U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash August 8, 2022 By Christopher Bing and Daphne Psaledakis The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash, accusing it of helping hackers, including from...
Gemini, Seeing Insurance As Key to Future of Virtual Currency, Starts Own Captive January 16, 2020 By Suzanne Barlyn U.S. virtual currency firm Gemini Trust Company announced on Thursday that it has launched its own insurance unit to boost...
Federal Judge Rules Cryptocurrency Falls Under Securities Law September 12, 2018 By Brendan Pierson U.S. securities law can be used to prosecute fraud cases over cryptocurrency offerings, a New York federal judge ruled on...
Coincheck Will Start Compensating 260,000 Victims of $500M Cryptocurrency Heist March 9, 2018 By Hideki Sagiike and Yuji Nakamura Coincheck Inc. said it will start compensating users who had their cryptocurrency stolen beginning as soon as next week, as...
Bipartisan Momentum Building in Congress for Cryptocurrency Regulations February 22, 2018 By David Morgan Jolted by the global investment craze over bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, U.S. lawmakers are moving to consider new rules that...
New York Working to Deter Fraud, Manipulation in Virtual Currency Markets February 16, 2018 New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has issued guidance reminding all virtual currency entities licensed by New York State,...
Insurers May Not be Able to Avoid Blockchain, Virtual Currencies ‘Sweeping Through Industry’ February 14, 2018 By Elizabeth Blosfield Insurers need to be thinking about blockchain technology and virtual currencies like bitcoin and how to approach these areas of...
New York Regulator Approves New Virtual Currency Exchange May 10, 2016 New York state has approved regulations allowing a new virtual currency called Ether. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, and the...
New York Grants Charter to Winklevoss-Backed Bitcoin Exchange October 6, 2015 By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss Gemini Trust Company, founded by investors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, has been granted a license to operate as a chartered...
New York Regulator Issues 1st Virtual Currency License to Company September 25, 2015 New York State regulators have approved their first license to a company dealing in virtual currency such as bitcoin. Circle...