British-Chinese Money Launder Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison For Role in $6B Fraud: FT
Jian Wen, 42, who was alleged to have carrying out the laundering on behalf of her former boss, was found guilty in March
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Binance Money Laundering Trial in Nigeria Pushed to June 20 Due to Executive’s Illness
Binance’s head of financial crimes compliance Tigran Gambaryan is seriously ill, his lawyers said.
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U.S. Supreme Court Loss for Coinbase Leaves Company with Mixed Record
The court went against the U.S. crypto exchange on its latest, highly technical arbitration dispute, but it wasn’t addressing anything significant about the digital assets space.
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Biden Order to Halt China-Tied Bitcoin Mine Beside Nuke Base Came as U.S. Firm Just Bought it
President Biden’s emergency order to halt the Chinese-tied mining on the doorstep of a nuclear-missile base hit days after mining giant CleanSpark struck a deal to buy the property.
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Crypto Community Voices Outrage at Tornado Cash Developer Verdict
Alexey Pertsev, a developer of Tornado Cash, was sentenced to 64 months in prison for money laundering.
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Canada’s ‘Crypto King’ and Associate Arrested, Charged With Fraud in Alleged $30M Ponzi Scheme
Aiden Pleterski, 25, was reportedly kidnapped, beaten and tortured by five of his alleged victims last summer.
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Sonne Finance Token Drops 60% After $20M Exploit on Optimism
Attackers stole ether, velo and stablecoins before developers mitigated the hack and paused operations. Sonne’s markets on the Base blockchain were not affected.
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Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum Wallet Proposal, Scribbled in 22 Minutes, Gets Positive Reviews
After a technical proposal to improve Ethereum wallets met with some opposition, a familiar figure swooped in last week to devise an alternative.
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Solana Memes, GameStop Stock Jumps 44% in Premarket as ‘Roaring Kitty’ Returns on X
Stocks related to Keith Gill surged while opportunistic developers issued scores of göğüs coins on various blockchains to capitalize on the hype.
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Trump’s Pro-Crypto Bluster at NFT Gala Lacked Policy Substance
At the Mar-a-Lago dinner, Trump wooed a constituency Biden has thoroughly snubbed. But the GOP candidate isn’t exactly fluent in crypto policy.