Search Results for: initial coin offerings
Bitcoin sets fresh record above $3,500; ether trades higher
August 9th, 2017
Bitcoin traded higher on Tuesday, carving out a fresh record above $3,500 and reaching a market value approaching $60 billion at its best levels. A single bitcoin BTCUSD, -1.78% most recently was trading at $3,477.93, up 0.5%, touching an ...
Bitcoin move over – there’s a new kid on the blockchain
May 30th, 2017
The digital currency bitcoin has broken new records – surging by more than 245 per cent since the start of the year. In just five months, the price of one bitcoin rose from $1,331 to its all-time-high of $3,894 ...
Can Bitcoin Change Wi-Fi For the Better?
July 29th, 2015
It’s certainly not unusual in the bitcoin and blockchain industry to see several companies coalesce around a new use case for the technology. However, what may be novel about the sudden focus on Wi-Fi is the size and ubiquity ...
SEC Sanctions Operator of Bitcoin-Related Stock Exchange for Registration Violations
December 9th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission today sanctioned a computer programmer for operating two online venues that traded securities using virtual currencies Bitcoin or Litecoin without registering the venues as broker-dealers or stock exchanges. The programmer, Ethan Burnside, also was ...
Illegal Bitcoin IPO Actually Worked Out Pretty Well for Investors
June 4th, 2014
Today the Securities and Exchange Commission shut down a bitcoin investing scam that, as bitcoin investing scams go, is disappointingly un-scammy. A very bitcoiny guy named Erik Voorhees1 started some very bitcoiny companies called SatoshiDICE and FeedZeBirds,2 and he ...
ICO incubator and founder charged for unregistered offering and unregistered broker activity
September 20th, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued ICOBox and its founder Nikolay Evdokimov for conducting an illegal $14 million securities offering of ICOBox’s digital tokens and for acting as unregistered brokers for other digital asset offerings. According to the ...
The European Securities and Markets Authority released advice on Crypto assets
January 9th, 2019
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) today publishes its Advice (Advice) to the European Union (EU) Institutions – Commission, Council and Parliament – on initial coin offerings and crypto-assets. The Advice clarifies the existing EU rules applicable to ...
Top Cryptocurrency stories in 2018
December 27th, 2018
Following an intense 2017 with cryptocurrency market spikes, year 2018 is the year with great majority of digital assets plunged well over 80 percent in value since their all-time highs. Year 2018 is also filled with many headlines about the ...
Founder of digital “token” trading platform settled charges
November 9th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled charges against Zachary Coburn, the founder of EtherDelta, a digital “token” trading platform. This is the SEC’s first enforcement action based on findings that such a platform operated as an unregistered ...
The formation of the Digital Currency Trade Association announced
November 5th, 2018
The Digital Currency Trade Association (DCTA) has launched a membership trade association focused on the new digital asset economy. The DCTA is organized as a “business association” under IRS tax law 501(c)(6) and the goal is to organize and ...
