Serious allegations have emerged surrounding the U.S. SEC and Ethereum, leading some key players to assert that the agency might not take Ripple to trial to…
Lawyers for Steven Nerayoff say that, on the day of his arrest, their client was put in a van by the FBI, given a list of names and told to start turning over evidence on the likes of Vitalik Buterin and Caitlin Long.
Experts debate reasons behind recent crypto price surge
Recent gains in the cryptocurrency markets are welcome news for investors, but no one is sure what is behind the growth in their portfolios. A quintet of industry insiders share their best guesses below.
Vaibhav Kadikar, founder and CEO,
, a decentralized prediction market platform:
“We have just about heard every possible angle on why we have this rally in Bitcoin prices, from a mystery $100m concerted order across 3 major exchanges to automatic short trade covering, and even an April fool’s prank that claimed the SEC approving a Bitcoin ETF.
“I believe this is mainly due to the tight trading range over several weeks which dictated a break out, either way, then a small move upwards triggered a short squeeze. While any or all of these may have played a role in sparking the rally, what is interesting to see is that after 48 hours the prices are still stable. This wasn’t a quick rise and fall. So take heart in it an
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Extortionist Pleads Guilty to Crypto Firm Shakedown
Michael Hlady, who claimed to be part of the FBI, CIA, and NSA, threatened to ‘destroy’ a startup.
A New York man has pleaded guilty to being part of an extortion campaign that took millions of dollars’ worth of Ethereum digital assets from a Seattle-based cryptocurrency startup.
Michael Hlady, who falsely claimed to be part of the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Irish Republican Army (IRA), had threatened to destroy the unidentified company if it didn’t give him and a co-conspirator millions of dollars’ worth of ether coins.