2019-10-11 19:21 |
The latest lawsuit against Bitfinex and Tether highlights the need for better regulations across the stablecoin market
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As you may know, the New York Attorney General’s office (NYAG) is during a case against Bitfinex and Tether. The companies, which are a crypto exchange and a stablecoin provider, were accused of sharing money in an illegal way.
2019-8-3 19:23 | |
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Justice Joel Cohen of the New York Supreme Court extended the preliminary injunction against iFinex and Bitfinex for an extra 90 days. This means the company cannot access Tether’s financial reserves for their own use.
2019-7-30 16:37 | |
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New York Supreme Court Judge Joel M. Cohen has postponed issuing a decision on whether the Office of the New York Attorney General’s case against Bitfinex and Tether will stand. Judge Cohen Requests More Time As previously reported by Bitcoinist, Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s office has been enmeshed in a lengthy legal dispute over allegations that Bitfinex illegally conducted business activities in the state of New York.
2019-7-29 21:36 | |
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New York Supreme Court postpones its ruling on the case against Bitfinex and Tether, meaning that they can continue operating normally
2019-7-29 21:27 | |
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A New York judge has delayed making a decision on whether Bitfinex and Tether need to turn over documents to the state Attorney General.
2019-7-29 18:42 | |
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iFinex, the company that owns and operates Tether and Bitfinex, said that the claims made by the New York Attorney General’s office that the companies served New York residents throughout last year were “misleading.
2019-7-24 12:56 | |
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Tether (USDT) is now the most popular asset for buying Bitcoin (BTC), suggesting that the latest rally is fueled by existing rather than new cryptocurrency investors. In a report published today, U.
2019-7-16 18:32 | |
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Tether, the controversial stable coin has somehow learned the art of survival, especially at times when most of the community is betting against it. The stable coin has been at the center of numerous controversies right from the time of its inception.
2019-7-7 19:39 | |
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The Bitcoin community was relishing in the coin’s performance recently. However, other crypto-enthusiasts appeared skeptical of the king coin’s growth. The suspicion of Tether and Bitfinex’s involvement in the said surge constantly did the rounds, and with Tether Treasury printing USDT in the name of swaps, this suspicion was strengthened in the community.
2019-7-6 13:00 | |
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Facebook’s aim of building the next payment focused vision for the technology world began on a high. With the likes of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, and Uber backing Project Libra, the consortium looked set to tether together the finance-technology-crypto realms, but then, as all movie scripts go, a villain stepped forth.
2019-6-30 16:30 | |
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The USD-backed stablecoin of the Stably company- StableUSD-, has been added by Binance DEX as a native BEP2 crypto-asset under the name of USDSB. In a press release from Binance, the largest crypto exchange launched trading for two pairs comprising of USDSB against major stablecoin tether (USDT), as well as the USDSB-to-USDS trading pair today […]
2019-6-25 23:46 | |
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By CCN Markets: Over the past three months, the bitcoin price has risen from $3,911 to $8,120 against the U. S. dollar on major crypto exchanges, demonstrating strong momentum supplemented with a clear rise in volume.
2019-6-13 10:35 | |
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By CCN Markets: On June 6, author and chartist Peter Brandt (@PeterLBrandt) took to Twitter to share his bullish view on Ripple’s price action. In his tweet, he mentioned two cryptocurrencies flashing bullish signals against Tether US (USDT): Litecoin and Ripple.
2019-6-13 00:00 | |
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The Chief Financial Officer at Binance, Wei Zhou, confirmed that they are going to be releasing a new stablecoin in the next months. The main goal seems to compete against Tether(USDT), the largest stablecoin in the market.
2019-6-7 06:41 | |
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By CCN: According to Wei Zhou, the chief financial officer at Binance, the most widely utilized crypto asset trading platform in the global market, the exchange is planning to issue a stablecoin in the upcoming months, possibly to compete against Tether.
2019-6-6 15:14 | |
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Bitcoin Satoshi Vision [BSV], the eighth largest cryptocurrency, soared by over 16 percent earlier on May 29, with the coin reaching its all-time high of $198. 99 on Bittrex against Tether [USDT].
2019-5-30 20:40 | |
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By CCN: IOTA price has appreciated more than 11-percent against the US dollar and circa 13-percent against bitcoin in the last 24 hours. The internet-of-things cryptocurrency, which is also the world’s fifteenth largest by market capitalization, peaked towards $0.
2019-5-29 15:13 | |
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The cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex on May 23, 2019, had a sigh of relief amidst the ongoing Tether (USDT) controversy as it won a partial block on demands for information from the New York Attorney General (NYAG) Office, Bloomberg reports.
2019-5-24 01:00 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) ranging but stable A portion of Tether reserves was used to invest in Bitcoin (BTC) Tether and iFinex, the parent company, are controversial though they play a crucial role in the ecosystem.
2019-5-22 20:00 | |
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Explaining that their businesses have nothing to do with New York investors and that the New York attorney general has yet to identify any victim, Bitfinex and Tether asked that New York Supreme Court Judge Joel M.
2019-5-22 18:16 | |
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Lawyers representing renowned crypto exchange, Bitfinex, and its subsidiary stablecoin company, Tether, have ordered a motion to dismiss the case brought against them by the New York Attorney General’s Office.
2019-5-22 14:52 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and Tether have moved for a case dismissal of the suit pending against them by the New York Attorney General’s office. According to court filings on May 21, the lawyers of Bitfinex.
2019-5-22 03:56 | |
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Bitfinex Argues That Judge Should Dismiss NYAG Case The Bitfinex/Tether case has reached a new point right now. The representant for both companies has decided to ask the current judge of the case to dismiss the case created by the New York Attorney General against the company. What is their reason for this? The company […]
2019-5-22 01:06 | |
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Tether, a stablecoin tied to the dollar that is meant to mediate the volatility of other cryptocurrencies, is partly backed by bitcoin. As detailed in court documents obtained by The Block, Tether admitted to using some of the cash reserves meant to back its stablecoin to purchase bitcoin, among other assets.
2019-5-22 23:02 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether asked a judge to dismiss the New York Attorney General's case against the firms, claiming they have no customers in the state.
2019-5-22 22:49 | |
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Tether has been the center of rumors and speculation for a long time; however, the rumors and speculations reached a peak when NYAG, Letitia James, filed a lawsuit against Bitfinex and Tether for defrauding investors by covering up losses.
2019-5-21 20:53 | |
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Bitfinex is calling it a victory, but the exchange is still barred from using Tether as a line of credit.
2019-5-18 21:01 | |
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Bitfinex will list its LEO exchange token on Monday, trading against bitcoin, ether, EOS, tether and the U.S. dollar.
2019-5-18 19:08 | |
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Attorneys for Tether and Bitfinex are hoping to get the former access to its reserves amid a legal dispute with New York Office of the Attorney General (NYOAG). In a letter sent to the New York County Supreme Court, attorneys representing iFinex (the parent organization of Bitfinex) and Tether took issue with the restrictions that had been placed on Tether's transactions with related parties as part of an ongoing case against them, stating that the NYOAG had no basis for disallowing tether (USDT) holders and other affiliated entities from redeeming their tokens.
2019-5-16 18:51 | |
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The presiding judge over the New York OAG v. Bitfinex/Tether proceedings just ruled on Bitfinex’s ‘Motion to Vacate’ the OAG’s request for a preliminary injunction against them. That ruling can be found here: Bitfinex’s Motion to Vacate the OAG’s Request for Production of Documents Was Denied As a result of this order, the preliminary injunction that […]
2019-5-14 05:04 | |
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By CCN: The Bitfinex “mess” won’t be resolved anytime soon, charged Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin. His comments, which came on Thursday, come after a New York Supreme Court judge scathingly criticized the NY Attorney General who filed an injunction against Bitfinex and Tether.
2019-5-11 21:30 | |
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A New York judge has partially sided with Bitfinex and Tether in the ongoing court case
2019-5-7 14:00 | |
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The Bitfinex-Tether fiasco took a new turn after Bitfinex and Tether released an official response to the allegations made against it by the New York Attorney General’s office. Bitfinex’s and Tether’s parent company, iFinex, moved to vacate the court order, claiming that the order was based on ‘inaccurate or incorrect facts and wrong legal standard’.
2019-5-6 13:56 | |
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In a week where UK politicians spectacularly misread a huge swing in local election voting towards anti-Brexit parties, as “a clear message to deliver Brexit now,” let’s cast a more rational eye over the week’s happenings in Bitcoin news.
2019-5-5 18:00 | |
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By CCN. com: In the past 24 hours, the bitcoin price has increased by 6 percent against the U. S. dollar as the real spot volume of the dominant cryptocurrency spiked to $800 million. In the first week of March, the daily volume of bitcoin was estimated to be around $270 million.
2019-5-3 16:25 | |
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By CCN. com: In the past 24 hours, the bitcoin price has increased by just over 1 percent against the U. S. dollar, extending its year-to-date (YTD) gain to 44. 27 percent and leading the crypto market to recovery.
2019-5-2 12:48 | |
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The significance of stablecoins has been a hotly debated topic in the crypto community, splitting the opinions of major crypto-proponents across the board. The recent Tether/Bitfinex episode raised many questions about Tether’s status as a dependable stablecoin, since the virtual asset lost its 1:1 pegged valuation against the US Dollar, for a while.
2019-5-2 11:55 | |
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Stablecoins may be the least exciting tokens in the world of cryptocurrency, but even these projects have their share of drama. Last week, the New York Attorney General’s Office accused Bitfinex of masking $850 million in losses with the reserves of their stablecoin, Tether.
2019-5-2 00:57 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) in an uptrend but down 4. 3 percent Tether’s reserve low and the peg isn’t 1:1 against the USD It is now emerging that USDT’s reserves don’t tally with what’s in circulation. That means Tether Limited is lying and investors may flock to safety driving Bitcoin prices up.
2019-5-1 20:00 | |
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John Carvalho Deems BitGo As One Of The World’s Most Dangerous Companies The fallout for the most recent Bitfinex-Tether debacle has been huge. After the New York Attorney General’s [NYAG] office issued a lawsuit against Tether Limited and Bitfinex.
2019-5-1 19:50 | |
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By CCN. com: The bitcoin price has increased from $5,173 to $5,297 on major regulated crypto exchanges including Coinbase in the past 24 hours, by 2. 3 percent. Major crypto assets such as Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash spiked by 4 to 11 percent against the U.
2019-5-1 13:52 | |
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The latest Bitfinex-Tether fiasco caused a stir in the cryptocurrency community after the New York Attorney General’s [NYAG] office issued a lawsuit against Tether Limited, the issuer of the USDT token, and leading crypto exchange, Bitfinex.
2019-5-1 00:30 | |
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Tether, the leading stablecoin, recently unpegged from the US Dollar after news that the New York State Attorney General is investigating iFinex Inc. , which operates Bitfinex and owns Tether Ltd.
2019-4-29 22:06 | |
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Tether [USDT], the eight-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has been one of the most controversial coins in the market. The the coin’s journey has tumultuous from being a stablecoin pegged against the US Dollar to not being one.
2019-4-29 18:00 | |
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BSV Camp on “Craig is Satoshi” Position Reignited On April 26, allegations by the New York Attorney General’s Office (“AG”) arose against Bitfinex. The state’s AG issued a press release describing an investigation and allegations arising as a result of the investigation.
2019-4-29 15:43 | |
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The allegations against Bitfinex and Tether are overwhelming and it wouldn’t be wrong to say, insurmountable. However, the rumors surrounding them are being put to test with the lawsuit that was brought together by the New York Attorney, Letitia James, and Assistant Attorney General, Brian M.
2019-4-29 22:30 | |
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A quick visual overview of New York's allegations against crypto companies Bitfinex and Tether.
2019-4-29 14:52 | |
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A quick visual overview of New York's allegations against crypto companies Bitfinex and Tether.
2019-4-27 14:52 | |
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On April 26, 2019, Bitcoin’s number of transactions reached a large number and it could be connected to the New York AG’s lawsuit against Bitfinex and Tether. In addition, the total number of confirmed transactions reached a relatively higher point as well.
2019-4-27 10:30 | |
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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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