BITS OF BLOCKS
BLOCKCHAIN, LAW AND REGULATION
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina
Feds bring the heat as ex-Celsius CEO arrested
Former Celsius CEO, Alex Mashinsky, was arrested on 13 July, following charges laid by the US Department of Justice including securities,...
SBF faces new charges
FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried (commonly known as SBF), faces new charges, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud and operating an...
Coinbase Insider Trader Pleads Guilty
Earlier this week, Nikhil Wahi, the brother of a former Coinbase product manager, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to...
Alexander Vinnik reportedly being extradited to US
Alexander Vinnik - a Russian national accused of running BTC-e, a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange implicated in the MtGox...
NFTs stolen in Phishing Attack on Uniswap v3
A group of hackers has pulled off a major phishing scam on a Uniswap v3 liquidity pool, making off with NFTs worth roughly US$3.56m in...
MetaMask making scam recovery simpler
Victims of scam, fraud and phishing attacks have been offered a helping hand by popular Ethereum wallet provider, MetaMask. The browser...
Former BitMEX CEO sentenced to house arrest
Co-founder and former CEO of BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, has been sentenced to house arrest for six months along with a two year probation...
US DoJ charges accomplices to Ethereum developer's North Korea sanctions scheme
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has brought charges against two European citizens alleging a conspiracy to violate US sanctions...