CFTC brings charges against crypto exchange Gemini for making false statements LeapRate

June 03, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFTC brings charges against crypto exchange Gemini for making false statements

Acting Director of Enforcement Gretchen Lowe Making false or misleading statements to the CFTC in connection with a futures product certification undermines the CFTC’s work to ensure the financial integrity of all transactions subject to the CEA, protect market participants, deter and prevent price manipulation, and promote responsible innovation and fair competition. This enforcement action…

November 04, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

The Winklevoss brothers are suing for $32 million in stolen Bitcoin

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are one of the best known names in the Bitcoin market, or at least, in the BTC ETF one. The Winklevoss brothers are now suing Charlie Shrem, the infamous Bitcoin tycoon who was convicted for "for aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money-transmitting business related to the Silk Road marketplace",…

May 05, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

New York DFS authorizes Gemini Trust Company to offer Ether trading

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announces that the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has granted authorization Gemini Trust Company, LLC to offer the trading of Ether, an emerging cryptocurrency, on its virtual currency exchange based in New York City. As a limited purpose trust company chartered under New York State Banking Law,…

March 02, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Bitcoin IPO on the cards? Competition between the Winkelvoss twins and Barry Silbert hots up

BIT shares were being cited as of Sunday, March 1 under the temporary ticker symbol BTCV on OTC Markets’ pink sheets site, which includes over-the-counter offerings from companies with limited information disclosure. FINRA has granted a request for a permanent ticker symbol which will be effective shortly

April 18, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Are the ‘Winklevii’ becoming the Bitcoin Hunt Brothers?

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have poured their Facebook fortune into Bitcoins. Reports have surfaced that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, better known as the Winklevoss Twins or simply as the 'Winklevii' (thanks to Homer Simpson) have come to own a whopping 1% of all the Bitcoins on the market, worth in the neighborhood of $15 million.…

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