Tag Archives: Exchange News

The Dutch Central Bank has thrown a $3.6 million penalty fee at Coinbase for allegedly failing to meet the region’s registration requirements prior to offering digital currency services in the Netherlands. Coinbase Hit with Huge Penalty Fee The bank says Coinbase has been operating on an unregistered basis since November of 2020. While the appropriate registration protocols were finally adhered to in September of 2022, the company went through a two-year period where it...

The FTX exchange, according to past testimony provided by its now disgraced founder and chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried, was initially designed as a way to merge both the crypto space and the traditional financial space together. FTX Started with Good Intentions In May of 2022, before the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, SBF said the following: [FTX] was established to build a digital asset trading platform and exchange with a better user experience, customer...

The Gemini exchange, which is based in New York and run by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss of “The Social Network” fame, is laying off another ten percent of its workforce and reducing its headcount by even more people. About 10% of Gemini Workers Are Saying “Bye” This is ultimately the third massive layoff stint the company has performed in the past year or so, though this is only the second one to be fully reported on. In the summer of last year, Gemini really caused a...

Not long ago, Live Bitcoin News reported that Genesis Global Capital – the lending division of the Digital Currency Group (DCG) – was preparing for bankruptcy. While it looked like the situation was inevitable, it was believed that there was potentially a small chance that the company was going to be able to survive its present ordeal. Sadly, it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen now as the firm has proceeded with its bankruptcy filing. Genesis Files Bankruptcy The...

Two months ago, Live Bitcoin News published an article discussing a new set of crypto regulations that were being unveiled by the state of New Jersey. Now, it appears New Hampshire is looking to follow in the region’s footsteps. Citing the FTX debacle as a massive wakeup call, New Hampshire is now looking to implement laws that will oversee trading and activity surrounding bitcoin and all related digital assets. New Hampshire Is Next to Implement Crypto Laws A new...

FTX may restart. That’s the crazy news for today, that one of the biggest crypto debacles could eventually turn itself around. The news has been greeted with positivity given that FTT – the native token of the now defunct crypto exchange – has risen by more than 35 percent at the time of writing. Could FTX Become Operational Again? Initially, the token was trading at about $1.83, though it has since risen to just over $2.50. John Ray III – the new CEO of the exchange who...

Just yesterday, Live Bitcoin News put out an article talking about a Russian crypto executive running an unlicensed money transmitting business. Known as Bitzlato, the crypto exchange was an unregistered trading platform for those who sought to use digital assets to obtain illicit products. The exchange also did very little to obtain necessary information about its clients and customers. Now, it looks like Binance – the world’s largest and most popular digital currency...

It’s happened again, folks. Another bankruptcy is in the crypto books. This time, the company that’s falling victim to alleged bankruptcy proceedings is Genesis, the crypto lending unit of the Digital Currency Group that has worked heavily with Gemini, a crypto exchange in New York run by the Winklevoss Twins. It Looks Like Genesis Will File for Bankruptcy The company is complaining of a “liquidity crunch” in recent posts. Does that sound familiar? If not, it should....

The panic surrounding FTX just got a lot bigger. As if the company doesn’t have enough problems to deal with, it is alleged that as much as $415 million in crypto funds were stolen from the exchange in a hack just after it began its bankruptcy proceedings. FTX Has Lost More Money Than Originally Reported The idea that FTX was attacked by cyberthieves is not new. Several sources have been talking about this for weeks, though initially, the stolen amount was believed to be...

Russian national Anatoly Legkodymov – the founder of a China-based cryptocurrency exchange who was believed to have been living in China for the past several years – was recently arrested while residing in Miami, Florida. He has been charged with running an unlicensed money transmitting firm. Anatoly Legkodymov Arrested in Miami The business in question is Bizlato Ltd. It is alleged that the company did not implement the necessary anti-money laundering requirements set...