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US charges Chinese pair for laundering $100M in stolen crypto for North Korea
The pair allegedly faked identification documents and forged photographs to open dummy cryptocurrency exchange accounts in ...
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Moonday Mornings: Ex-employee steals $715K in Bitcoin from cryptocurrency fund
Welcome to Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. Take a look ...
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Self-styled 'coyote of Wall Street' gets 33 months in prison for $224K crypto fraud
CabbageTech's CEO has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding cryptocurrency investors. ...
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NY wants to make it easier for cryptocurrency exchanges to list new tokens — but why?
The New York Department of Financial Services wants to update its contentious BitLicense, which regulates cryptocurrency ...
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Moonday Mornings: IRS readies to tax your cryptocurrency — no matter what
It's the start of another week and that means it's time for Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain ...
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Stablecoin businesses ARE money transmitters, says FinCEN chief
Stablecoins fall under FinCEN's remit to safeguard money transmission services, which means issuers must register as such ...
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Brooklyn man sentenced to 18 months in prison after running fraudulent ICOs
A man in the US has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after running two illegal cryptocurrency Initial Coin Offerings ...
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Bitcoin handed a lifeline as China lets cryptocurrency miners off the hook
It's been seven months since China decided it wanted to take steps to curtail Bitcoin mining in the country, but now it's ...
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California man laundered $25M through his own DIY Bitcoin ATM and exchange
A man from the small town of Westwood in California has pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed Bitcoin exchange and ATM, ...
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US government knows you’re buying opioids with Bitcoin — and it doesn’t like it
The US government has released a series of advisory notes, one of which specifically looks at the role played by cryptocurrencies ...
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New York financial regulator sets up new division to police cryptocurrency businesses
The NYDFS has announced a new division which will absorb the regulator's department that oversees cryptocurrency businesses ...
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Data: China has the most blockchain patents, despite banning cryptocurrency
Patents have always been controversial in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. Our recent analysis revealed some interesting ...
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Indian government ban on 'non-sovereign' cryptocurrency would see holders jailed for up to 10 years
A government panel in India has issued a recommendation to ban all "cryptocurrencies created by non-sovereigns," a step which ...
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Donald Trump's critique of Bitcoin is antiquated and irrelevant
US President Donald Trump, known for his complicated relationship with technology and his incessant need to share his ill-advised ...
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Canada relaxes rules for cryptocurrency exchanges despite ongoing QuadrigaCX saga
Reassurance for Canadians: Cryptocurrency exchanges across the nation will now only have to report transfers of more than ...
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California man gets 10 years for selling drugs for Bitcoin on dark web
A US man who sold narcotics on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
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Here's how Binance Coin performed in Q1 2019
Binance Coin only launched a couple of years ago but is alread getting lots of interest. Despite having a poor 2018, it has ...
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WeChat quietly bans cryptocurrency fundraising
The Chinese equivalent of WhatsApp, WeChat, has updated its terms of service to ban merchants from fundraising by using tokens ...
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$356 million in cryptocurrency stolen in first three months of 2019
Cryptocurrency exit scammers and exchange hackers have made a killing this year, and soon they'll have to launder it all... ...
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Finland’s new cryptocurrency regulation forces AML on industry
Cryptocurrency businesses in Finland will now have to register with the country’s financial watchdog.
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Japan finance regulator raids cryptocurrency exchanges in money laundering sweep
Japan's financial watchdog has reportedly raided two major cryptocurrency exchanges, juuust to make sure everything is up ...
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Bitcoin’s price surge pushes cryptocurrency-related stocks into the green
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies weren't the only investments to benefit from the leading coin's recent price jump. Crypto-related ...
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PayPal makes its first blockchain startup investment
The payments giant, PayPal, has invested in Cambridge Blockchain, a startup developing digital identity management software ...
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Cryptocurrency startup Tagomi gets BitLicense to operate in New York
Tagomi Trading LLC, a cryptocurrency venture backed by Paradigm and Pantera Capital, has become the 18th firm to receive ...
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Moonday Morning: Bitcoin dev ordered to prove Craig Wright isn’t Satoshi
It's Monday which means it's Moonday Morning and time to catch up with the top cryptocurrency and blockchain news from over ...
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North Korea amassed small cryptocurrency fortune through hacking, says UN panel
North Korea has obtained some $670 million in virtual and fiat currency in a bid to bypass economic sanctions put in place ...
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The differences between cryptocurrencies, virtual, and digital currencies
Hard Fork put together a primer on the differences between cryptocurrencies, digital, and virtual currencies – three terms ...
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Public pensions back new $40M blockchain fund raised by Morgan Creek
The pension funds of the Fairfax County police and its employees are now invested in blockchain, thanks to a new $40M digital ...
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'Loot boxes' in video games could be giving kids a gambling problem
The number of children with gambling problems has “quadrupled to more than 50,000 in just two years,” according to recent ...
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HODL my beer: Coinbase trademarks the non-word ‘BUIDL’
In a seemingly random move Coinbase has submitted a trademark request for the word "buidl." How long until the memes start ...
