Germany has told leading digital currency exchange Binance that its regulators will not issue a crypto custody license to the firm’s executives. Germany Denies Binance Proper Licensure The country is not pleased, allegedly, with the way Binance is handling itself. The company has been on the brink of making every financial agency angry and it has already aroused the wrath of institutions such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities...
Read More »Hayden Adams on the Success of Crypto Firm Uniswap
Uniswap is a crypto firm that started about five years ago. The company introduced the world to the automated market maker (AMM). The tool works to let people swap currencies on various exchanges and networks without the aid of middlemen. Uniswap Has Come a Long Way The company has grown into something nobody was expecting. Uniswap now processes about $1 trillion in blockchain transactions on various networks. In a recent interview, the company’s CEO Hayden Adams...
Read More »Could the SEC Lawsuit End Binance for Good? Analysts Weigh In
Could a crypto world exist without Binance? Many analysts and traders are weighing in on this subject given the world’s largest digital currency exchange is facing a huge lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Could Binance Come to an End? Not long ago, the SEC filed charges against Binance and claimed the company had broken securities laws for many years. It also said Binance had commingled company funds with those of customers. The exchange...
Read More »New Japan Laws Will Put Limits on Crypto Taxation
Japan just established a whole new level of clarity to its crypto tax agenda. Up to this point, all unrealized gains from crypto assets were subjected to the country’s present 30 percent corporate tax rate, though now, it appears this is coming to an end. Japan is Putting an End to Some Crypto Taxation The news came from Japan’s National Tax Agency (NTA). The agency explained in a statement that crypto assets will be excluded from any company’s asset valuation...
Read More »Coin Ex Settles Suit in New York, Vows to Leave the U.S.
Coin Ex is a digital currency exchange based in Hong Kong. Not long ago, the company was faced with a lawsuit from New York Attorney General Leticia James, who said the firm had violated various financial laws and put traders and investors in danger. Coin Ex Settles, Set to Exit America Now, it looks like Coin Ex has agreed to settle with James for nearly $2 million to get the suit off its back. In addition, the company is also ceasing all its U.S. operations, and...
Read More »Kevin O’Leary: It’s Time for Coinbase to Get a New CEO
Kevin O’Leary – a wealthy investor and the star of the show “Shark Tank” – says it’s time for the current CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, to be fired, and that a new CEO that will work hand in hand with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should be brought aboard. Kevin O’Leary on the Coinbase Lawsuit Not long ago, the SEC announced plans to sue Coinbase, claiming it was operating as an unregistered broker. O’Leary believes it’s time to take Armstrong...
Read More »The SEC is Making Crypto Investors (and Platforms) Very Nervous
Many crypto investors are working hard to get rid of their altcoins out of fear that several of them are going to get delisted thanks to ongoing action from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). SEC Action is Making Traders Wary The financial agency has been working hard to practically eliminate crypto altogether from the American monetary spectrum. There have already been multiple lawsuits filed against some of the nation’s leading digital currency...
Read More »Identities of Former FTX Customers Can Stay Private, Judge Says
The identities of customers affected by last November’s FTX collapse can stay hidden per a bankruptcy judge in Delaware. Judge John Dorsey – the man overseeing the case involving the now notorious exchange’s asset liquidation process – says all names of former traders associated with the firm fall under the category of “trade secrets.” FTX Customers Can Stay Out of the Public Eye He explained in a recent interview: It’s the customers that are the most important...
Read More »Law Professor Yuliya Guseva on the Binance, Ripple, and Coinbase Lawsuits
Do the present lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase raise any red flags? A law professor at Rutgers University named Yuliya Guseva believes they do, and she thinks it’s highly unlikely nations like the U.S. will be able to dole out proper regulation before financial agencies do irreparable damage. Yuliya Guseva on the State of Crypto in America In a recent interview, Guseva said: The future of crypto-asset regulation in the U.S. is not fully predictable. Right...
Read More »Charges Laid Out Against Two Men in Mt. Gox Case
Has justice arrived in the Mt. Gox case? Perhaps that’s the scenario as after nearly ten years, two Russian men have been charged with conspiring to steal more than 600,000 bitcoin units. Is the Mt. Gox Case Coming to an End? The federal government has laid charges out against Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner. They’re accused of conspiring to launder as much as 647,000 BTC funds stolen from the exchange. At the time of the theft, these units would have been...
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