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As you know from the title of my blog, "CyberCrime & Doing Time," I'm very interested in cybercrime and the criminal justice system. This week I've been looking at SIM Swapping cases and wanted to share what I learned from reading the sentencing memos sentencing transcript for Ricky Handschumacher. Ricky was one of the members of "The Community" - a group of six OGUsers/HackForums punks who decided to go into the crypto theft business. They haunted crypto commun...

Roubini went on to explain what meant by listing his “seven Cs of crypto: concealed, corrupt, crooks, criminals, con men, carnival barkers’” and ‘“CZ,”’ the initials of a Chinese crypto bigshot.

CNBC reported that economist Nouriel Roubini "… described crypto and some of its major players as an ecosystem that is totally corrupt."

This could be a serious deterrent to future qualified candidates who want to run but are afraid of the bias.

Industry, ask yourself, when you hear about cryptocurrency, how much are you hearing people talking about the value of cryptocurrencies and how much its worth versus the value its providing, versus the actual services and applications that people are using for cryptocurrency? i mean, weve had these last few years where literally billions of dollars have been pouring into this industry. but this, were finding out, really is a problem in search of a solution, because after years of money pouring i...

A lot of people around the world have invested in that and theres reporting about people in countries with unstable currencies who saw cryptocurrency as this place to park their money and get rewards in a stable currency. well, it has proven to not be very stable, and in fact very risky. and people around the world are seeing the money that they put into cryptocurrency fall. >> yeah, and we saw bill gates telling the techcrunch conference this week, the digital asset trends like nfts are, quote,...

As it used to be. in fact, trumps ascendancy in 2016 shook some of that conventional wisdom. but it is true that overall, the republicans have done more in terms of uniting around their candidates, around their leadership, where democrats are a more fractured and divided party. its just a key characteristic of both parties. and it becomes a challenge for democrats when they need that unity, either in an election or an on capitol hill. >> julian zelizer, thank you so much, we appreciate it. >> th...

Realize, hey, this thing might not be as stable and as sure an investment as i thought it was. when that happens, the dominos begin to fall. >> so interesting. this is affecting peoples livelihoods. some of the cryptocurrencies are having to cut jobs. how severe has that been? >> were seeing a serious contraction within the industries themselves. on top of that, wearing see exchanges holding their users funds, saying theyre unable to give the funds to their users. these are their users money and...

Just because they can navigate the obstacles doesnt mean they should have to. citi is committed to investing in opportunities for 10 million women globally by 2025. ♪ ♪ a crypto crash is taking a toll on investor and workers. over the last six months, cryptocurrencies have plummeting, bitcoin falling to $20,000 on friday. the companies are laying off workers as well, 18% at coinbase, 10% at gemini exchange and 5% at crypto.com. jon sarlin is the host of the new business show "nightcap" on

Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Prices: Bitcoin and other major cryptos decline.Insights: South Koreas government is taking a harder look a...