El Salvador President Nayib Bukele took a victory lap on Monday after the Bank of England’s British pound rapidly depreciated against the dollar. The institution has since resumed quantitative easing. Its action marks a clear pivot that many in the Bitcoin community predicted central banks would be forced into months in advance. Bukele’s Callout Bukele tagged the Bank of England with a triumphant “Told you,” over Twitter, scoring over 14,000 like and 2000 retweets from his followers. His brief comment…
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Tether Agrees to Provide Documents Proving USDT Asset Backing
Tether – the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, USDT – is once again being pressured to demonstrate the quality of its reserves. On Tuesday, the company was ordered by a U.S. court in New York to provide detailed financial documents for evaluating claims around the asset’s backing. An ‘Extraordinary’ Request The order is part of an ongoing 2019 lawsuit claiming that Bitfinex and Tether conspired to inflate Bitcoin’s price by pumping the market with unbacked Tether tokens. At the…
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The ICOBox Dalliance with Unregistered Securities Sales Earns it a $16M Fine
A court in the US has ruled in favour of the SEC in a case it had filed against ICOBox and its founder cum CEO Nikolay Evdokimov. Reports indicate that The District Court of the Central District of California granted the U.S. SEC’s motion for default judgement against the defendants. The case first came before the court in September of last year. In its filing, the SEC accused ICOBox of hosting an unregistered securities sale. Further, it alleged that the…
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