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April 10, 2024
This Week in Web3: Usability, Utility and Oversight 

The next iteration of the internet, Web3, has been around for a while now.  Meta’s Reality Labs division — the arm of the tech giant that focuses on metaverse, mixed...


April 08, 2024
Ripple CEO: Crypto Market Will Exceed $5 Trillion by Year’s...

Will this be the year that cryptocurrency’s market capitalization surpasses the $5 trillion mark? Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse seems to think so. Speaking to CNBC Sunday (April 7), Garlinghouse said he expects the value of...


March 31, 2024
Detained Binance Execs Sue Nigeria for Rights Violations

Two Binance executives have sued the Nigerian government following their detention by the African nation. The cryptocurrency execs filed suit last week against Nigeria’s national security adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and country’s Economic Financial...


March 27, 2024
Crypto Scamming Intensifies as Digital Asset Market Rallies

Most crimes, at the end of the day, are crimes of opportunity. After all, bad actors and scammers just need to get lucky once. And with the resurgence of the...


March 27, 2024
FTX Creditors: Bankruptcy Estate Could Have Revived ‘Thriving’ Business

Earlier this year, bankrupt cryptocurrency firm FTX called off plans to resurrect its exchange. And that was a missed opportunity, some of the company’s creditors told The Wall Street Journal in a report published...


March 21, 2024
FTX CEO Slams Bankman-Fried’s ‘Nonexistent’ Remorse

FTX’s CEO says Sam Bankman-Fried’s deception didn’t stop with his fraud conviction.  In a victim impact statement filed Wednesday (March 20) ahead of Bankman-Fried’s sentencing next week, FTX chief executive...


March 14, 2024
Would You Sell Your House for Bitcoin? People Do

It is 2024, and the $2.9 trillion cryptocurrency sector doesn’t appear to be going anywhere. That’s despite a 2022 and 2023 that saw the total market capitalization shrink down over half from earlier...


March 05, 2024
HealthLock and Mastercard Team to Prevent Medical Fraud

Medical fraud and overbilling prevention solution HealthLock has expanded its year-old partnership with Mastercard. Beginning April 1, the HealthLock platform will be available to commercial, small business and consumer Mastercard cardholders in the...


February 12, 2024
New York AG Triples Alleged Crypto Fraud to $3B

New York Attorney General Letitia James has escalated her lawsuit against Digital Currency Group (DCG) and several other defendants. The lawsuit, initially filed in October, has now been expanded to...