Crypto Law

Law360 (July 26, 2021, 8:15 PM EDT) -- A cryptocurrency exchange has asked a New York federal judge for an order preventing Chinese hackers from making fraudulent transfers, following an attack on the Bitcoin SV network earlier...

A U.K.-based insolvency expert says crypto could be dire for the government, The Guardian reports. The reason is because so much of crypto is untaxed and untraceable. This can prevent transparency and encourage fraud when businesses go...

While some Salvadorans situated near Playa El Zonte beach like the new bitcoin tender law implemented by Nayib Bukele’s regime, a number of other citizens dislike the law. This week, regional reports show citizens from El Salvador...

It is just after midnight in Hong Kong, and Sam Bankman-Fried stares at the trading data on his six monitors, watching a global cryptocurrency crash happening in real time.Mr. Bankman-Fried, a 29-year-old from California, often works around...

Law360 (July 22, 2021, 10:35 PM EDT) -- Coinbase and its top brass were hit with a proposed securities class action Thursday over the cryptocurrency platform's move to go public, with one shareholder claiming that Coinbase's offering...

Cryptocurrencies rebounded on Wednesday as short sellers covered positions ahead of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s appearance at The B Word Conference. Bitcoin was trading at around $32,000 at press time and is up 8% over the past...

Written by Gabriela Henriquez Stoikow  on July 20, 2021 Advertisement The Miami-Dade Cryptocurrency Task Force, created in April, now has seven of its planned members appointed after commissioners accepted a report detailing their credentials last week. They...

Law360 (July 19, 2021, 8:08 PM EDT) -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Monday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be part of the regulatory response to emerging cryptocurrency risks and cited "predatory" bank overdraft fee...

At a time when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) frowns on private virtual currencies, the proposal of cryptocurrency bank Cashaa to launch banking operations in India for customers of virtual currencies like Bitcoin from August, through...

A vulnerability of a smart contract in one private DAO fund firstly to the leak of cryptocurrency worth tens of millions of dollars (billions as of today) and then to the hard fork of the second-largest blockchain...