August 5, 2019 @ 10:21 pm By Cali Haan  |  

More than half a billion dollars in Bitcoins ($525 million USD) left the building at BitMEX this month after news of a CFTC investigation broke in the press, CCN reports. BitMEX is a crypto derivatives trading platform that allows 100X leveraged bets. BitMEX does not have… Read More

August 5, 2019 @ 10:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

  Blockchain-litigations, public and private, “(took) off…exponentially” in 2018, and Virginia-based Law firm Murphy & McGonigle is using its Blockchain Litigation Database (“BLD”) to track the 250 court actions that have ensued following the crypto market bust of late 2017. In the last 60 days,… Read More

August 3, 2019 @ 9:45 am By Cali Haan  |  

Lawyers for Bitfinex, iFinex, and Tether, cryptocurrency companies currently under investigation for fraud in New York sent a letter to the presiding judging promising to appeal if the case against them is not dismissed. They also asked Judge Joel M Cohen to preclude them from having… Read More

August 2, 2019 @ 5:39 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The CEO of a crypto derivatives trading platform called LedgerX issued a “profanity-laced” tirade on Twitter Thursday after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission contradicted the company’s widely-touted announcement that it had become the first crypto-derivatives platform in the US to launch physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts to… Read More

August 1, 2019 @ 11:20 pm By Cali Haan  |  

After its application to IPO in lapsed regulators’ hands last November in Hong Kong, Canaan, the world’s second-largest manufacturer of cryptomining hardware, has filed a confidential S-1 to pursue a US US initial public offering (IPO), according to Chinese media outlet Weixin reports. Canaan sells… Read More

August 1, 2019 @ 4:06 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The latest blog post from “full-service (digital asset) investment management firm” Arca contends that “crypto-asset” investing is not much more speculative than traditional sorts. But Arca is not a neutral commenter. The company has invested early in LEO tokens, for example. LEOs are loyalty/equity “exchange… Read More

August 1, 2019 @ 3:58 am By Cali Haan  |  

A judge in Philadelphia has ruled that a class-action suit brought against Mark Karpeles, the reviled former CEO of the Mt Gox bitcoin exchange, can proceed in Pennsylvania. Karpeles had asked for dismissal claiming Pennsylvania courts did not have jurisdiction, but the judge determined that… Read More

August 1, 2019 @ 2:52 am By Cali Haan  |  

An unnamed OTC trading desk in Moscow is selling up to $30 million USD in “tethers” per day to Chinese merchants sending proceeds home, Coindesk reports. Until 2018, the favoured currency for this type of transacting was reportedly Bitcoin, but Chinese merchants have lately started dumping… Read More

July 31, 2019 @ 11:24 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Facebook has disclosed the market risks it perceives regarding Libra, the company’s attempt to create a global cryptocurrency and payment rails  for use by the network’s 2.4 billion users “and as a standalone application.” The risks are disclosed in the company’s substantial Q2 2019 quarterly… Read More

July 31, 2019 @ 11:18 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Lawyers for the crypto exchange Bitfinex (and associated companies iFinex and Tether) have sent a letter to the judge presiding over anti-fraud proceedings against them in New York threatening to appeal if the judge does not dismiss the case against them. The letter from Bitfinex… Read More

July 31, 2019 @ 6:23 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Lawyers and representatives from auditing firm EY and various other personnel will be paid $1.6 million USD for their work dismantling QuadrigaCX, a Vancouver-based, Nova Scotia-administered crypto exchange that failed in January after the death of its founder in December. According to the CBC, presiding… Read More

July 31, 2019 @ 1:33 am By Cali Haan  |  

Korea’s central government has designated port city Busan as a “special free zone” for the development of blockchain technology (encrypted and distributed databases), but has stopped short of permitting ICO’s, FN News reports. The designation was made as part of a program implemented by the… Read More

July 30, 2019 @ 11:32 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Tenacious and liquid crypto exchange Bitfinex and affiliate companies had hoped that a fraud case brought against them by the New York Attorney General (NYAG) would be wrapped up this week. Instead, a formerly sympathetic judge has granted an extension, The Block reports. Bitfinex, iFinex, and… Read More

July 30, 2019 @ 11:28 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A trans cryptographer named Isis Agora Lovecruft has started a GoFundMe campaign to defend themself in a defamation lawsuit brought by prominent Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd. Todd levelled the suit against Lovecruft in April after Lovecruft called him a “rapist” in a tweet. Lovecruft’s… Read More

July 30, 2019 @ 2:56 am By Cali Haan  |  

Have coin, must influence. Justin Sun, founder of the TRON cryptocurrency network, canceled his much advertised Thursday charity lunch with Warren Buffet last week, but then made an appearance that same evening at a party held for TRON YouTube influencers in San Francisco, according to CoinDesk…. Read More

July 30, 2019 @ 1:53 am By Cali Haan  |  

A man who pleaded guilty in New York to distributing, “prolific quantities of powerful opioids,’ has also agreed to forfeit $4,156,198.18, “including the funds or currency in seven different Bitcoin wallet addresses.” The release regarding the plea and forfeiture from the Department of Justice (DOJ), U.S. Attorney’s… Read More

July 30, 2019 @ 1:01 am By Cali Haan  |  

A man at the centre of an extradition tug of war between the US, France and his home country, Russia, is now being sued for $100 million USD by the California Department of Justice (DOJ). Alexander Vinnick has been imprisoned in Greece since July 2017… Read More

July 29, 2019 @ 11:52 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Mike Novogratz’ ambitious crypto merchant bank venture, Galaxy Digital (TSXV: GLXY; Frankfurt: 7LX) has been licensed by FINRA to underwrite crypto-token offerings, which will lead to the, “expansion of its broker-dealer, Galaxy Digital Advisors LLC,” Galaxy Digital states in a press release July 24th. According to TechCrunch, Galaxy… Read More

July 29, 2019 @ 11:43 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Tobiasza Niemira, co-owner of the recently-failed Bitmarket crypto exchange, has been found dead in a forest near his home town of Olsztyn in Poland, local media outlet Gazeta Wyborcza reports. The apparent cause of death is a gunshot wound to the head. Bitmarket went offline July… Read More

July 28, 2019 @ 5:19 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Jon Barry Thompson (AKA “J. Barry Thompson), principal of “cryptocurrency escrow company” Volantis Escrow Platform LLC and Volantis Market Making LCC has been arrested in Pennsylvania for allegedly conning two companies out of $7 million USD they transferred to him for the purchase of bitcoins,… Read More