Cryptocurrencies News
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By Medha Singh (Reuters) – It’s alive! The NFT market is twitching out of its torpor, defying reports of its demise.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday put two regulators’ civil lawsuits against Sam Bankman-Fried on hold until the conclusion of the Department of Justice’s criminal case against the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
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By Tom Wilson and Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – New York’s chief financial regulator has ordered Paxos, the company behind the stablecoin of major crypto exchange Binance, to stop issuing the token, Paxos said in a statement on Monday.
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By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The dollar hovered near a five-week high against major peers on Monday on rising bets for prolonged Federal Reserve policy tightening ahead of a crucial consumer price report the following day.
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By Nikunj Ohri (Reuters) – The Group of 20 (G20) big economies is exploring whether the group could collectively regulate cryptocurrencies, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday.
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By Brendan O’Boyle (Reuters) – Risks over El Salvador’s embrace of bitcoin “have not materialized,” but use of the cryptocurrency still requires transparency and attention, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Friday in a statement after a visit to the Central American country.
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(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Robinhood Markets Inc of misleading investors when conducting its 2021 initial public offering about the brokerage’s financials and growth prospects.
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By Hannah Lang and Elizabeth Howcroft (Reuters) – Crypto companies offering their customers eye-popping yields through so-called “staking” products are earning the ire of the U.S. securities regulator who says such services should be registered.
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By Hannah Lang (Reuters) -Crypto exchange Kraken agreed to shut down its cryptocurrency staking service and pay $30 million in penalties to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it failed to register the program, the agency said on Thursday, in a move that could cause headaches for platforms
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday is set to hear arguments on whether FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried will be able to contact employees of companies he once controlled while out on bail ahead of his trial on fraud
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LONDON (Reuters) – Bank of New York Mellon’s head of digital assets Michael Demissie said on Wednesday that digital assets are “here to stay”, citing a 2022 study of the custodian bank’s clients.
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(Reuters) – Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the sale of unregistered securities, according to a Bloomberg report.
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By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) – Failed crypto firm FTX received court approval on Wednesday to issue subpoenas to its founder Sam Bankman-Fried and members of his family as part of the company’s investigation into “misappropriated and stolen” funds.
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(Reuters) – Digital Currency Group (DCG) is selling shares in several of its cryptocurrency funds at a high discount, and has started offloading its holdings in investment vehicles run by subsidiary Grayscale, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -A former Coinbase Global Inc product manager pleaded guilty on Tuesday in what U.S. prosecutors have called the first insider trading case involving cryptocurrency, his defense lawyer said in a court hearing.
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By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a proposal to modify Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail conditions, despite an agreement between the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder and prosecutors to address potential witness tampering concerns.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to postpone civil cases brought against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried by federal regulators until a parallel criminal case against the former billionaire concludes.
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(Reuters) – Canada’s Hut 8 Mining Corp. plans to merge with rival U.S. Bitcoin in an all-stock deal to create a mining giant in North America, the companies said on Tuesday.
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By Medha Singh, Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Vidya Ranganathan
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – North Korea stole more cryptocurrency assets in 2022 than in any other year and targeted the networks of foreign aerospace and defense companies, according to a currently confidential United Nations report seen by Reuters on Monday.