CFTC slaps Tether and Bitfinex with a combined $42.5 million fine
The settlement triggered concerns that the CFTC's role in stablecoin regulation could be misunderstood by the public.
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Tether and Bitfinex Ordered to Pay $42.5 Million Fine by the CFTC
The United States Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered Tether and Bitfinex to pay fines worth $42.5 million. In a release from today, October 15th, Tether Holdings Limited,…
Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain Criticized Over Long Outage — Block Signing Issue Related to Upgrade
On Tuesday, cryptocurrency supporters on social media and forums discussed Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain product as block signing had been down for over 20 hours. While Blockstream had noted the sidechain…
Is $40K Bitcoin the new $10K? BTC holds $43K support as exchange Bitfinex halts trading
An unexpected problem causes Bitfinex to temporarily shut down, with Bitcoin price action undoing gains in the process.
Tether scores win in class action case as court dismisses RICO claims
"Litigation will expose this case for what it is: a clumsy attempt at a money grab, which recklessly harms the whole cryptocurrency ecosystem," said Tether.
Bitfinex Paid Over $23 Million in ETH Fees to Send $100K Worth of USDT
The cryptocurrency market never ceases to amaze. One of the most popular centralized exchanges – Bitfinex – spent over $23 million worth of fees to send $100K USDT using Ethereum’s…
Bitfinex launches the first L2 bridge from CeFi to DeFi
The bridge will facilitate ERC-20 token transactions between centralized and decentralized exchanges.
Custodial Lightning Network Service Attack Discovered by LN ‘Newbie’ — Hacker Strikes 6 LN Custodians
On September 18, a Redditor posted to the r/bitcoin forum and explained how he discovered a way to “attack [the] lightning Network’s custodial services.” The Reddit account dubbed “Reckless Satoshi”…
HUMAN Protocol (HMT) Announces Listing on Bitfinex
September 16th, 2021 09:00 UTC – The HUMAN Protocol Foundation, the team behind HUMAN Protocol, have announced today that the Protocol’s native utility token, HMT, is listed on Bitfinex. Bitfinex…