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FBI Wanted Co-Founder of Crypto Exchange Wex Sentenced in Russia

[Sep 24, 2023 1:30 AM] Aleksey Bilyuchenko, co-founder of Wex, the successor of the infamous Russian crypto exchange BTC-e, will spend only a couple of years in prison. The Russian, who is charged in the U.S. with money laundering, has been sentenced in his homeland as…

Lawyer Who Laundered Onecoin Money Denied New Trial

[Sep 19, 2023 11:30 PM] A judge in the U.S. has rejected a request by a lawyer who laundered $400 million from the Onecoin crypto pyramid to have a new trial. The ruling clears the path for sentencing 54-year-old Mark Scott despite a key prosecution witness admittedly…

Report: Hodlnaut’s Judicial Managers Oppose OPNX Takeover

[Sep 19, 2023 2:30 PM] According to a recent court filing, interim judicial managers for the troubled crypto lender Hodlnaut oppose a takeover by the crypto firm OPNX, which is linked to the now-defunct crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital and its founders. OPNX…

SEC Denied Immediate Access to Binance US Infrastructure

[Sep 19, 2023 1:00 PM] In a setback for the government, a federal judge rejected a request by the U.S. securities regulator to inspect the technological infrastructure of Binance US. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accuses the American subsidiary of the…

Bitcoin Marks 8th Year of US Commodity Status

[Sep 18, 2023 5:15 AM] On September 17, 2015, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) officially declared Bitcoin a commodity, a distinction that eight years later continues to set it apart from other cryptocurrencies that have yet to earn this status.While…

Former Celsius Boss Alex Mashinsky Seeks Dismissal of FTC Lawsuit

[Sep 12, 2023 11:30 PM] Alex Mashinsky, the former CEO of Celsius Network, has filed a motion to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit against him. In the motion, Mashinsky argues the FTC has failed to allege he violated any laws or rules. His lawyers say the…

Turkish Crypto Exchange Boss Gets 11,196 Years in Prison

[Sep 9, 2023 8:00 PM] The CEO of collapsed Turkish crypto exchange Thodex has been sentenced to 11,196 years, 10 months, and 15 days in prison. He purportedly absconded with more than $2 billion in cryptocurrency belonging to more than 400,000 customers. The court found…

Chainalysis Denounces Bitcoin Core Contributor As “Unqualified”

[Sep 9, 2023 11:00 AM] If you haven’t had a good laugh at Chainalysis’ attempts to defend the use of its blockchain forensics software for law enforcement purposes in light of recent court proceedings, now may be the time.After having to admit to the lack of scientific…

SEC Counters Ripple in Effort to Appeal Groundbreaking XRP Ruling

[Sep 8, 2023 3:46 PM] Whether or not Ripple violated securities law in making XRP available to retail investors by putting it on crypto exchanges is absolutely a question that needs appeals court intervention, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) argued…

LBRY Gears Up to Contest US Securities Law Violation Ruling

[Sep 8, 2023 10:30 AM] In a recently filed court document, blockchain-based publishing company LBRY has signaled its intent to challenge a New Hampshire district court’s verdict. This ruling, made in November 2022, concurred with the U.S. Securities and Exchange…

CFTC Goes After Opyn, Other DeFi Operations in Enforcement Sweep

[Sep 7, 2023 5:01 PM] The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged three decentralized finance (DeFi) operations – Opyn, Inc., ZeroEx (0x), Inc. and Deridex, Inc. – with offering illegal derivatives trading, according to a Thursday statement from the…

DC Circuit Court of Appeals Chastises SEC for Grayscale Denial

[Sep 2, 2023 3:00 AM] On Tuesday, August 29, 2023, The U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (Court) unanimously granted Grayscale’s petition for review of the Securities Exchange Commission’s (SEC) denial of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Exchange Traded Product…