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Former Overstock CEO Sells His Entire 13% Stake in the Firm for $90M
19.9.2019
Weeks after resigning from Overstock, Patrick Byrne sells his 13% stake in the firm to move to gold and crypto trading
Snowden: US Seizing My Book Revenue is ‘Good for Bitcoin’
18.9.2019
Former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor Edward Snowden is being sued by the Department of Justice (DoJ) for his latest memoir. The agency won’t stop Metropolitan Books from publishing Snowden’s new book but the government will take the revenue he earns from the memoir...
Former Hockey Winger Gets nabbed for Crypto Fraud
18.9.2019
Moscow court ordered on September 16th that Igor Musatov is to be detained for one month in accusations of $800,000 fraud in cryptocurrencies. The CEO of a firm was unable to amend relations with Musatov, who now has taken the matter to legal authorities and lead to his nabbing. TASS,...
CFTC Appoints Former Coinbase Exec as Director of Market Oversight
17.9.2019
Coinbase vice president Dorothy D. DeWitt will now serve as director of the division of market oversight at the U.S. CFTC
Developer Reveals Token Reward Platform Fueled by Bitcoin Cash
12.9.2019
There’s a new crypto platform called Honeypoints that just released for beta testing on Apple’s Testflight. The digital currency application created by two former Bitcoin.com employees aims to fuel merchant adoption with loyalty rewards. The Honeypoints app is meant to stimulate retail...
BitMEX Operator HDR Global Hires Former BNP Paribas Exec
11.9.2019
BitMEX parent firm HDR Global hires former BNP Paribas’ General Counsel Derek Gobel as the group’s new general counsel
UK Former Brexit Negotiator, Olly Robbins to Join Goldman Sachs
10.9.2019
Over the course of the past three years, the United Kingdom’s political leadership has been in the middle of a meltdown due to the Brexit referendum. After the resignation of the then Prime Minister David Cameron, the mantle was taken up by Theresa May, and her main objective was to secure a deal...
Former US Congressman Calls for Nuanced Cryptocurrency Regulations
9.9.2019
Former congressman Harold J. Ford says that lawmakers and regulators should develop clear regulations for digital currencies
Gemini Hires Former Morgan Stanley Exec as New Chief Compliance Officer
4.9.2019
Former Morgan Stanley executive Noah Perlman has joined the Gemini crypto exchange as its new chief compliance officer
Mike Tyson Vs. Fight to Fame: Is the Former Champion Involved in Crypto?
25.8.2019
Complicated Fight to Fame: What is the connection between Tyson, cryptocurrency, an Interpol-wanted fraudster and Hollywood?
Ex-Morgan Stanley Exec Joins Former Colleagues at Shenzhen Crypto Firm
24.8.2019
Ex-Morgan Stanley Asia head of derivatives Jeffrey Wang joined his former colleagues at Shenzhen-based crypto firm
Crypto Custodian BitGo Hires Former Xapo Vice-President as CRO
19.8.2019
Former Xapo senior vice-president Pete Najarian will now serve as BitGo’s chief revenue officer
Ron Paul Slams Fednow Payment System and Encourages Crypto Competition
15.8.2019
Ron Paul, the muckraking former congressman from Texas, is stirring things up once again, this time taking aim at the new real-time digital payment system proposed last week by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Presented as an innovative solution by government and media voices, the cryptosphere received...
Blockchain Firm Findora Hires Former Coinbase CTO as Strategic Advisor
14.8.2019
A former CTO of American crypto platform Coinbase has joined blockchain firm Findora as a strategic advisor
Former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan Joins DeFi Blockchain Project Findora
14.8.2019
Balaji Srinivasan, the former CTO of Coinbase, has just joined decentralized finance blockchain project Findora as a strategic adviser
Indian Supreme Court Heard Crypto Case in Depth Today
8.8.2019
The Indian supreme court finally heard the crypto case today after postponing it several times. The court addressed the government’s crypto policy as well as the writ petitions challenging the banking restriction by the central bank. The latter was heard in some detail while the former...
Cryptophyl.com Launches Dedicated Exchange for SLP Tokens and BCH
8.8.2019
The team behind the former cryptocurrency exchange Voltaire recently announced the launch of a new trading platform specifically designed for Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) tokens. Three weeks ago the new exchange called Cryptophyl.com launched its trading engine and the first SLP token supported...
Facebook Engages Former Aide of US Senate Banking Committee to Campaign for Its Cryptocurrency Libra Project
7.8.2019
Facebook has engaged Former Aide of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee to campaign for its new Libra cryptocurrency venture. The U.S. Senate’s ongoing hearings on cryptocurrency had a few representatives state that they are supportive of the U.S. driving in crypto and blockchain, while others...
Facebook Hires Former Aide to US Sen. Mike Crapo to Lobby for Libra
6.8.2019
Facebook hires Susan Stoner Zook, former assistant of Senate Banking Committee Chair Mike Crapo, to join Libra’s lobbying team
Facebook Hires US Senator’s Former Aide to Lobby for Libra Cryptocurrency
6.8.2019
Facebook has hired a former aide to the chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee to lobby for its Libra cryptocurrency project