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The Federal Service in the USA arrested a Russian-Swedish citizen Roman Sterlingov on suspicion of laundering nearly $336M in bitcoin for the last 10 years. The criminal will appear in court and face three charges – money laundering, money laundering without authorization, and unlicensed money transmission. The Fraud Over The Last 10 Years According to a recent report, US officials have arrested the leader of Bitcoin Fog – Roman Sterlingov. The Russian-Swedish admin of the...

An anonymous buyer purchased a signed football card of Tom Brady for about $1.68M worth of LTC at an auction presented by Goldin Auctions. The company revealed that this is the most expensive item to be paid in cryptocurrency since it started accepting such payments. LTC in Exchange for a Football Card Cryptocurrencies have intertwined with American football as Goldin Auctions revealed a massive purchase at their auction with one of the most popular digital assets. The...

The Chairman of the Federal Reserve outlined that the US will not haste its own digital currency project despite China’s rapid advancements. He revealed that the CBDC approach undertaken by the Asian country will not be effective in the USA. China’s CBDC Won’t Work in the US With the rapidly expanding topic of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in countless countries, the world’s largest economy is yet to provide a definitive stance. Although the US dollar remains the...

Despite Ethereum’s increasing price, the Canadian TV personality and well-known investor Kevin O’Leary predicted ”it’s always going to be N.2” to Bitcoin. Mr. Wanderful also opined that the first-ever cryptocurrency will serve as gold, while ETH will be silver. Ethereum’s Rally vs. O’Leary’s Forecast The second-largest cryptocurrency has been blooming recently. Its price reached an ATH today and traded at around $2,800. Relative to bitcoin, ETH has significantly increased its...

Should Ripple prevail in its ongoing legal battle against the SEC, the payment processor will join the trend of crypto-related companies going public, said the CEO of SBI Group – one of the largest shareholders in the firm.   During an earnings presentation call, SBI Group’s CEO, Yoshitaka Kitao, spoke about the relationship between the entity he runs and the blockchain-based payment processor – Ripple.  As previously reported, Ripple has legal troubles in the US as the...

Germany’s Financial Supervisory Authority is investigating Binance for its offering of tokenized shares and is already holding a preliminary opinion that doesn’t look too encouraging for the world’s leading crypto exchange. According to a legal opinion published on its official website, the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht —or simply BaFin— considers that Binance would be violating securities laws by issuing shares of publicly traded companies like Tesla,...

Facebook’s quarterly SEC filing has no mention of Bitcoin, let alone of a Bitcoin purchase, defying market expectations. For a few days leading up to Facebook’s earnings reported today, there was talk that the world’s most famous social network was about to purchase billions of dollars in Bitcoins: those rumors turned out to be precisely that – just rumors. Why did people think Facebook was about to buy Bitcoin? Several news outlets, including leading sources such as FOX, ran...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that had put the VanEck Bitcoin ETF proposal up for discussion in March has made a filing confirming that the decision will be delayed for a 45 day period. The Implications of a Bitcoin ETF As of now, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust holds a virtual monopoly when it comes to institutional money that is invested indirectly into cryptocurrencies. Grayscale’s trust is used by institutions for various regulatory reasons...

Polygon, an easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development, has recently launched a $100 million fund intended to improve the accessibility of the decentralized finance (DeFi) space to more users. According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the fund, known as “#DeFiforAll,” is geared toward effectively introducing millions of users to the various decentralized products and platforms available. Polygon’s Fund to Support DeFi for 3 Years The...

$50 million worth of various cryptocurrencies has disappeared from the automated market maker platform running on the Binance Smart Chain – Uranium Finance. While the team behind the project claims the funds were stolen, the cryptocurrency community speculates of a possible rug pull. $50M Gone From Uranium Finance The DeFi project took it to Twitter today to explain the exploit which targeted its v2.1 token migration event. More specifically, Uranium argued that the hackers...