Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 3 years ago
The FTX brouhaha continues and this time, unsurprisingly, millions of dollars in cash and assets belonging to the crypto exchange’s former big boss has been confiscated by United States authorities.
Federal authorities have seized $150 million...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 3 years ago
European authorities detained 15 suspected crypto scam individuals and shuttered a large-scale operation of call center networks that allegedly stole hundreds of millions of euros from victims by selling counterfeit digital currencies.
According to E...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph β - 3 years ago
The Justice Department said it had seized 55,273,469 shares of Robinhood and more than $20 million in U.S. currency as part of the criminal case against Sam Bankman-Fried....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to stealing over 712 bitcoin that was “seized” by the U.S. government in another criminal case. He has agreed to forfeit some bitcoin, ether, and dogecoin as part of his plea. “Due to th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is in the process of seizing Robinhood shares, worth about $460 million, that are linked to former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). “We believe that these assets are not property of the bankruptcy estate or...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 3 years ago
The United States Department of Justice is now stepping in to take control of matters in the ongoing brouhaha involving the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX and other parties.
The DOJ is now working on a plan to seize Robinhood Markets shares related...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The Securities Commission of the Bahamas has disputed FTX’s claim that the value of the cryptocurrencies it seized from the bankrupt crypto exchange was not $3.5 billion. The new FTX chief’s “continued lack of diligence when making...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph β - 3 years ago
Officials reportedly told a bankruptcy judge they were in the process of seizing 56 million shares of Robinhood tied to FTX and its former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried. The...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 3 years ago
MEXC Venture’s $20 million ecosystem fund targets support for key projects on Layer 1 blockchain Sei Network.
Sei Network secured $5 million in August from investors such as Coinbase Ventures and Multicoin Capital.
The platform plans to suppor...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph β - 3 years ago
A layer 1 blockchain designed for trading, Sei Network previously raised $5 million in funding in August. According to a blog post published on Jan. 4, Singapore-base...