Jessie Liu, partner at Skadden and the former US attorney for the District of Columbia, headed up the team that has prosecuted what some believe is the greatest number of cryptocurrency crimes worldwide — Welcome to Video, Dark Scandals, Helix, North Korea, Hamas/Al Qaeda and ISIS. In this episode, she discusses: how she came to create a Threat...
\+ CFTC Chair Gushes About ETH This week, another big institutional player invested an eye-opening sum in Bitcoin, while BTC's overall bullish trend shows no signs of slowing down. CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert praised Ethereum while dancing around whether ETH or the greater DeFi landscape should be labeled securities or commodities. We also have a roundup of the latest...
Ethereum has faced a strong drop since the August highs of $490. The coin currently trades for $375, far below the aforementioned highs. The cryptocurrency remains in a fundamentally strong position, though, analysts say. So much so that the chairman of the U.S. Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) threw his weight behind Ethereum. In a talk, he said that he has genuinely...
BitMEX, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchange and derivative trading platform received a major blow from CFTC last week. Following which investors rushed to remove more than 50,000 bitcoin tokens from BitMEX. The situation is worsening for the exchange as leading cryptocurrency investigation firm Chainalysis has now labeled the platform as a “high risk” exchange. According to the...
Quick take: Bitmex's Arthur Hayes and Samuel Reed are stepping down from their roles as CEO and CTO respectively The move comes a week after the US CFTC and DoJ charged them with illegally operating a derivatives exchange and violating the Bank Secrecy Act Vivien Khoo, Chief Operating Officer of 100x Group, will become Interim CEO Ben Radclyffe, Commercial Director at Bitmex, will...
The bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX is in hot soup. According to a statement by United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the exchange is facing charges for operating illegally in the United States and for violating AML (Anti-Money Laundering) regulations. CFTC has filed a civil enforcement action against BitMEX owners and operators. The official statement released on October 1 reveals that CFTC will...
In response to recent charges by CFTC Bitmex has released a blog assuring traders that the funds are safe and Bitmex will continue operating as usual. Bitmex team also responded through their official twitter handle and cleared doubts regarding the withdrawals and continuity of operations. United States CFTC & DOJ Filing Withdrawals Will Be Released The post "All Funds Are Safe", BitMex Responds...
In brief: Bitcoin has managed to stay above $10,000 for 65 days BTC's impressive run is currently threatened by the unfolding saga between the CFTC, US DoJ and Bitmex The CFTC has charged Bitmex and its owners with illegally operating a derivatives exchange The Department of Justice has also charged the owners of Bitmex with violating the Bank Secrecy act Bitmex has vowed...
U.S. banking giant JP Morgan Chase agreed to pay fines of almost a billion dollars after acknowledging offenses regarding commodity market manipulation investigations. On Sept. 29, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) concluded what has been the largest-ever settlement imposed by the derivatives regulator according to Reuters. The bank has been engaged in a pattern The post Why JP Morgan Getting Fined $1bn...
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