunct LimeWire have revealed that it will be relaunched as an NFT marketplace. The focus will initially be on music and related collectibles....