Kraken will stop offering US crypto 'staking' and pay a $30 million penalty after settling with the SEC

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Gensler signaled this year that the SEC should modernize its rules regulating fixed income markets. markets.

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Coinbase CEO points to rumors that the SEC could ban this popular crypto income-generating technique for US retail investors

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Coinbase Ex-Manager Pleads Guilty to Crypto Insider Trading Charges

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It’s 2023 and financial crimes and their consequences have officially come to cryptocurrency. Relatively new on the laundry list of blockchain-based offenses that can lead directly to jail: insider trading.

'Big Short' investor Steve Eisman rings the alarm on the tech-stock rally and slams bitcoin as pointless in a new interview. Here are the 10 best quotes.

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Russia's largest bank is about to debut an Ethereum-based DeFi platform

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People queue outside a branch of Russian state-owned bank Sberbank.

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Crypto industry will 'come up with new things' and national digital currencies are moving ahead despite recent turmoil, BIS says

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FTX's meltdown was painful but necessary for the industry to grow up, bitcoin bull and Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor says

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Michael Saylor is facing a $100 million lawsuit for tax evasion

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Crypto-linked stocks are on a tear, with Coinbase, MicroStrategy, and others up more than 100% in a month as risk appetite returns

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Michael Saylor still sees bitcoin as a safe haven for investors, even after MicroStrategy's holdings shed $1.3 billion in value last year

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MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor.

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Stocks are getting a boost from a key indicator that's been a reliable sign of more gains to come

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Happy Friday, team. I'm senior reporter Phil Rosen. 

In case you missed it, the European Central Bank Thursday made a half-point interest rate hike, marking its fifth consecutive move as part of its inflation-fighting efforts.

EU policymakers plan to make the same sized hike at their meeting in March, similar to expectations for the US central bank to repeat yesterday's rate hike at its next meeting.  

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