Law Decoded: Green lights of the SEC, black flags of Binance, Nov. 13–20
Libel laws and new faces at the U.S. securities regulator lead the week's news. Editor's noAmid a political news cycle that has been stuck in a nauseating loop, covering crypto is often refreshing. Partisan forces have yet to dig out the trenches. A lot of the current task is just getting working definitions in play. Meanwhile, the technology advances at a mind-boggling rate, and there are still enough outrageous scams, absurd tomfoolery and indeed general skulduggery to keep everything from getting dull.Speaking of skulduggery, I will begin this week with a comment on a challenge to....
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Cryptocurrencies such as BNB and FTT have been seeing some downside in the last 24 hours. This follows an eventful weekend that has culminated in what has been a clear intention of crypto exchange Binance to begin dumping its FTT holdings. As a result, there is expected to be a reaction from both FTT and BNB when the exchange completes the dumping of its billion-dollar holdings in FTT. Binance Pulls Out Of FTT Social media was lit afire when Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) said that the crypto exchange had decided to liquidate its FTT position. Now, Binance had been an incubator for the....
Accompanying the presidential transition are some major questions about the role of social media in society and politics. Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law.Editor’s noteArmed National Guardsmen are building up concentric perimeters of black barricades around the U.S. Capitol and its whole neighborhood of federal buildings in preparation for the Biden inauguration and protests against it on Wednesday. Which inspires some déjà vu, whether to last week or last summer. As much as history is said to repeat....
Cryptocurrency and BTC mining have been one of challenging issues to handle in regulations by different jurisdictions. Many have enacted various laws to control some of the environmental aftermaths of the process. Some government authorities have even banned some primary crypto mining within their province. China remains one of the notable countries that cracked down […]