The nomination of Michael “Mike” Selig, who is chief counsel of the Crypto Task Force and senior advisor to Paul Atkin, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as the next chairman for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has apparently been clarified via social media postings by President Trump and others. Over… Read More >>
Crypto-Crime ‘Down Significantly’ in 2023: Chainalysis
“Our data shows that cryptography-related crime is down significantly this year.” So says Chainalysis, the New York City-based blockchain-analytics company. Of course, the crypto-crime goal posts do tend to keep moving, from quarter to quarter and year to year, thanks in part to would-be crypto moguls like Alex Mashinsky, founder of Celsius, a now bankrupt… Read More >>
Crypto Scams Rob Investors of $575M: FTC
Some day digital fraudsters tricking regular folks out of their hard-earned money by promising a big-bucks payday for only a few hundred (or a few thousand) up front will spend a lot of hours inside courtrooms. And a lot of dollars on high-priced lawyers paid to get them out of their legal jams. Today is… Read More >>
Crypto Crime Hits $14B in 2021: Report
Crypto investors beware. The good news: Crypto-crime is “becoming a smaller and smaller part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.” That’s according to a blog post “preview” of the 2022 “Crypto Crime Report” from Chainalysis, a cloud-based, blockchain data and analysis platform provider founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City. The not-so-good news: Crypto crime… Read More >>
