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The allegations of the founder of BitMEX highlight the risks for DeFi

[ad_2][ad_1] In October, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed law enforcement actions against entities and individuals who own and operate the Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), a trading platform for cryptocurrency derivatives. The CFTC claims that since 2014 BitMEX has operated an …

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Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith fights North Korea’s support allegations against the US

[ad_2][ad_1] Ethereum developer and Wikiscanner creator Virgil Griffith filed a motion last week to dismiss the US government’s allegations of “helping” the North Korean government, documents released last week showed. Griffith was arrested in November last year after speaking at a conference on North Korean cryptocurrency. Authorities claimed to have …

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Filecoin creator denies strike allegations

[ad_2][ad_1] Juan Benet, the creator of the Filecoin blockchain-based data storage platform, has called allegations that the miners of his token have been on strike since last week “nonsense”. According to a report by 8btc.com, five of Filecoin’s largest miners have shut down thousands of platforms to protest the platform’s …

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