May 30, 2024 Argentina Teams Up With El Salvador To Boost Crypto Adoption Argentine authorities are working with El Salvador, a pioneering nation in bitcoin adoption, aiming to boost cryptocurrency adoption in Argentina. High-ranking officials from Argentina’s…
May 1, 2024 Groundhog Day for the Crypto Wars: The DOJ on Bitcoin Prowl On April 24, the Department of Justice continued its assault on open source developers, arresting Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill on allegations of…
March 22, 2024 Review: How Ray Trapani Scammed the Crypto World and Got Away With it Bitconned is a tale about scams, backstabbings, and a failed justice system set in the world of cryptocurrency. At the heart of the Netflix documentary…
July 13, 2023 New Crypto Bill Aims To Circumvent SEC's Regulation-by-Enforcement Strategy New bipartisan crypto bill would “create a federal regulatory framework.” Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R–Wyo.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D–N.Y.) have introduced a proposal to regulate…
April 19, 2023 SEC Sues Crypto Exchange Bittrex Shortly After It Announces It's Leaving U.S. Markets At the end of March, a long-lasting and prominent cryptocurrency exchange, Bittrex, announced it would no longer do business with U.S. citizens because “it’s…
March 23, 2023 SEC to Coinbase: Nice Crypto Exchange You Got There, It'd Be a Shame if Something Happened to It Coinbase, which is by trade volume the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, announced yesterday it had been hit by the Securities and…
February 15, 2023 Renegade SEC Commissioner Wants To Save Crypto: Live With Hester Peirce, Nick Gillespie, and Zach Weissmueller The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Kraken—America’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume—with offering an unregistered security last Thursday. As part of a settlement,…
December 16, 2022 Elizabeth Warren's Crypto Bill Targets Financial Freedom, Not Fraud Beyond politically connected scammers and frothy valuations, the attractiveness of cryptocurrencies lies in their potential for doing what cash does, but across distances. When…
December 10, 2022 Governments Scramble To Manage, Regulate, and Throttle Crypto On January 15, 2022, the Canadian government closed its borders to unvaccinated American truckers and began requiring domestic truckers to show proof of COVID…
