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The FTX founder was grilled Monday by a prosecutor, who used the many words he said to journalists after his crypto company's collapse against him. origin »
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Koh Seung-beom, the nominee for South Korea’s Financial Service Commission (FSC), said that he does not see cryptocurrencies as a financial asset. FSC Nominee Says Crypto Not a Financial Asset According to the Korean Times on Wednesday (August 25, 2021), Seung-beom made the statement while speaking with journalists. Seung-beom, who is a board member ofRead More
2021-8-26 04:00 | |
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Edward Snowden, the notorious American whistleblower, has confirmed he relied on the censorship resistance of Bitcoin to help leak data to journalists in 2013. Snowden made headlines across the globe after leaking highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) when he was a CIA employee and subcontractor.
2019-6-27 14:16 | |
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Twitter is considered to be a handy tool for journalists looking to stay on top of the news – I”ve written some great news stories based on tips and leads from the social network. However, I’m always bummed out that Twitter’s lists feature, that lets me curate different feeds to cater to my interest, is buried deep in the app and is hard to access.
2019-6-26 10:52 | |
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Facing immense pressure, YouTube has said it will reexamine its harassment policies and update them. The company said it will do so in “consultation with experts, creators, journalists and those who have, themselves, been victims of harassment.
2019-6-6 10:57 | |
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Ethereum co-founder and ConsenSys creator Joseph Lubin said that blockchain can give artists more control over content and make journalism more ethical
2019-3-14 04:40 | |
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A $9 billion USD money laundering scandal was recently uncovered by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a group of investigative journalists. The scandal involved Troika, the largest private bank of Russia.
2019-3-7 00:09 | |
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has responded to criticisms about betraying the values of Bitcoin and crypto more broadly with its recent acquisition of Neutrino. Those Neutrino team members who previously worked at Hacking Team will “transition out of Coinbase,” the chief executive said late Monday.
2019-3-5 22:20 | |
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Coinbase’s Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, said in an interview last week that, in part, the exchange acquired controversial software firm Neutrino because its prior blockchain analysis providers were selling customer data.
2019-3-5 23:58 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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NSA’s whistleblower, who previously stated he used bitcoin to pay for VPN and other activities prior to leaking surveillance documents to journalists, said in a recent interview that there is.
2018-11-21 17:42 | |
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Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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Civil, an Ethereum-based platform with a heady bid to save journalism, has partnered with Forbes to help the 100-year-old publisher keep its stories free from meddling hands.
2018-10-10 01:59 | |
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NEM Co-founder Says that Safety is What Sets It Apart from Ethereum NEM co-founder, Jeff McDonald, took some light jabs at Ethereum and in general, smart contracts, talking about the difference between his blockchain platform, NEM, and Ethereum.
2018-9-25 21:42 | |
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The Distributed 2018 conference that recently took place in San Francisco was accompanied by a new edition of the Distributed Dialogues podcast, a collaborative show between the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network and Distributed Magazine.
2018-8-4 23:48 | |
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The blockchain might also allow Civil to conduct an experiment in decentralized governance using an ethereum-based ERC-20 token. The “game” hasn’t begun yet, but Coolidge said that a sale of the CVL crypto token is “imminent.
2018-7-7 18:54 | |
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The Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) now officially accepts donations made with cryptocurrencies, the non-profit announced Monday. The move is “a natural fit” for the organization, which aims to support journalists reporting on issues within governments, said executive director Trevor Timm.
2018-6-19 21:29 | |
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed to appeal his conviction and sentence for fraud and conspiracy charges on Thursday, hours before his deadline to do so.
A federal judge sentenced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to a quarter-century in prison Thursday.
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers have pushed back against the U.S. government's sentencing memo which makes the case for why it thinks the former FTX CEO should be handed a sentence in the range of 40-50 years, a court filing on Wednesday shows.
Sam Bankman-Fried's defense team pushed back against what it called the "disturbing" sentencing memorandum filed by the Department of Justice last week in a new letter, saying the DOJ was making the FTX founder out to be someone he was not.
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), arguably the crypto industry's most important advocate in the U.S. Congress, has decided not to seek another term, sources told Politico on Tuesday.
The world's largest asset manager already made waves by seeking to list a bitcoin ETF
Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the powerful Southern District of New York, set an ominous warning following the conviction of former crypto kingpin Bankman-Fried.