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Deaton Dismisses Chia Network’s COO Claims That SEC Informed Ripple Execs About XRP Being A Security
– Advertisement – Deaton Shares Facts Proving SEC Never Informed Ripple Execs That XRP Was A Security. Following the filings of summary judgment motions, opposition, and replies, the XRP...
Seoul court rejects prosecution’s move to detain Terraform Labs execs: Yonhap
The Seoul Southern District Court has dismissed the prosecutors’ warrants for arrest of several leading figures in Terraform Labs, according to South Korean news outlet Yonhap. Prosecutor...
Ripple Execs Blame SEC For BlockFi Demise
As the legal battle between Ripple Labs and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enters the home stretch, the fintech is throwing one more punch. As NewsBTC reported, Nov. 30 and Dec. 5 c...
US lawmakers ask DOJ hold FTX execs accountable ‘to the fullest extent of the law’
Two Democratic members of the United States Senate have called on the Justice Department to investigate the collapse of FTX and potentially prosecute individuals involved in wrongdoing. In a Nov. 23 l...
US Senators want justice department to hold FTX execs accountable for collapse
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) wrote a letter to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to express their concern regarding the FTX implosion. Warren and Whit...
Senator Warren Demands Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX Execs Be Held Accountable to ‘Fullest Extent of the Law’
On Tuesday, Warren, Durbin, and Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) sent a letter to Fidelity, asking the financial services firm to reconsider allowing retail clients to include bitcoin in their retirement pla...
FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Faces US Extradition, Bankruptcy Court Says Top Execs Won’t Be Compensated – Bitcoin News
According to a report citing three people familiar with the matter, the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) may be extradited to the United States for questioning. After it was alleged that SBF tra...
SBF, FTX execs reportedly spend millions on properties in the Bahamas
The latest revelation from the FTX case reveals that Bahamian properties worth millions were bought in the company name. FTX, at the time operated by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), his parents and other hig...
Washington Post, Forbes, Wall Street Journal Slammed for ‘Puff Piece’ Reports on FTX and Alameda Execs – Bitcoin News
Following the highly criticized New York Times article that features commentary from the former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the public continues to give the mainstream media flak for publishi...
FTX Execs Gave $70 Million to Both Democrats and Republicans Heading Into the 2022 US Midterms – Coinotizia
After the collapse of FTX, a number of journalists reported on the fact that FTX executives deployed significant donations to political leaders in the United States. During the most recent election cy...
FTX Execs Gave $70 Million to Both Democrats and Republicans Heading Into the 2022 US Midterms – Bitcoin News
After the collapse of FTX, a number of journalists reported on the fact that FTX executives deployed significant donations to political leaders in the United States. During the most recent election cy...
Bitcoin price dips to $16.4K over Genesis woes as execs defend GBTC
Bitcoin (BTC) fell to intraday lows after the Nov. 16 Wall Street open as the FTX scandal appeared to claim another victim. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Genesis Trading ...
GOP lawmaker donates FTX exec’s campaign contribution
Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., is the latest member of Congress to donate political funds he received from an FTX executive, distancing himself after the troubled crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy prote...
Feds charge former MoviePass execs with securities and wire fraud
The former executives in charge of MoviePass have been indicted in what the Justice Department calls “a scheme to defraud investors.” Ex-MoviePass CEO J. Mitchell Lowe and Theodore Farnswo...
Compute North paid top execs roughly $3M benefits before filing for bankruptcy
Bankrupt Bitcoin (BTC) mining data center operator Compute North paid its top executives over $3 million in benefits before filing for bankruptcy on Sept. 22, according to an Oct. 28 court filing. The...
Deleted Files Indicate Crypto Lender Hodlnaut’s Execs Gave Little Weight to Terra Luna Exposure – Bitcoin News
According to a report, the embattled crypto lender Hodlnaut saw a significant loss from the Terra blockchain collapse last May. The report notes that Hodlnaut downplayed the company’s exposure to the ...
Musk fires Twitter execs, research stirs blockchain energy debate and CFTC brass shares crypto concerns: Hodler’s Digest, Oct. 23-29
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, pr...
Fired Twitter Execs May Receive $141 Million, Reports Say
Topline Four top Twitter executives fired by billionaire Elon Musk could receive separation packages totaling $141.1 million, according to research firm Equilar, as the world’s richest man completes h...
Elon Musk Fires Top Twitter Execs, Assumes Ownership
Elon Musk has officially become the owner of the social media giant Twitter. Freeing the bird, as he put it shortly after, the Tesla boss also detailed his intentions yesterday. “The bird is freed,” t...
Inflation is dominating the conversation on earnings calls. Here’s what execs are saying
Pepsi products are displayed for sale in a Target store on March 8, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images One thing’s clear at the start of the corporate earnings season: In...
Alleged rug pull Freeway halts crypto withdrawals, erases execs
Freeway, the UK-based crypto platform that offered users up to 43% yield via so-called “Supercharger simulations,” has been branded a “$100m+ rug” after it halted all withdrawals and removed informati...
Former OpenSea Exec’s NFT ‘Insider Trading’ Case Will Continue
Judge Jesse Furman shot down Chastain’s argument, labeling it “wholly without merit” Furman however said “insider trading” may be misleading in this case and can be struck from the indictment Nate Cha...
Banks Are Future Access Points for Crypto Market, Execs Say
Realization of blockchain technology’s uses cases has combined with “groundswell” of demand from bank clients, Fidelity Digital Asset Management executive says People are comfortable with entering cry...
Creditors Oppose Immunity From Future Bankruptcy Lawsuits Plans for Voyager Execs
Lawyers representing the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (UCC) of Voyager Digital have raised objections to sweeping legal immunity being planned for the firm’s senior executives. Last month...
Kraken, dYdX Foundation and BlockFi Add Execs
Crypto exchange Kraken seeks to build out an NFT marketplace and more spot trading pairs in UK after latest hire BlockFi’s co-founder takes chief operating officer post amid executive reshuffle Gemini...
Voyager Digital’s Creditors Push Back Against Plans to Provide Execs With Legal Immunity
Attorneys for the UCC describe a “Hobson’s choice” for Voyager’s creditors: to either support the sale agreement as-is and have a chance at getting their money back faster while allowing Voyager’s exe...
Customer support gets swamped during market swings — Exchange execs
Binance Australia’s CEO says it is imperative that customer support is ready for a large influx of customer inquiries at any moment. Crypto market turbulence can be an immensely stressful time for cus...
Kanye West—Restricted On Twitter And Instagram—Posts Cryptic YouTube Video Of Meeting With Adidas Execs
Topline Kanye West—whose Twitter and Instagram accounts were locked this weekend for his posting of apparently antisemitic messages—continued his bizarre social media tirade on Monday, posting a 30-mi...
Former Coinbase Execs Raise $5.3M for Web 3 Node Support Platform
Company founders Ola Muse and Karthik Kalyanaraman left Coinbase in August. It only took them two months to raise and close the seed round, which was led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from M...