The alleged mastermind behind cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex’s missing $850 million is poised to cop a plea. What Reginald Fowler is getting—or who he is giving up—remains to be seen.
Google and PayPal veteran Mike Blandina has been appointed CEO of bitcoin futures firm Bakkt, following Kelly Loeffler's appointment to the U.S. Senate. He plans add digital assets other than bitcoin to its offerings in 2020.
Editor’s Note: With $3.6 billion in bitcoin on the line, nChain founder and self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto’s Craig Wright is about to argue that he shouldn’t be fined $650,000 for lying in court, because he didn’t. The court filing, which Modern Consensus has seen before it enters the public record, is part of Wright’s attempt to fend off a claim on half of a cache of 1,000,000 bitcoin mined in the early days of bitcoin by its creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright is being sued by the estate of his late partner, Dave Kleiman. So far Wright has been hammered in court. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who oversaw a pre-trial stage of the…
Maksim Zaslavskiy was sentenced to 18 months in prison on November 18 for conspiracy to commit securities fraud in the RECoin and Diamond initial coin offerings.
