Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Policy

IRS Will Seize Crypto Assets on Failure to Pay US Taxes: Official

Crypto is treated by the IRS as property for U.S. tax purposes and can be seized in the same way, an official said.

IRS

Markets

Former BitMEX Executives to Face Trial in March 2022

Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed face up to five years in prison per charge if convicted.

Department of Justice

Markets

South Korea’s Central Bank Seeks Authority to Monitor Crypto Transactions: Report

The Bank of Korea hopes to start as early as September, an official said.

Bank of Korea building, Seoul

Finance

tZERO Signs 3 Firms Looking to Tokenize Securities

The Overstock-owned company is onboarding OmniValley, Trellis and Wunderfund, a trio of investment platforms.

tZERO

Tech

ConsenSys Tools Infura, Truffle Now Support Ethereum Scaling Project Polygon

The two products should make life easier for developers on Polygon.

The Polygon team

Markets

Ether Touches $500B Market Cap for First Time, Overtaking JPMorgan and Visa

The milestone came as ether hit an all-time high of over $4,370.

price chart trader

Policy

Trial Gets Under Way for Well-Known Crypto Executive in China

Prominent trader Zhao Dong is charged with "assisting internet criminal activities " and faces three years in prison.

Hangzhou, China

Finance

Thiel, Novogratz Back $10B Funding for Block.one’s New Crypto Exchange Subsidiary

The new arm, Bullish Global, will be focused on the launch of a cryptocurrency exchange later this year.

Brenden Blumer, co-founder of Block.one

Finance

Brooker Group to Invest Almost $50M in DeFi, Dapp Startups

The publicly listed company said it already holds bitcoin.

Bangkok, Thailand

Markets

Merriam-Webster to Auction an NFT of Its New Definition of an NFT

The auction will take place on NFT marketplace OpenSea with bidding commencing May 11.

Merriam-Webster's NFT definition