March 06, 2022
Retail Investor Interest in NFTs, Metaverse Lowest Since October, Report...
The interest in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) might be experiencing a cooling-off period, according to a Sunday (March 6) report from CryptoPotato. NFTs were a hot commodity last year, and the...
February 21, 2022
PYMNTS Crypto Basics Series: How to Lose Your Crypto Without...
Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency are words that most people have at least heard of since the industry exploded into the mainstream public consciousness in 2021. Over the course of this...
February 18, 2022
Will FBI’s New Crypto Crime Unit Bust Industry’s Mainstream Image?
In the long term, the FBI’s announcement Thursday (Feb. 17) that is has formed a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team will be a good thing for the digital assets industry. In...
February 16, 2022
NFT Chargeback Exclusion Points to Growing Concerns Over Fraud
Hermès Birkin bags start at $12,000 and stretch into the stratospheric from there. In December, an artist sold a nonfungible token (NFT) featuring an image of a reimagined Birkin for...
February 15, 2022
Privacy Coin Monero May Be Facing Security Concerns of its...
As the most effective of the so-called privacy coins, Monero is designed specifically to make it impossible for anyone to trace by breaking the chain connecting one transaction to another....
February 14, 2022
Judge Orders Man Detained Until Trial in NY Crypto Laundering...
A federal judge, Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, has ordered the pretrial detention for a defendant, Ilya Lichtenstein, arrested on conspiring to launder billions in stolen bitcoin, The Wall...
February 09, 2022
PYMNTS Crypto Crime Series: Bitfinex Using $3.6B Seized in Hacking...
The timing of the arrests of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan on charges that they stole $4.5 billion in bitcoin from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 couldn’t be more auspicious....
February 08, 2022
Today in Crypto: Crypto Industry Expected to Boost Political Spending;...
Digital wealth management platform Betterment announced Tuesday (Feb. 8) that it will buy automated crypto portfolio provider Makara. In the press release, Betterment CEO Sarah Levy said Makara “is to...
February 08, 2022
Two New Yorkers Arrested for Alleged Conspiracy to Launder $4.5B...
In what has been called the largest financial seizure in history, a New York couple was arrested in Manhattan for an alleged conspiracy to launder $4.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency,...