• Ripple settle SEC lawsuit
    Rippe CEO Brad Garlinghouse says he's spoiling for a fight with the SEC, but a filing suggests the company might pay to make it go away (Photo: Leo Jakobson)
    Regulation,  Ripple,  XRP

    Ripple angling to settle SEC lawsuit?

    Charged with selling XRP as an illegally unregistered security, the international payments firm has been pugnacious but said it was open to settling in a filing released Monday

    February 16, 2021 /

    Previous discussions took place under former SEC chair Jay Cayton and his top lieutenants, whereas the new acting SEC chairman, Gary Gensler, has a more positive outlook, as well as a much deeper understanding of cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology. Gensler spent the last few years teaching cryptocurrency and blockchain at MIT, and has been a fixture at industry events.

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  • XRP pump draws thousands
    The pump that was promised for 8:30 a.m. ET ended a couple of hours earlier (Photo: CoinMarketCap)
    Regulation,  XRP

    XRP pump draws in thousands, and victims lose millions

    Some crypto enthusiasts are coming to terms with sizeable losses after XRP plummeted at a time when it was meant to surge

    February 1, 2021 /

    In the darkest corners of Crypto Twitter, on the r/WallStreetBets Reddit page, across a myriad of Telegram chats and in Discord messaging rooms, thousands of inexperienced investors were being sold a promise: buy at this time and riches will follow.

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  • Robinhood gamstop defi golden moment
    Robinhood CEO Vlad Tepev did not enjoy that (Photo: CNN)
    Cryptocurrencies,  Opinion

    GameStop is DeFi’s golden moment

    When Robinhood shut off its customers in what seemed to be a move to protect its hedge fund masters, the ‘little guy’ focused stock trading app opened the door to crypto’s decentralization

    January 29, 2021 /

    “This was a shot across the bow for institutional investors everywhere,” said Peter Smith, cofounder and CEO of the decade-old cryptocurrency exchange Blockchain.com. “There’s incredible power in decentralized groups of individuals and the future of finance will be built less like Wall Street and more like the internet: by a decentralized group of individuals.”

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  • Yellen confirmed Treasury Secretary
    Will Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen be good for crypto? The jury is still out (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
    Cryptocurrencies,  People,  Politics,  Regulation

    Janet Yellen confirmed as Treasury Secretary

    While her top financial regulators have strong pro-crypto backgrounds, Quantum Economics’ Mati Greenspan fears that Yellen’s collaboration with international regulators could ‘have very harsh consequences for all of crypto’

    January 25, 2021 /

    Last week, Yellen calmed some fears that arose after she said in her Jan. 21 testimony before the Senate Finance Committee that she wanted to “curtail” the “malign activities” that for which digital assets have been used.

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