Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), the country’s securities regulator, has confirmed to The Block that it views XRP as a cryptocurrency and not as a security. The question has become relevant recently in light of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s allegation that by selling XRP the firm engaged in sales of unregistered securities — …
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Brian Brooks, the former chief legal officer of Coinbase, liquidated $4.6 million worth of stock options when he left the cryptocurrency exchange in March for a top role at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Bloomberg reported the news on Tuesday, citing Brooks’ financial disclosures filed with the government. Besides the stock …
As May concluded, the cryptocurrency market took a sigh of relief as it was able to close on a positive note. The fifth month of the year saw volatility creep back into the market, contributing to drastic changes in the trading activities of the industry’s users. Similarly, the sudden push in Bitcoin’s price provided a …
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Data provider Nomics is using machine learning to predict the future prices of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. Launched Thursday, the 7-Day Asset Price Prediction feed will give an outlook on future crypto prices based on purpose-built algorithms and the firm’s API, Nomics CEO Clay Collins told CoinDesk in an interview. “There are a lot of poor …
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Well-known crypto market players and companies were hit by a barrage of new lawsuits filed Friday in New York federal court. Eleven new putative class actions were filed on April 3 by the Roche Freedman law firm in the Southern District of New York. They separately name Binance, Civic, BProtocol, Status, Block.one, KayDex, Quantstamp, BiBox, …