Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.

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Finance

South Korean Prosecutors Seeking 8-Year Sentence for Ex-Bithumb Chairman

Lee Jung-hoon, who led the company that operated the exchange, is charged with committing $70 million in fraud.

Bithumb is one of South Korea's largest crypto exchanges (Shutterstock)

Finance

Crypto Exchange FTX to Compensate API Phishing Victims With as Much as $6M

Sam Bankman-Fried has said this is the last time FTX will compensate users for a phishing attack.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Turkish Authorities Seize Crypto Worth $40M in Illegal Gambling Sting

Investigators are probing a $135 million transaction that links back to organized crime groups in the country's capital city Ankara.

Ankara, Turkey (Ekrem Osmanoglu/Unsplash)

Finance

Binance Wins Registration as Crypto Asset Service Provider in Cyprus

The crypto exchange can now offer more types of digital-asset services.

Binance has registered an entity with regulators in Cyprus. (Sasha Cures/Unsplash)

Finance

El cofundador de Terra, Do Kwon, sigue afirmando que no está prófugo

El desarrollador coreano también continuó desestimando las afirmaciones que dicen que fueron congelados US$67 millones en los exchanges de criptomonedas OKX y KuCoin.

Do Kwon. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon Still Says He's Not on the Run

The South Korean developer also continued to dismiss claims that $67 million was frozen on crypto exchanges OKX and KuCoin.

(Terra)

Finance

Meta Platforms Follows Blockchain Firms in Joining Cryptographic Privacy Group MPC Alliance

The Facebook parent joins the likes of Bolt Labs, Ciphermode Labs and Partisia Blockchain in becoming a member of the group.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms has joined an industry privacy group that includes many blockchain companies. (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)

Finance

Lazarus, un grupo de hackers norcoreano, apunta contra las empresas de criptomoneda japonesas

El grupo Lazarus ha estado atacando a empresas japonesas con links de phishing a través de emails y redes sociales.

Flags fly in Pyongyang, North Korea (Micha Brandli/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin tardó más de una hora en minar un bloque y retrasó miles de transacciones

Un intervalo de 85 minutos dejó más de 13.000 transacciones pendientes el lunes.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

Finance

Arbitrum Founder Dismisses Launch of First Mainnet zkEVM

Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfeder has said that a zkEVM is "not 12 days away from mainnet."

The co-founders of Offchain Labs, the firm behind Arbitrum. (Offchain Labs)