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NYU Prof. Nouriel Roubini and BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes, as they appeared in a digital flyer (via BitMEX).
Cryptocurrencies, United States
Report: CFTC investigating BitMEX for trading violations
Potential suit comes days after CEO Arthur Hayes tangled with NYU professor and cryptocurrency critic Nouriel Roubini
July 19, 2019 /
On Tuesday, NYU Professor and prominent cryptocurrency critic Nouriel Roubini penned a column titled “The Great Crypto Heist,” in which he savaged a frequent target, cryptocurrency derivatives platform BitMEX, as both corrupt and crooked.
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Leo Jakobson
Here's a chart of GBP/USD but it looks like a chart of anything that can be charted (via Pixabay).
Cryptocurrencies
CryptoCompare starts ranking good, bad, and ugly exchanges
Top 10 cryptocurrency exchanges announced after grading after the data and indices provider studied more than 100 trading platforms worldwide
June 12, 2019 /
Calling the cryptocurrency trading business ripe with fraud and manipulation, cryptocurrency data and indices provider CryptoCompare has begun rating the reliability of exchanges.
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Leo Jakobson
Bitcoin
The Tweets of April: Courthouse becomes new battlefield for Bitcoin Cash
Legal attacks by the central powers of Bitcoin SV lead to an alliance seeking to kick it out of major cryptocurrency exchanges
April 19, 2019 /
Crypto billionaire Craig Wright filed a £100,000 libel suit against “What Bitcoin Did” podcast host Peter McCormack on April 18, following a twitter-based argument about the real identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Leo Jakobson
(Kevin Sanders for Modern Consensus)
Asia & Australia, Bitcoin
In light of China news, April Fools’ Bitcoin rally starts making sense
Once again, someone with a lot of access may have known something
April 9, 2019 /
Last week’s run-up in Bitcoin prices seemed like it would remain a mystery. Now comes word that China is contemplating a ban on mining and it all starts to make sense.
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Lawrence Lewitinn