Woman Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison After Failed Bitcoin Murder-for-Hire Plot
A woman has been sentenced to over eight years in prison after her murder-for-hire plot using bitcoin fell apart. Melody Sasser attempted to use...
‘Microsoft of Blockchains:’ Bitwise Doubles Down on Ethereum’s Fundamentals
Bitwise, a crypto index fund and ETF provider, believes that ethereum has the fundamentals needed to recover from its bad price performance compared to...
Court Orders New York Man to Pay $36M for Forex, Digital Asset Fraud
William Koo Ichioka has been ordered to pay over $36 million after admitting to a forex and digital asset fraud scheme. His scam, which...
US Sentences Nigerian Darknet Fraud Leader to Five Years in Prison for $6M Scheme
A Nigerian national has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for his role in a massive darknet fraud scheme that intended to...
FATF Urges India to Strengthen Virtual Asset Regulation
India has achieved a high level of technical compliance with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards, addressing illicit finance, money laundering, and terrorist financing....
JPMorgan Forecasts Potential 50bps Rate Cut in November Following Recent Fed Move
JPMorgan Chase sees the possibility of the Federal Reserve making another significant rate cut in November, possibly by 50 basis points. The bank, which...
US Company Settles Salvadoran Coffee Purchase With Bitcoin
According to information from the Salvadoran Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Compass Coffee, a U.S.-based coffee company, has completed an international purchase of Salvadoran coffee...
Blackrock’s Ishares Bitcoin Options Get the SEC Green Light
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has granted approval for the listing and trading of options on the Ishares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), a...
Gold’s Bull Rally Continues as Interest Rates Get Deep Cuts
The gold bull rally continued this Wednesday, as prices in COMEX reached all-time highs, surpassing $2,625 per ounce. Prices slingshotted up after the Federal...
Securitize Selects Wormhole as Official Blockchain Interoperability Provider
Real-world-asset (RWA) tokenization infrastructure provider Securitize has chosen Wormhole as its official interoperability provider to facilitate cross-chain transfers for all tokenized assets on its...