News: Coronavirus kills conferences, India un-bans crypto, Bitcoin catches a cold
“FCA are like the SEC If they forgot to do their job, ever” — Ben Munster
Tag: stephen palley
SEC blocks the Telegram ICO — what this means, and what happens now
Telegram’s whole scheme was to skin precisely the retail buyers who securities registration is meant to protect from being ripped off.
News: Bitfinex/Tether v. New York, Cryptopia hack coins moving, HitBTC may be insolvent, Craig Wright copyright registration, SEC v. ICOs, money laundering is still illegal with Bitcoins
How much do you need to annoy a government agency that it starts a whole new press page just to refute your claims?
News: SEC on ICO tokens (they’re probably securities), Vanbex fraud, regulating crypto mining, crypto for care homes
Shocked, shocked to hear of yet more crypto fraud in Canada!
News: Georgia state senator jailed over Bitcoin miners, Bitmain CEOs, stablecoin money laundering, FCA, Kleiman v. Wright, Deltec and Tether, notes from the crash
“In reality, ‘blockchain’ has always just been an attempt to ride crypto’s cool factor. So if coins crash, people stop caring about blockchain.”
News: Kleiman v. Wright, Playboy TV, SEC vs crypto hedge funds, Coinbase gets UK banking, Bitfinex’ed hires Palley, Mt. Gox the Movie, Twitter bans
Featuring the trailer from Effortless French, a.k.a. Mt. Gox the Movie.
News: don’t pay ransomware, China, Japan, ICO plagiarism, fake exchange volume, cryptid-currency
Plus some good recent opinion pieces, and book news.
Bitfinex rattles legal sabres at critics, Tether fails to redeem USDT 1m for dollars
I was reluctant to compare Bitfinex’s public relations moves to Scientology in my Friday post, but today they are threatening to sue critics to shut them up. Rather than release material facts that would assuage concerns. Also, you can’t actually redeem Tethers.
News: ICOpocalypse! SEC, Switzerland, South Korea
And some bloke with a megaphone standing across the street from the Bloomberg office in London, ranting about Bitcoin.