The U.S. SEC has charged ICOBox with acting as an unregistered broker and conducting an illegal securities offering during its own ICO. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued ICOBox and its founder Nikolay Evdokimov for conducting an illegal securities offering and for acting as unregistered brokers. SEC says ICOBox’s digital tokens […]
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The Turkish government has announced plans to establish a national blockchain infrastructure for public administration applications. The Turkish government has announced plans to establish a national blockchain infrastructure to utilize distributed ledger technology (DLT) in public administration. The Ministry of Industry and Technology set out its vision during its Strategy 2023 presentation on Sept. 18 in Ankara. […]
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A U.S. judge ruled that Craig Wright must give up half of what he and Dave Kleiman mined together — but how much is that? Since early 2018, Craig Wright, a controversial Australian computer scientist and tech entrepreneur, has been the defendant in a lawsuit filed on behalf of the estate of Dave Kleiman, Wright’s late business […]
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The financial market regulator of Luxembourg warned the public about the activities of a clone website impersonating crypto payments provider BitPay. Luxembourg’s financial regulator, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), has red-flagged the activities of a fraudulent clone website that is impersonating cryptocurrency payment services provider BitPay. On Sept. 18, the CSSF issued a […]
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Altcoins are on fire. Can this rally continue and is this a good time to buy? Let’s analyze the charts. The Chicago Board Options Exchange has withdrawn its application for the VanEck/SolidX Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF). However, VanEck’s director of digital asset strategies Gabor Gurbacs stated that they will continue to work with regulators […]
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American e-commerce giant Overstock is working on the liberalization of its planned digital dividend shares trading. American e-commerce giant Overstock hopes to liberalize its planned digital dividend shares trading. According to a Sept. 18 press release, Overstock is working with regulatory authorities on making its digital asset-based dividend freely tradable by non-affiliates following distribution. As […]
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Cryptocurrencies are not a competitor to gold, according to North America COO of Barrick Gold, Catherine Raw. Catherine Raw, the North America COO of the largest gold mining firm in the world, Barrick Gold, said that she does not think cryptocurrencies are competitive with gold, Fortune reported on Sept. 18. Raw made her remarks yesterday […]
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New York financial watchdog approves three stablecoin offerings including BUSD, backed by Paxos and Binance. A sign of things to come? Over the course of the past few weeks, the global cryptocurrency community bore witness to two major announcements related to stablecoins — with the first being the launch of Paxos’s gold-backed Ethereum token, PAX […]
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BTCC veteran Bobby Lee claims the Chinese have always thought of Bitcoin as an investment rather than a payment system. Bobby Lee — co-founder and former CEO of China’s first crypto exchange BTCC — says the Chinese have always thought of Bitcoin as an investment rather than a payment system. Lee made his remarks during […]
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The CBOE withdraws its Bitcoin ETF proposal just 2 weeks after the firm began offering a limited Bitcoin ETF and a month before the SEC had to rule on it. The Chicago Board Options Exchange’s (CBOE) BZX Equity Exchange has withdrawn its proposal before the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) VanEck/SolidX Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded […]
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