Binance Australia's derivatives license has been revoked by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as part of an ongoing "targeted review" of Binance's businesses in the country, according to a press release issued on Thursday.

The command was given in response to Binance's own request to cancel the license, following a formal hearing conducted by ASIC to consider whether to revoke it.

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TikTok users have viewed videos using crypto hashtags over 1.6 billion times, but a new study found that more than one-third of those videos contain misleading information.

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The quartet of failed crypto entrepreneurs — Zhu Su, Kyle Davies, Mark Lamb, and Leslie Lamb — are already striking out on their latest venture Open Exchange (OPNX), a cryptocurrency and bankruptcy claims exchange that launched a mere two days ago. So, what’s gone wrong in this incredibly short period of time? Everything that could.

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New York Department of Financial Services superintendent Adrienne Harris has described the idea that last month's Signature Bank takeover was motivated by crypto as "ludicrous," reports Coindesk.

Listen to this article to discover how crypto Twitter was awash theories that the bank's shutdown was related to a crackdown on banks providing services to crypto firms.

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In an unwaveringly cringeworthy interview with Forbes, Reddit co-founder Alex Ohanian made the claim that due to the traumatic suffering his family endured during the Armenian Genocide, he’s decided to invest millions of dollars into NFTs.

“Even if all this experiment produces is a mechanism that enough people believe in to be able to take some notion of ownership or value… that feels like a win,” he said, vaguely. But let’s be real, Alex, you’re buying NFTs because you like them and want to make money, not to create any genocide-related safety mechanisms.

Listen to the article to find out why the Reddit co-founders NFT blitz has little to nothing to do with Armenian diaspora.

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It’s official: the last quarter for which Tether is required to legally submit to attestations of its reserves, as dictated by the Attorney General of New York, has passed. That means, at least according to the law, the company no longer has to submit any attestations, quarterly or otherwise.

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Bob Lee, founder of cryptocurrency MobileCoin and payments service Cash App, and former chief technology officer of Square has died after being stabbed in San Francisco on Tuesday.

At around 2:35 am local time, police responded to reports of an incident near the city’s Rincon Hill neighborhood.

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Software engineer Tobi Ojuolape has published a method for making very large payments using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network that recommends Lightning nodes upgrade to support atomic multipath payments (AMPs). 

Ojuolape’s proposal is unexpected because the Lightning Network primarily handles small payments. Historically, research into large, Lightning payments has been neglected.

Listen to this article to find out what makes Bitcoin atomicity work and the benefits it can bring to the Bitcoin lightning network.

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Six virtual currency accounts allegedly used to launder funds for a number of crypto investment scams have been seized by the US Justice Department (DoJ) along with an estimated $112 million in virtual currency.

As detailed in warrants greenlit by judges in Arizona, California, and Idaho, the scammers persuaded victims to invest in fraudulent crypto trading platforms before funneling the funds to their own wallets.

Authorities investigating the case have pledged to return as much of the funds as possible to the victims.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is responsible for overseeing, regulating, and enforcing compliance on US securities offerings, and following its rules can be tough. Indeed, many crypto proponents would rather disregard — or abolish — the SEC altogether.

Here we’ll contextualize their attempts to fight the world’s most powerful securities regulator.

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