Cointelegraph.com News - 29 November 2023, 8:38 pm
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation. U.S. regulators have sanctioned crypto mixer Sinbad and seized its website over allegations that it laundered money for North Korea’s Lazarus Group. In other news, Binance has no license to operate in the Philippines, the country’s financial regulator said, and bankrupt crypto lender Genesis and Digital Currency Group have reached a deal that could end Genesis’ lawsuit against DCG.U.S. regulators sanction SinbadThe U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned…Read More
Cointelegraph.com News - 29 November 2023, 8:20 pm
Ivan Turogin and Sergei Potapenko are suspected in a $575 million fraud case, but they can’t be exposed to U.S. detention conditions. Ivan Turogin and Sergei Potapenko, co-founders of Bitcoin cloud miner HashFlare, have successfully appealed their extradition from Estonia to the United States, where the two face 18 counts of fraud and money laundering. The Tallinn Circuit Court overturned a lower court’s order on Nov. 29, according to a local press report.According to the United States Justice Department, HashFlare, which operated from 2015 to 2019, was a Ponzi scheme with hundreds of thousands of victims paying in a total…Read More
Cointelegraph.com News - 29 November 2023, 8:10 pm
Wally Adeyemo cited a recent settlement with crypto exchange Binance and sanctions against crypto mixer Sinbad in calling for an expansion of the U.S. Treasury’s authority. Wally Adeyemo, Deputy Secretary of the United States Treasury, said his department is looking into new sanctions tools to pursue bad actors in the crypto space, citing a recent settlement with Binance.In prepared remarks for the Blockchain Association’s Policy Summit on Nov. 29, Adeyemo said the U.S. Treasury had called on Congress to allow sanctions in which an entity could be fully cut off from the U.S. financial system. The Deputy Treasury Secretary said…Read More