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Tornado Cash Developers Storm, Pertsev Raise Over $350K for Legal Defense With Support From Snowden

Tornado Cash developers Alexey Pertsev, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov face allegations of money laundering.

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Semenov (Roman Semenov)

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'Lord, You Told Me to Do This': Pastor Defends Taking $1.3M From Failed Crypto

Eli Regalado said God told him to start the INDXcoin project and he's waiting on further guidance after Colorado securities officials accused him of running a crypto scam.

This is not a picture of Pastor Eli Regalado (Michelangelo/Wikimedia Commons)

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Abra to Open Withdrawals After Settling with Texas Regulators

More than 12,000 investors could be able to withdraw roughly $13 million worth of crypto, according to a new settlement between Abra and state regulators.

Abra CEO Bill Barhydt speaks during SALT 2022

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SEC Shut Off Extra Security on X For About 6 Months, Letting Hacker Breeze In

The U.S. regulator confirmed it didn't take its own security advice through much of 2023, leaving it open for a costly social-media hack that's still under investigation.

Gary Gensler's SEC must now decide what to do about multiple applications for BTC and ETH ETFs (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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FTX Affiliate Alameda Research Drops Grayscale Lawsuit

FTX liquidators are scrapping a costly legal battle to secure money for FTX creditors, following GBTC's conversion into a spot bitcoin ETF.

The now-former FTX Arena (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk archives)

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U.S., U.K., Australia Sanction Hamas-Affiliated Crypto Transaction Facilitators

The U.S. designated two companies that helped move crypto for Hamas, according to a Treasury Department press release.

The U.S. is weighing crypto tax rules, and a hearing today will hear from industry representatives worried about the government going too far. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk.)

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Crypto Backers B. Riley and Nomura Entangled in SEC Probe: Bloomberg

A statement from B. Riley said it was unaware of any such investigation from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

SEC logo (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Why Indonesia’s Upcoming Elections Could Make or Break the Country’s Vibrant Crypto Sector

Not all leading candidates have been vocal about crypto – but scattered remarks offer clues about where the industry might be headed under their leadership.

Indonesia flag (Bisma Mahendra/Unsplash)

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The SEC Goes Back to Court

A week after approving many spot bitcoin ETFs, the SEC faced Coinbase and Binance in court.

SEC logo (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Crypto Industry Cautiously Welcomes Agreement on New EU AML Rules

NFTs, DeFi and outlawing privacy tools might be out, but for crypto firms, requirements for customer checks might be more stringent than for banks, policy watchers told CoinDesk.

European Parliament (Frederic Köberl/ Unsplash)