Mark Cuban and Voyager chief ran crypto ‘Ponzi scheme,’ lawsuit claims

A new lawsuit claims Mark Cuban played a pivotal role in shilling now-defunct Voyager Digital’s unregistered securities, duping investors in a ‘Ponzi scheme’ that lost them billions. Voyager was “as c...

WazirX chief insists Binance bought the troubled crypto exchange

Binance chief Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has started a dispute with WazirX co-founder Nischal Shetty. Binance claimed to have acquired India’s largest crypto exchange in November 2019. Now, after the governm...

Bitcoin Gets Praised For Its Technical Features By The Chief Of Brazil’s Central Bank

Bitcoin and its underlying technology has earned the trust and praise of some of the most notable figures in banking and finance. For instance, the director of Brazil’s central bank only has good thin...

Last Week [In] Crypto: Nomad Loses $200M in Daring Hack, CFTC Tipped to Be Crypto’s Chief Regulator

It’s been a pretty interesting week and Be[in]Crypto has curated the most important stories in the cryptoverse for your digest. The stories range from Nomad’s $200 million hack, WazirX investigation b...

Crypto Fear Factor Is Overblown, According to Stablecoin Chief

Frax Founder Sam Kazemian has revealed why public fears about stablecoins and the wider crypto market are overblown. Speaking exclusively to Be[in]Crypto, Kazemian explained why the chances of a Terra...

ThredUP Names Noelle Sandler As Chief Marketing Officer

A customer using a ThredUP clean out bag to edit her closet. Courtesy of ThredUP ThredUP’s new chief marketing officer is targeting younger customers. The first dedicated CMO in five years, Noelle Sad...

FTX Chief Sam Bankman-Fried Backs Solana (SOL) A Day After Major Exploit, Here’s Why

A day after Solana faced a major exploit, FTX chief Sam Bankman-Fried came out supporting the SOL cryptocurrency. During his recent interview with the Fortune publication, SBF said that Solana is the ...

MicroStrategy to expand its bitcoin bet as Saylor steps down as chief exec

MicroStrategy (MSTR) released its Q2 earnings results on Tuesday, announcing its president Phong Le will replace current chief Michael Saylor as CEO, who will instead become its executive chairman in ...

MAS Chief Minister Asks Firms to Discourage Retail Crypto Trading

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has encouraged financial companies to discourage cryptocurrency trading. Responding to a question in parliament on Aug. 1, 2022, concerning licensing of digital pay...

I’m the chief economist of a mortgage firm that has funded more than $100 billion in loans. These are 3 things to know about the housing market now.

Cameron Findlay As home prices and mortgage rates march upwards, and housing inventory remains seriously constrained, many buyers are wondering: Should I buy? And if I want to buy, what do I need to k...

Google chief warns bloated staff of ‘real concerns’ over productivity

Between slowing revenue growth and an increasingly murky outlook for tech companies in general, Google is tasking its employees to put in harder shifts at work. Amid a larger market downturn over the ...

Axie Infinity Chief Denies Insider Trading

Chief says firm was fighting short-sellers AXS Price at the time of writing – $$19.59 A wallet belonging to Nguyen shifted nearly 50,000 of the game’s native AXS token Axie Infinity prime supporter an...

Voyager’s Former Chief Innovation Officer Seeks a Restructure

The New Alternative The struggling lender’s proposed restructuring is opposed by Shingo Lavine, a former chief innovation officer of Voyager, and Adam Lavine, his father and business partner, wh...

Axie Infinity chief denies insider trading, says firm was fighting short-sellers

Axie Infinity co-founder and chief exec Trung Nguyen has denied that he engaged in insider trading shortly before the game’s parent company Sky Mavis announced it had been the victim of a monumental $...

Titanium Blockchain Chief Pleads Guilty In $21 Million Crypto Fraud Scheme: US Department of Justice

– Advertisement –   CEO of fraudulent crypto firm pleads guilty to securities fraud. A press release by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday reveals that the CEO of Titanium Blockc...

VW Chief Diess To Leave, Replaced By Porsche’s Blume

VW’s Herbert Diess (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Getty Images Volkswagen said Friday Group CEO Herbert Diess is stepping down, an unexpected move that will shock investors. The move came a...

XRPL Chief Developer Rejects Idea of Ecosystem’s Own Credit Cards in Main Wallet Solution

Despite the rumors spreading about the appearance of its own card solution in the main wallet of the XRPL ecosystem, Xumm Wallet, the development team of the project is not interested in such an innov...

Uvalde Superintendent Recommends Police Chief Pete Arredondo Be Fired

Topline The Uvalde schools’ superintendent recommended school District Police Chief Pete Arredondo be fired on Wednesday, over harsh criticism for his department’s response to the school shooting at R...

‘Singapore-based’ Crypto Firms Leading Market Meltdown Were Not Regulated, Central Bank Chief Says

The MAS, the country’s central bank, is continuing to distance itself from embattled crypto firms with ties to the Southeast Asian nation. In June, the MAS reprimanded Singapore-born Three Arrow...

Military Chief Says Situation Complex but Stable

(Bloomberg) — President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is facing “colossal challenges” in the high-tech sector, an unusually frank admission of the difficulties the Kremlin is experiencing as s...

Private but regulated tokens could beat CBDCs, Australian central bank chief says

Cryptocurrencies issued by private companies could be better than central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) if the firms are regulated appropriately, Phillip Lowe, governor of the Australian central ban...

FTX Chief Sam Bankman-Fried Lays Out Three of the Biggest Use Cases for Crypto

The chief executive officer of crypto derivatives exchange platform FTX is highlighting three major use cases for digital assets. In a lengthy thread, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says that cryptocurrenc...

U.S., China Leaders May Be On Track To Meet In November – China Think-Tank Chief

U.S. President Joe Biden listens while meeting virtually with Xi Jinping, China’s president, in the … [+] Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Nov. 15, 2...

Russia Ousts Anti-West Space Chief And Announces New Ride-Sharing Deal With NASA To Space Station

Topline The Kremlin announced Friday the ouster of Dmitry Rogozin, the controversial, anti-West head of its Roscosmos space agency, on the same day Roscosmos struck a partnership with NASA enabling as...

SEC Chief Gensler questions whether deal can be made to keep Chinese stocks listed in U.S.

A deadline is fast approaching for U.S. and Chinese regulators to strike a deal that would enable investors to continue to trade stocks of Chinese companies on U.S. exchanges, but Securities and Excha...

British Open Chief Says It’s Not On His ‘Agenda’ To Ban LIV Golfers From British Open—But Hints At Their Murky Future In Majors

Topline The head of the governing body overseeing the British Open, one of golf’s four major tournaments, said Wednesday that the organization doesn’t plan to ban golfers who defected to the controver...

Bitcoin (BTC) Price Will Hit ATH in Next 24-Months – Predicts Coinshares Chief Strategy Officer – Coinpedia – Fintech & Cryptocurreny News Media

This year has been one of the worst bear markets ever, with Bitcoin (BTC) falling by almost 70% from its all-time high in November 2021. Analysts predict a price turnaround in the near future for the ...

BitMex Ex. Chief Executive Officer suggests to be, “Prepared” For A Massive Bitcoin Rally

Bitcoin has been facing a severe downtrend for the past few months.   The prices of Bitcoin in the first quarter of 2021 were recorded at nearly $69,000.  Bitcoin is the most traded and used cryptocur...

Spot Bitcoin ETF: Grayscale’s chief legal officer says litigation could take up to 2 years

Grayscale’s litigation process against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the regulator’s denial of a spot Bitcoin ETF could take as long as two years. That’s according to the leadin...

Chief strategist sees ‘no upside catalysts’ for crypto as BTC yet to sink into a recession

As the cryptocurrency market continues to struggle with the bearish sentiment that has prevailed in recent weeks, some experts believe that it is still not in the clear and that the unfavorable situat...

Binance.US Shooting To Go Public With Hire of New CFO, Says Chief Executive

The US branch of the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume is hiring a former PayPal executive as its new chief financial officer. In a new blog post, Binance.US is naming Jasmine Lee, a f...

I’m the chief economist for a $5 billion real estate data and title company. Here are 5 things you need to know about the housing market now

Mark Fleming Housing has become increasingly unaffordable to millions of Americans — with home prices and mortgage rates continuing to rise (see the lowest rates you may qualify for now here). So – as...