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SEC has no authority over crypto, CFTC commissioner argues

Amid the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expanding the scope of oversight of the cryptocurrency industry, a commissioner with the Commodity Futures Trading

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Ripple granted access to Binance’s records in SEC securities case

The ongoing case between fintech firm Ripple and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took another turn this week when the company was granted

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Uruguay: Senator introduces bill to enable use of crypto for payments

Uruguayan Senator Juan Satori has introduced a draft bill to regulate cryptocurrency and enable businesses to accept crypto payments. Satori joins a growing list of

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Three US Senators propose narrowing crypto tax language in infrastructure bill

Lawmakers have written an amendment to an infrastructure bill in the U.S. Senate which proposes excluding certain crypto companies from the reporting requirements for brokers.

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Russia grants $200K to build tool for tracing crypto transactions

Federal authorities in Russia are moving forward with a plan to closely monitor cryptocurrency activity for illicit transactions and deanonymize crypto users’ identities. The Russian

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Victory Capital files SEC application for crypto ETF

Investment firm Victory Capital Management has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund. In a Form S-1

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In crypto, no one cares who you are: Here’s why that’s a good thing

Blockchains provide a trust-free anonymous intermediary for objective transactional actions, putting wealth transfer back in the hands of the individual and out of the hands

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FBI joins Mirror Trading probe in Africa to help recover US investor funds

Investigations into the South African company Mirror Trading International (MTI) – widely seen as last year’s most ruinous Bitcoin (BTC) Ponzi scheme – are now

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China crypto crime: Still ‘top ranked’ for illicit activity but crime is falling

A new report from Chainalysis has found that while China’s share of global criminal crypto flows has been falling since the third quarter of 2019,

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‘Nakamoto’s innovation is real,’ says SEC Chair Gary Gensler

Gary Gensler, the Chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, believes that the blockchain revolution started by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008