2022-8-11 00:23 |
The exchange’s sister company has been hit with several investigations over who uses its platform and the state of its reserves. origin »
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Three Binance compliance officers give a fiery response to allegations of illicit activity, sanctions evasion and darknet links.
2022-8-2 03:42 | |
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The United States Treasury Department suspects that crypto exchange Kraken has violated the United States sanctions by allowing users from sanctioned regions to trade digital tokens and opened a federal investigation to reveal the truth, The New York Times reported.
2022-7-29 21:13 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC/USD) is up 3.2% in the past 24 hours to currently trade around $21,671 and ease off lows seen on Tuesday when a number of negative news reports impacted sentiment. After hitting intraday lows of $20,780 on Tuesday amid reports of SEC investigations against crypto exchange Coinbase, and a Treasury Department probe on Kraken, […] The post Analyst: Bitcoin is headed for resistance amid FOMC bounce appeared first on Invezz.
2022-7-27 21:19 | |
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Coinbase released the first part of its Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC)-featured movie yesterday night. This comes a few days after the SEC launched investigations into the crypto exchange for allegedly issuing digital assets that should have been listed as securities.
2022-7-27 14:06 | |
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Coinbase clarified that the crypto exchange was not selling its users’ data and highlighted that it only provides information for investigations of financial crimes.
2022-7-1 11:25 | |
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Celsius Network is in communication with United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
2022-6-17 15:53 | |
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Today, Congress of the United States sent an official inquiry letter to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) chair Gary Gensler. The post The U.S. Congress inquires the SEC on crypto-related investigations appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-3-18 23:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency operator Circle receives a summons from the U. S Security and Exchange (SEC) concerning investigations. According to filings from the company, it agreed to cooperate with the regulators regarding the investigations fully.
2021-10-6 01:00 | |
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Europol Dark Web Specialist joins crypto exchange Binance, to head up internal and external investigations, and to protect user funds. The post Europol Dark Web Specialist Joins Binance appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-9-18 17:00 | |
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has asked the court to order Ripple to submit its employees' Slack communication app history. SEC Requests Access To Over 1 Million Messages SEC's attorney Jorge Tenreiro filed a motion seeking access to over 1 million messages sent by Ripple's employees.
2021-8-10 18:21 | |
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Some of those caught up in an alleged $3.6 billion crypto Ponzi scheme are refusing to aid police investigations as they still expect to triple their investments.
2021-6-10 07:40 | |
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A new twist to the Ripple vs. SEC case has come to the fore. SEC’s New Filing Fatal To Its Claims In response to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s lawsuit against blockchain firm Ripple Labs, co-defendants Brad Garlinghouse and Chairman Chris Larsen have requested that the regulatory agency carry out investigations on crypto exchanges […] The post Ripple Requests Assistance From Offshore Bitcoin Exchanges In Its Ongoing Lawsuit first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-6-3 17:37 | |
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Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance is facing investigations from the U.S. government
2021-5-14 19:55 | |
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The crypto portfolio tracker Blockfolio, owned by the exchange FTX, got its messaging system compromised, as racist notifications started to appear. Blockfolio’s users received the offensive messages with a warning that they’re about to lose all funds.
2021-2-11 06:30 | |
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Troubled China-based crypto exchange OKEx is set to resume its withdrawal services starting Friday after a successful withdrawal test by the exchange. According to the reports, the exchange’s funds were locked beginning November 16th as one of the ‘private-key holders’ was held to help Chinese authorities in investigations.
2020-11-24 21:39 | |
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A civil lawsuit alleges that BitMEX’s co-founders directed roughly $440 million away from the exchange despite knowledge of investigations. It also suggests that the funds were moved to limit seizure by authorities.
2020-11-2 17:12 | |
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Major Chinese cryptocurrency exchange OKEx suspended withdrawals indefinitely, revealing in a statement that one of its key holders has not been available because they are “currently cooperating with a public security bureau in investigations”.
2020-10-16 13:20 | |
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Miller Thomson, the Canadian law firm appointed to represent clients of the failed QuadrigaCX exchange, has hired consultancy services from Kroll to advance forensic investigations into the roughly $200 million loss in assets.
2020-9-9 17:47 | |
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Coinspeaker Seoul Conducts Second Raid on Crypto Exchange BithumbThe previous police raid came after Seoul police allegedly directed initial investigations at Bithumb office on September 2.
2020-9-8 17:57 | |
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One of Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is under investigation after the Seoul Metropolitan Police found evidence of wash trading of over 99% of its volumes. According to local reports from Seoul Shinmun, the police have seized Coinbit exchange headquarters in Gangnam district and some property around the country as investigations continue.
2020-8-26 19:46 | |
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GPay Limited, which traded as XtraderFX (formerly CryptoPoint) has been shut down by UK authorities following investigations into its practices. The firm has been on the radar of the Financial Conduct Authority for over two years.
2020-7-4 23:00 | |
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Nearly two years ago, the Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck suffered from a major hack. During that incident, millions of dollars worth of NEM currency were taken by criminals. Despite several investigations, not all of that money was retrieved.
2020-3-15 06:00 | |
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According to a press release issued on March 10, 2020, South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange platform Bithumb has joined forces with blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis firm to embrace the latter’s investigations solution – Chainalysis Reactor.
2020-3-12 18:00 | |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now reaching out to QuadrigaCX victims via email in what appears to be confirmation that the federal agency has started carrying out investigations to try and establish what could have led to the collapse of the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange platform.
2020-1-16 19:53 | |
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The publication of crypto exchange Kraken’s 2019 Transparency Report has provoked discussion about the scale of government surveillance. According to the report, Kraken received 710 requests last year (or two per day), impacting approximately 1,222 accounts.
2020-1-8 04:30 | |
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The law firm that represents the users of the collapsed QuadrigaCX crypto exchange have asked the investigating authorities to confirm the death of former CEO by exhuming and conducting forensic investigations of his body, CoinDesk reports.
2019-12-14 22:44 | |
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The British Columbia Securities Commission has taken control of a cryptocurrency exchange which allegedly owes customers over $12 million. Einstein Exchange had planned to shut down amid complaints, lawsuits, and money laundering investigations.
2019-11-6 10:30 | |
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In mid-January this year, popular New Zealand crypto exchange, Cryptopia announced its hack which saw users lose crypto assets valued at $16 million USD (which could currently be much higher). After several investigations, court proceedings and pleas for bankruptcy in the U.
2019-10-7 15:47 | |
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The ongoing bankruptcy proceedings against the now defunct crypto exchange QuadrigaCX may be moved to the city of Toronto to make investigations easier. The move would come at the request of the trustee overseeing the bankruptcy, Ernst and Young.
2019-8-28 01:00 | |
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Agencies to include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, an Australian investigative agency, and an unnamed agency have opened separate investigations into the defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX.
2019-8-28 23:40 | |
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According to a press release by the U. S Securities and Exchange Commission, Robert A. Cohen, Chief of the Division of Enforcement’s Cyber Unit, has resigned from the SEC and will be leaving the organization in August.
2019-7-30 20:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX is being investigated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter, the CFTC is looking into whether BitMEX broke the rules by allowing American customers to trade on the platform, which is not registered with the agency.
2019-7-19 15:06 | |
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U. S. citizen Morgan Rockcoons has been sentenced to fines and prison time for running unlicensed money exchange services on LocalBitcoins. Advertising himself on the peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network, Rockcoons made more than 1,000 transactions with hundreds of different users.
2019-6-1 18:55 | |
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Cryptopia, a cryptocurrency exchange with headquarters in New Zealand, has suspended trading services and released a press statement on May 15 stating that it is in liquidation. The latest development comes less than six months after the exchange lost millions through hacking.
2019-5-15 17:59 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Vincent He. Since May 1, 2019, bitcoin’s price has been rising, reaching a top of over $6,000. As the whole cryptocurrency industry was enjoying the rise, an unexpected hack put a stop to the rise of bitcoin.
2019-5-10 18:48 | |
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The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau within the U. S. Department of the Treasury, has imposed its first-ever penalty on a peer-to-peer crypto exchange for violating AML regulations, among other violations.
2019-4-20 23:38 | |
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Bitcoin trader Jacob Burrell Campos was sentenced on April 8, 2019, to serve a two-year prison sentence and to forfeit more than $800,000 “for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.
2019-4-13 18:54 | |
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A site called TheTie released a report today that estimates over 86% of all reported Bitcoin exchange volume is suspicious, while 75% of exchanges report extremely dubious volumes. The research uses a different formula than other reports have: it values each website’s visitors and compares that value to the reported figures.
2019-3-19 23:53 | |
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On Feb. 20, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase gave the public an inside look at how the company deals with contentious forks. Coinbase engineer Breck Stodghill specifically discussed how the trading platform dealt with the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) split on November 15, 2018.
2019-2-22 18:42 | |
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New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia disclosed that local police have allowed employees to return to the firm’s office following its suspension of operations mid last month after a multi-million dollar security breach.
2019-2-15 18:53 | |
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Exchange and wallet providers will collect and store user data to ease the process of possible investigations.
2019-1-22 20:49 | |
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The problem of transaction volume fraud is a serious one among cryptocurrency exchanges. Many exchanges have been accused in the past of inflating the volume of their exchanges to attract customers and make a higher profit.
2019-1-20 20:53 | |
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Beginning the 13th of January, users of the New Zealand based cryptocurrency exchange of Cryptopia started experiencing technical difficulties with their accounts. The exchange went on to announce via twitter that they were carrying out an unscheduled maintenance to sort out the issue.
2019-1-15 13:08 | |
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According to Chinese state media, the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges have carried out investigations into 30 percent of companies listed on their exchanges that are performing operations pertaining to distributed ledger technology (DLT).
2018-12-27 18:15 | |
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During a conversation at the Bitcoin Podcast, WhatBitcoinDid, Peter McCormack talked about Bitcoin (BTC) and XRP and what they mean for people. He mentioend that Ripple created Ripplecoin and kept some coins for themselves and pumped the price with lies.
2018-12-10 22:18 | |
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Steven Peikin, co-director of the enforcement division of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), recently described international cooperation as playing a critical role in facilitating investigations in the initial coin offering (ICO) sector.
2018-12-7 12:10 | |
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The recent quarterly filings from Riot Blockchain show that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigations into the company are “still ongoing. ” The SEC issued a subpoena to the company on April 9 calling for a formal investigation.
2018-11-22 18:59 | |
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It seems US authorities aren’t yet done with controversial cryptocurrency Tether. The ‘USD-backed’ stablecoin is now being probed by the country’s Justice Department, according to a Bloomberg report.
2018-11-20 15:00 | |
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The Labour government said the bill will give owners of bitcoin and other digital assets greater legal protection.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Tulip Siddiq as the City Minister, a role that oversees financial services including crypto.
Taiwan's crypto advocacy body, the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider Association, has been formally established and the founding meeting held with 24 cryptocurrency-related entities.
The exchange could return as a FIU-registered firm after paying the fine, the report added.
This is the third test for the Province's new tool to combat money laundering.
The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.
India's most controversial crypto tax, the 1% TDS levy deducted at source, should be lowered to 0.01%, according to the findings of a new study.