Topic: cryptocurrency

US SEC out for justice over Steven Seagal's cryptocurrency marketing

US SEC out for justice over Steven Seagal's cryptocurrency marketing

Chris Prentice, Reuters
Posted at Feb 28 06:40 AM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Steven Seagal, the star of action movies including “Above the Law” and “Out for Justice,” has agreed to pay $314,000 to resolve charges of “unlawfully touting” a cryptocurrency offering, the U.S. securities regulator said on Thursday. Read more »

Bitcoin loses steam, keeps love from cybercriminals

Bitcoin loses steam, keeps love from cybercriminals

Nathaniel Popper, The New York Times
Posted at Jan 29 08:44 AM

The continuing growth of illegal transactions underscores the difficulties that Bitcoin has had in moving past its reputation as a refuge for scoundrels, even as Wall Street institutions have begun buying and selling the digital tokens. Read more »

Maduro bids to revive Venezuela's 'petro' cryptocurrency

Maduro bids to revive Venezuela's 'petro' cryptocurrency

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 15 08:20 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday decreed that airlines flying from Caracas must pay for fuel in Venezuela's ailing "petro" cryptocurrency, which he ordered to be more widely used in the cash-strapped South American country. Read more »

Cryptocurrency investors want dead executive exhumed

Cryptocurrency investors want dead executive exhumed

Liam Stack, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 18 08:16 AM

After Gerald W. Cotten died last year, his clients at the cryptocurrency exchange Quadriga CX found themselves unable to gain access to at least $250 million in their accounts. The company’s operations were encrypted, and he was the only person who knew the passwords needed to move the funds, the company said.   Read more »

Singapore proposes to regulate bitcoin futures

Singapore proposes to regulate bitcoin futures

Reuters
Posted at Nov 20 07:08 PM

Singapore's central bank plans to bring bitcoin and other similar cryptocurrency futures traded on approved exchanges under its regulation in response to interest from international institutional investors, it said on Wednesday. Read more »

More companies back away from Facebook's Libra coin

More companies back away from Facebook's Libra coin

Glenn Chapman, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 12 09:12 AM

Credit card giants Visa and Mastercard, online marketplace eBay and digital payments firm Stripe each announced they had changed their minds about being founding members of the Libra Association assembled to promote the digital currency. Read more »

Pac Token

Pac Token

Maria Tan, AFP
Posted at Sep 02 03:16 PM

Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao (3rd left) raises a toast with (left to right) his business manager Arnord Vegafria, Jeffrey Lin and Sean Wong of GCOX during the launching of his own cryptocurrency "Pac Token" at a sports center in Manila on Sunday.  Read more »

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