Gizmodo : Crypto, Politics

President Joe Biden vetoed a resolution late Friday that passed through both the U.S. House and Senate and was widely supported by the cryptocurrency industry.

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Wisconsin has officially become the first state to buy bitcoin, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. And while $98 million isn’t considered a lot of money for a state pension fund, it’s still a notable move given how notoriously volatile cryptocurrency investing can be.

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Cryptocurrency cleaned up its act this week as spot Bitcoin ETFs made their Wall Street debut in January. The digital tokens are looking almost unrecognizable from what the industry represented just a few years ago, leading to the question, is Bitcoin still crypto?

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Well, that’s one way to see your investment pay off. In 2014, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, suffered a notorious hack that stole 850,000 Bitcoins from the platform. Victims are finally starting to get their money back on Tuesday, nearly 10 years later. However, some are reporting Mt. Gox…

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The founders of cryptocurrency exchanges face a mountain of regulatory challenges and billions in personal losses.

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Binance is once again fighting off regulators, claiming the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) lawsuit is an overreach of U.S. law. The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world says the agency is trying to regulate foreign individuals and corporations operating outside the US.

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The trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried reached its halfway point, and a flurry of incriminating evidence, emotional testimonies, and odd tales have surfaced in the last three weeks.

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A forensic accountant at Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial tried piecing together where $9 billion of missing FTX customer funds went on Wednesday. “Oh, yes,” said the accountant when asked if FTX ever misused customer funds.