Financial Stability Report: The FTX turmoil, RBI said, revealed that crypto is highly volatile, exhibits high correlations with equities and does not act as a hedge against inflation
Cryptocurrency news: Both Bitcoin and Ethereum have been trading below crucial support levels
The cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried can post USD 250 million bond and live in his parents' home in California while he awaits trial on charges that he swindled investors and looted customer deposits on his FTX trading platform, a judge said on Thursday. Assistant US Attorney Nicolas Roos said in US District Court in Manhattan that Bankman-Fried, 30, perpetrated a fraud of epic proportions. Roos proposed strict bail terms, including a USD 250 million bond and house arrest at his parents' home in Palo Alto, California. An important reason for allowing bail was that Bankman-Fried agreed to waive extradition, Roos said. Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein agreed to the bond and also approved the house arrest proposal. He also said Bankman-Fried would be required to get an electronic monitoring bracelet before leaving the Manhattan courthouse. Bankman-Fried wore a suit and tie in court and sat between his attorneys. Two US marshals sat behind him. Bankman-Fried, arrest
Bitcoin halving among primary reasons that may lead to more firms shutting down
Sam Bankman-Fried signed his surrender documents on Tuesday, he will sign a separate set of papers finalising his waiver of rights to fight extradition
The Enforcement Directorate has attached proceeds of crime worth Rs 907 crore and arrested three persons in cases related to money laundering by crypto exchanges, Parliament was informed on Monday. Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said Central GST officers have detected Goods and Services Tax (GST) evasion worth Rs 87.60 crore by 12 crypto exchanges. Recovery of Rs 110.97 crore, including interest and penalty, has been made. The minister said further investigation is under process in eight cases and four cases are closed on payment of tax along with interest and penalty. Further, in case of crypto exchange Zanmai Labs Pvt Ltd, known as WazirX, assets worth Rs 289.68 crore have been seized from the exchange and its Directors for violation of the provisions of the foreign exchange management act (FEMA), Chaudhary said. In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, the minister said the Directorate of Enforcement is investigating several cases related to crypto .
The company said that it intends to post its PoR every quarter and will soon launch a live dashboard to show its reserves and liabilities in real-time for investors
Women from West Bengal, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh were involved in the most crypto trades on the platform: Crypto exchange WazirX
The disgraced cryptocurrency entrepreneur, whose empire made him a billionaire before it collapsed and he was arrested, was a major political donor
On December 15, after the US inflation of 7.1 per cent for November was announced, Bitcoin touched its five-week high of $18,400
CoinSwitch is expected to launch its new products by 2023 to become the first Indian crypto company to diversify into other asset classes
Whether increased regulation would have prevented the spectacular collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX was fiercely debated at a hearing of the Senate's banking committee Wednesday. However, new legislation is potentially on the way. Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced at the hearing bipartisan legislation aimed at cracking down on cryptocurrencies being used in money laundering. The legislation, co-sponsored by Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas, would require cryptocurrency exchanges to verify customer identities like banks and other financial institutions do. Crypto has become the preferred tool for terrorists, for ransomware gangs, for drug dealers and for rogue states that want to launder money, said Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat, adding that crypto doesn't get a pass to help the world's worst criminals no matter how many television ads they run or how many political contributions they make. Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis, of Wyoming, said she and Democratic Sen. ...
That tweak in the code got the attention of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and charged Bankman-Fried with fraud
Defers the classification of crypto assets under GST regime
Bankman-Fried also loaned McCaffery $16 million, some of which helped him purchase property in the Bahamas, where FTX is headquartered, according to Axios
The total market cap has improved marginally from $855 billion last Friday to $859 billion on December 9
Pythagoras Investment Management LLC has two funds that have been rare bright spots in a market that's been eviscerated by a number of scandals
He said that this can fix the wrongs caused by the excessive centralisation, "which let down hundreds of thousands of cryptocurrency users"
Bharat Web3 Association says collapse of USA's FTX highlights 'lacunae in corporate governance'
BlockFi said in a statement that it will use the Chapter 11 process to "focus on recovering all obligations owed to BlockFi by its counterparties, including FTX and associated corporate entities"