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OneCoin’s co-founders, Bulgarian national Ruja Ignatova and joint U.K. and Swedish citizen Karl Greenwood, promoted the fictitious cryptocurrency – which never existed on any blockchain – through a kind of multi-level marketing scheme, paying initial investors to bring in more investors. By the time OneCoin was revealed to be a scam, an estimated 3.5 million […]
“This aligns with our spirit at OJK, particularly in consumer protection and education,” Hasan Fawzi, the regulator’s head of supervision for financial technology, digital financial assets and crypto, said at a media briefing on Tuesday. “We expect our regulatory mechanisms to directly impact the prevention of fraudulent investments.” Source link
Donegan managed a team of 300 people around the world, joined OKX in August 2023 and left in January 2024, his profile states. He described himself as a regulatory specialist on AML with “skills in creating policies and procedures, meeting regulatory expectations while promoting business initiatives and establishing strong relationships with regulators.” Source link
“It is very difficult to know, from what has been publicly disclosed thus far, the nature of the government inquiry that has been sent to the Ethereum Foundation or whether the Foundation is the target of that investigation,” Preston Byrne, managing partner of Byrne & Storm, P.C., told CoinDesk in an email. Source link
Reports suggest the SEC may be about to categorize ETH as a security, with huge implications for the blockchain’s future. Here’s why the SEC would be wrong. Source link
“Asset management firms asked the SEC for them to have exposure in digital assets, especially bitcoin and spot bitcoin ETFs, but we need to consider carefully whether to allow asset management firms to invest in digital assets directly due to the high risk,” said Pornanong. Source link
Shapeshifting Justice: The SEC’s Weakest Case Yet Source link
But it is possible, as one of the world’s largest websites, it would have liked to. After less than a year, Reddit decided to sunset its “Community Points” crypto rewards token pilot, which was hailed as a success at launch. While decentralization maxis live by the maxim that “not your keys, not your coins,” the […]
Former president and Republican front-runner Donald Trump has said Bitcoin has taken a life on its own and will probably need some regulation. Source link
The collapse of FTX, Terra, and Three Arrows have led authorities to frame regulations or guidance to protect customers from inadequacies in the digital asset industry. The HKMA document says firms should hold clients’ digital assets in separate accounts segregated from the firm’s own assets in the event of insolvency. Companies should prevent the use […]