A new report has indicated that crypto exchange Coinbase has provided Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with a “suite of features” intended for tracking the company’s customers. According to the report, ICE has been granted access to an intelligence-gathering application, called Coinbase Tracer, that provides a variety of forensic data tracking capabilities. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is an…
The FBI today added Ruja Ignatova, the self-proclaimed “Cryptoqueen,” to its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives. The agency is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to Ignatova’s arrest. Ignatova, who has been on the run since 2017, is accused of operating a massive Ponzi scheme involving a cryptocurrency called OneCoin. Europol also added Ignatova to its most-wanted list…
“Crypto” is often used as an honorific inside the community. United States Securities and Exchange Commission member Hester Peirce is called Crypto Mom for her steadfast support for digital assets, and Time magazine crowned Vitalik Buterin the Prince of Crypto. When Ruja Ignatova was bestowed the title “Cryptoqueen” in a 2019 true-crime podcast, however, it was with far less endearment. …
This week, the rapper Snoop Dogg spoke about the crypto crash in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday and explained that he believes the cryptocurrency economy will bounce back. Snoop said that he feels like the crash “‘weeded’ out all of the people” that were not supposed to be in the space in the first place. Snoop Says Crypto Crash…
Shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust were trading at an unprecedented discount of 35% following the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rejection of its application to transition into a spot market Bitcoin ETF. The circumstance is ironic, given that the existing discount was one of Grayscale’s primary arguments for why the transition needed to take place. Last month, the company held…
Cryptocurrency exchange FTX is close to purchasing digital asset lender BlockFi’s remaining assets for $25 million, according to CNBC. According to sources close to the matter, BlockFi’s equity investors were wiped out and are now writing their positions off at a loss. In addition, the FTX deal could take multiple months to close, opening up the possibility that the price…
The crypto sector is caught in a deep correction and recent reporting shows that a majority of altcoins are more than 70% down from their 2021 highs. Solana is among that list and investors are on the fence about whether the token has strong enough fundamentals to warrant buying SOL at its current value. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and…
In brief Crypto analytics platform Nansen has integrated Solana NFTs into its platform. Nansen tracks more than 53,000 Solana NFT projects now, along with projects on other platforms. Nansen, a blockchain analytics platform used by traders in the NFT and DeFimarkets, announced today that it has fully integrated Solana, launching a series of dashboards and features that provide analysis into…
Jamie Redman Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 5,700 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging…
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, has taken enforcement action against a South African national in what the regulatory body called its “largest fraudulent scheme involving Bitcoin.” In a Thursday announcement, the CFTC said it had filed a civil enforcement action in federal court for fraud and registration violations against Cornelius Johannes Steynberg. The South African national…
