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Cryptocurrency and the U.S. Agencies’ Risks Advisories

14 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Coastline17

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) noted the risksof crypto with having the following: 1. Operational risks, with having many different platforms,are not subject to supervision that otherwise ap...

Gram, Telegram's cryptocurrency, is worth nothing, the SEC supports it

30 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.

I have spoken many times about the lawsuit involving Telegram for the issuance of its token (Gram), dragged onto the defendants' bench by the SEC for having evaded the US legislation governing the issue of securities; On January 27, a new hearing was...

The SEC launches an anathema against IEOs and informs US citizens of the risks of these tools

16 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.

On Tuesday, January 14, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sent a warning from its Investor Education and Advocacy wing, urging citizens to be wary of initial exchange-managed coin offers (IEOs). More specifically, in the document in q...

Telegram requests up to a maximum of seven weeks to provide the financial data requested in the SEC case

12 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.

The latest installment of what is set to be the catchphrase of this 2020, the cause involving telegram and the SEC, had seen the giant of the messaging services reject the request advances by the SEC to view the documents that attest to how the money...

SEC Vs TON, the deposition of the Telegram founder expected between 7 and 8 January 2020

26 Nov 2019 1 minute read 1 comment Roberto D.

Kevin Castel, judge of the southern district of New York, has ordered that the deposition of Pavel Durov (CEO and founder of telegram) for the case that sees the SEC as opposed to TON takes place between 7 and 8 January next; Ilya Perekopsky, vice pr...

EOS: A New Crypto Era "Dawn" or Another Darkness? (Lights out)

4 Oct 2019 6 minute read 2 comments Thunderboltkid

Qualifier. I have followed EOS since its inception and have never held EOS. The article below is excellent. One which nicely dissects in great detail the machinations "under the hood" of EOS's Musical Chairs like "Proof of Stake" Game. So Hats off to...

Is XRP a Security?

26 Sep 2019 6 minute read 1 comment Gustas_X_R_P

Functioning primarily as a cross-border payments network that can facilitate large international transfers in a matter of seconds, Ripple‘s XRP token has stirred much debate as to its status as a security. Indeed, the token has several distinctions f...

Titanium Blockchain: Why It Failed

22 Sep 2019 5 minute read 1 comment MintDice.com

On May 22, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint against Titanium Blockchain, an Israeli start up in the middle of its ICO at the time. According to the SEC, the firm had violated the commission’s registration and...

Cryptocurrency securities classification and why decentralization on all levels is key

9 Aug 2019 3 minute read 0 comments Allen Walters

Avoiding a SEC Security classification is important as US regulations cause exchanges to exclude possible securities cryptocurrencies from the US market. Bittrex geo-fensed about 80 coins. These are not tradeable in the US since a few weeks. Binance...

SEC Hires Contractors To Run Nodes For All The major Blockchain

2 Aug 2019 2 minute read 0 comments cyprain

The SEC has ramped up its surveillance by hiring contractors who will run nodes for all of the major blockchains. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeks quotes from contractors to run Bitcoin and Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Stel...