XRP Case: Ripple and SEC May Have Had Secret Settlement, Believes Lawyer

Pro-XRP lawyer breaks down how Ripple and SEC could have had private settlement

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Ripple vs. SEC showdown 'over soon': Potential settlement on the horizon?

Ripple’s case could end in days or weeks if they enter a private agreement with the SEC.   More bettors and Options traders expected XRP to dip below $2 by the end of March.   In February,The post Ripple vs.

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MicroStrategy's Saylor Reveals What Bitcoin (BTC) Really Is

Michael Saylor recently affirmed what Bitcoin is really, responding to DOJ's claim that money is not private property in legal case

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$147b financial group Oddo will enter stablecoin market with Fireblocks

Paris-based asset manager and private banking services Oddo will collaborate with Fireblocks to enter the stablecoin market. Oddo BHF SCA brought an initiative to increase the use case of euro-dominated stablecoin by working with a crypto technology firm. This project…

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SEC and DOJ back Nvidia investor lawsuit over alleged crypto sales misrepresentation

The case underscores the critical role of private securities litigation in ensuring transparency and accountability in tech and crypto sectors. The post SEC and DOJ back Nvidia investor lawsuit over alleged crypto sales misrepresentation appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Apple’s legal woes mount as vulnerability threatening crypto security comes to light

Academic researchers have unearthed a significant vulnerability within Apple’s M-series computing chips, potentially jeopardizing the security of private crypto keys. On the same day, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an antitrust case against the iPhone maker, alleging monopoly practices detrimental to consumers, developers, and competitors.

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SEC crypto attorney departs for private firm

The SEC’s crypto and cyber litigation unit leader has resigned from the commission to join legal firm White & Case after contributing to lawsuits against two digital asset powerhouses. 

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XRP to $1? SEC Announces Closed Meeting, Fueling Speculation Of Upcoming Settlement In Ripple Case

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XRP Case: SEC Announces Private Meeting, Investors Await Ripple Lawsuit Settlement

SEC's private meeting adds intrigue to Ripple case as XRP community awaits settlement

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SBF Trial: Grounded private jets worth combined $70M may be forfeit in Bankman-Fried trial

Federal prosecutors filed a forfeiture bill of particulars on Oct. 5 specifying assets subject to forfeiture in the criminal case against cryptocurrency executive Samuel Bankman-Fried. The filing in New York federal court listed two private jets prosecutors say are subject to forfeiture — a Bombardier Global 5000 and an Embraer Legacy.

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Private Equity Giant David Rubenstein Makes the Case for Bitcoin

Billionaire private equity titan David Rubenstein believes Bitcoin (BTC) is here to stay thanks to growing institutional interest as evidenced by BlackRock’s application for a spot bitcoin ETF as well as general global demand for a form of money that can’t be controlled by governments.

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Proposed gag order in SBF’s criminal case under review, citing attempt to ‘influence public opinion’

The proposal followed a complaint filed by U.S. authorities alleging Sam Bankman-Fried had leaked Caroline Ellison’s private journals in an attempt to interfere with the trial.

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SBF Accused of Leaking Caroline Ellison's Private Diary by U.S. DOJ

The U.S. DOJ also wants to ban the disgraced founder of FTX and all parties involved in the FTX case from making any out of court statements in the future.

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Reclusive Binance co-founder Yi He speaks on SEC case

Binance’s famously private co-founder and CMO, Yi He, commented on the company’s regulatory standing in an interview published by Bloomberg on June 28. Yi He discusses regulations In several interviews, Yi He commented on regulatory challenges, noting: “If [regulators] really took the time to understand our industry, they would see that if Binance isn’t compliant, […] The post Reclusive Binance co-founder Yi He speaks on SEC case appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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‘Killer use case’: Citi says trillions in assets could be tokenized by 2030

The bank predicts the private equity market to become the most “tokenized” asset class because it is more liquid and can be fractionalized.

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Labeling Private NFTs As Securities Is Unreasonable, Says Lawyer

The ongoing dispute over Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shots NFTs status has sparked comments from lawyers and observers. The case started with a class action lawsuit filed by plaintiff Jeeun Friel in May 2021, alleging that Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shots NFTs were unregistered securities.

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Crypto Users' Private Keys Now Protected by Law, But There's a Catch

Wyoming legislators have passed bill that protects right of every person to keep their private keys undisclosed, except for one case

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Privacy Isn’t Just an Edge Case for Crypto

Financial privacy is useful for dissidents in extreme situations. But nobody should have to justify keeping their personal lives private, says our columnist.

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Crypto Prices Are Fanned by Flawed Economics and Conspiracy Theories; CBDCs Are Immune: Bank of Finland Governor

While making a case for digital euro, Bank of Finland governor Olli Rehn said that CBDCs won't be subject to price volatility of private cryptos.

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The case for Decentralized Private Networks over traditional VPNs

When the internet was introduced in the 1990s, it was a new way for people to access information and connect globally. The post The case for Decentralized Private Networks over traditional VPNs appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Global Finance SD Announces Private Sale and Roadmap for 2022/2023

Since the advent of cryptocurrencies, there has been a contention between the industry and the traditional monetary system. This doesn’t have to be the case, and Global Finance SD was created just to prove this.

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Telegram Sued by Investment Firm Over GRAM Token Refunds

Russian private equity fund Da Vinci Capital is suing messaging app Telegram for issues related to refund of investments in the Telegram Open Network (TON). The case will be heard in London. The post Telegram Sued by Investment Firm Over GRAM Token Refunds appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Shield Finance Closes Private Funding Round to Bring Insurance to DeFi

The next generation of decentralized finance protocols and services will need to offer better security and protection to users. Insurance packages are currently a novelty in the industry, but that may not be the case for much longer.

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India may give crypto holders an “exit window” in case of Bitcoin ban

India’s officials are currently discussing the possibility of providing an “exit window” that would allow crypto holders to get rid of their assets ahead of the potential ban on all “private” digital currencies, The Indian Express reported today.

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Deposition of Craig Wright’s Wife Shows Little Understanding of Bitcoin Private Keys

According to a court filing on June 30, the Kleiman v. Wright case has postponed the jury trial until October 13 in the Miami Division courthouse. Meanwhile, a deposition stemming from Craig Wright’s wife, Ramona Watts, shows that she has little understanding of how Bitcoin works after being married to the self-proclaimed ‘cryptocurrency inventor’ for […] The post Deposition of Craig Wright’s Wife Shows Little Understanding of Bitcoin Private Keys appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Bitcoin SV Drops 40% as Lawyer Admits Craig Wright Has No Private Keys

Craig Wright court case sparks heavy losses for Bitcoin SV investors, while Bitcoin consolidates its January gains

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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.

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Bitcoin Use Case Underlined by Indian Bank PMC Woes

In recent months, authorities in India have been investigating the management of a major private bank, Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank, for fraud, amounting to $600 million. The investigation has left nearly 1 million bank customers without access to their funds – the sort of situation that could be avoided with Bitcoin-related financial services.

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How Bitcoin’s Lightning Can Be Used for Private Messaging

Bitcoin's lightning network might have a use case beyond faster and more scalable payments, thanks to an experimental version called Whatsat.

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3 Reasons Why Bitfinex LEO Token has Flopped

As we’ve seen from powerhouse examples like Binance’s BNB, exchange tokens can often make promising returns for investors. However, that has not been the case with the Bitfinex’s LEO token.

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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3

Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.

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The case against traditional passwords — and how biometrics can better secure us

Passwords have been around for millennia. Thousands of years before the advent of the computer, the Roman military would use what Polybius described as a watchword to distinguish ally from enemy.

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Mobile malware campaign targeting Uyghur Muslims impacted Tibetans too

The mobile malware campaign targeting the Uyghur Muslim minority in China was also directed at senior members of Tibetan groups, according to new research. The details — disclosed by University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and TechCrunch — reveal that the targets were sent specifically tailored malicious web links over WhatsApp, which, when opened, exploited browser vulnerabilities on iOS and Android devices to install spyware, and surreptitiously stole private and sensitive information.

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Defunct Crypto Exchange QuadrigaCX Headlines Continue; Canadian Revenue Agency Begin’s Tax Audit

A new authority joins the investigative search on Quadriga CX, bankrupt digital asset exchange that lost over $190 million USD of customer’s funds. Ever since the Quadriga CX case broke out, whereby the Canadian digital asset exchange CEO, Gerald Cotton, reportedly died in India taking to the grave the private keys of users’ funds, a […]

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The World’s First Public Blockchain with Secret Contracts is Making its Case

Ever since the global interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain soared in 2017, the debate pinning public and private blockchains against one another in the context of practical adoption has persisted.

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Tron-backed BTFS could fill the void left by GitHub’s geo-blocking

In what seems like a recurring theme, the crypto-ecosystem is finding itself at home within restricted geographies and business verticals by leveraging its “uncontrollable decentralized and private” nature to the fullest.

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Libra: Friend or Foe? Worst Case Scenario Post-Congressional Hearings

Facebook is in the hot seat this week, as Congress asks burning questions about the company’s Libra “cryptocurrency. ” I use quotes, because in the purest sense, a cryptocurrency is decentralized, trustless, and permissionless.

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CHEAP: [inner peace] > this can be yours with $100 off Sony’s WH1000XM3 headphones

Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Honestly, noise-canceling headphones are a must today. Noisy plane-rides become yesterday’s problems and awfully loud co-working spaces turn into your own private zen garden.

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Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.

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Blockstream Releases First Enterprise-Grade Product on Liquid

Security tokens are coming to Bitcoin, courtesy of Blockstream. The Bitcoin and blockchain technology company announced on May 15, 2019, the final day of the Consensus 2019 conference, that Liquid Securities, a platform for issuing and managing security tokens on its Liquid sidechain, is ready to go live.

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This Latest ‘Who Created Bitcoin’ Theory is The Craziest One Yet

Bitcoin was the creation of a programmer and drug lord who wanted to launder money, and Craig Wright is trying to steal his private keys. Bitcoin Creator, Solotshi Nakamoto? That was the latest wild conclusion to emerge in the debate over who the ‘real’ inventor of Bitcoin is – the entity behind the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym – as Wright’s multibillion-dollar court case continues.

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Control as Liability

The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”.

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VeKey by VeChain is a Multi-Signature Hardware and Software Solution for Private Key Management

Ever since the QuadrigaCX case opened up to the public, the risks of blockchain technology are becoming a huge topic for conversation around cryptocurrency circles. The loss of over $190 million USD of users’ funds due to the lack of a private key to the cold wallet storage highlights these types of risks a blockchain […]

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Bitcoin Core 0.18.0 Release: Here’s What’s New

Today, May 2, 2019, marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 18. 0, the 18th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakomoto almost 10 years ago, and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.

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Mt. Gox Is Automatically Filing Unregistered Creditors for Reimbursement

If you’re a creditor in Mt. Gox’s civil rehabilitation case, the defunct exchange may have automatically filed and approved a reimbursement claim for you — provided that your Mt.

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Five Years in the Making, Bisq Exchange Launches Its Bitcoin DAO

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.

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On Free Speech

“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.

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On Collusion

Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.

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CoolWallet S Review: An ‘Everyday’ Wallet for Crypto?

The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.

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