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Ripple Doubles Contribution to Fairshake PAC to Promote Crypto in 2024 Elections

Ripple announced a $25 million contribution to Fairshake, a federal super Political Action Committee (PAC) supporting pro-crypto political candidates in the 2024 elections. This follows a similar $25 million contribution…

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US Jury Convicts Two in $8M Crypto-Linked Dark Web Drug Scheme

A federal jury in Salt Lake City convicted Oluwole Adegboruwa and Enrique Isong, foreign nationals, of multiple drug-related charges. From 2016 to 2019, they generated over $8 million in cryptocurrency,…

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Tokyo-Listed Metaplanet to Buy Additional Bitcoin for Its Treasury

Metaplanet, a publicly traded corporation listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, announced on Tuesday that its board of directors passed a resolution to purchase an additional 250 million yen (approximately…

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Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced to 7.5 Years for Criminal Charges

Former FTX executive Ryan Salame was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison by Judge Lewis Kaplan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New…

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Trump Inquired if Bitcoin Could Aid in Solving the $35 Trillion US National Debt Problem

David Bailey, CEO of Bitcoin Magazine and a cryptocurrency aide of the Trump campaign, revealed that the former president asked if Bitcoin could be leveraged to solve the U.S. national…

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Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès Assures No Imminent Bitcoin Sale, “Everything Is Fine”

In a social media post, Mark Karpelès, the former CEO of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox, provided a status update on the recent situation. He assured followers that “everything…

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