Reginald Fowler, the former principal for Crypto Capital Corp who previously plead guilty to multiple felony charges has been spending his time on bail gambling hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Fowler, who was also part-owner of NFL team the Minnesota Vikings, has pleaded guilty to a raft of charges, including bank fraud, wire fraud, and operating an unlicensed money transmitter.

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Arbitrum recently released its ARB token and announced its intention to begin empowering a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) with authority over the direction of the protocol.

Arbitrum claims that “ARB token holders have the ability to directly propose, vote on and effectuate on-chain AIPs.” However this initial proposal, despite being written in the future tense, was not really a proposal as the company had already begun acting on it.

Despite the community voting against several ‘proposals’ roughly two to one, the proposals themselves were already being implemtented, rendering their votes meaningless.

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In July, the US federal reserve will finally release FedNow, its very own payment system that it says might just outperform virtually all digital assets, including stablecoins and the planned digital dollar.

FedNow says it will make USD settlements between financial institutions faster and cheaper while staying up and running 24/7. It also claims superior scaling, intraday finality, and vastly improved traditional interbank settlement systems like FedWire or ACH systems.

Put simply, FedNow might completely replace the need for a US central bank digital currency. You can find out exactly how FedNow plans to outdo the digital dollar along with almost every other digital asset by listening to the article above.

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The multi-year legal battle led by the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding Ripple’s alleged unregistered securities offering could end in summary judgment by April. The defendants are Ripple, Chris Larsen, and Brad Garlinghouse.

Ripple raised $1.3 billion through its XRP token sale. The SEC alleges various illegalities of its offerings in its civil lawsuit. The presiding US District Court Southern District of New York could rule in summary judgment within a few weeks.

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Zhu Su, Kyle Davies, Mark Lamb, and Leslie Lamb’s new cryptocurrency exchange OPNX, is set to open in April.

The exchange, which was originally intended to simply be a trading platform for asset claims on bankrupt exchanges, hedge funds, and other broken companies, has shifted to being a spot, futures, margin, and bankruptcy claims trading platform.

OPNX promises transparency, fantastic UX, and fair pricing on order books. The reality is that OPNX is opaque and run by shady people with shady pasts.

Find out how the new exchange is downplaying the actions of Zhu Su and Kyle Davies by listening to the article above.

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Local Grenadian media reported that Tron founder Justin Sun lost his ambassador status and title ‘His Excellency’ during the summer of 2022, despite keeping up the pretence on social media in the months following.

Sun’s @HEJustinSun Twitter handle continued posting through October. As previously reported by Protos, the last documented video of ambassador Sun representing Grenada at the World Trade Organization is an unlisted YouTube video from his June trip to Geneva.

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An anonymous ‘entity’ that has been opening connections to Bitcoin nodes and listening to transaction announcements is likely a corporation performing some kind of blockchain analysis, according to pseudonymous Bitcoin app developer 0xB10C.

In a blog post published on Tuesday, 0xB10C detailed how the unknown individual or group appears to be trying to collect IP addresses of Bitcoin users and link them to their BTC addresses.

Listen to the article to find out how the unkown entity is finding these IP addresses and for what ends.

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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to plead not guilty on Thursday to a new set of charges by the US government, which allege that the curly-haired former billionaire bribed Chinese officials to unfreeze locked funds belonging to Alameda Research, SBF's now-defunct crypto trading firm, and conspired to violate campaign finance laws.

Listen to the article to find out how Sam Bankman-Fried gave $40 million to Chinese officials in order to unfreeze Alameda trading accounts containing $1 billion in cryptocurrency.

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The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, which consists of 23 senators, including cryptocurrency advocates like Cynthia Lummis and haters like Sherrod Brown, all convened to discuss the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).

Unfortunately, instead of discussing how best to allay banking fears and concerns, hedging systemic risk, and setting up new rules and regulations, the senators used their time to yell at regulators to get a good soundbite for the next time they run for office.

Listen to how what could have been a useful educational experience turn into a stereotypical display of the circus that is American politics.

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Twitter influencer Shinobi has recommended adding zero-knowledge proofs for Bitcoin in an op-ed for Bitcoin Magazine.

They allow one party to prove that a statement is true without revealing the contents of the statement. It proves data is valid with zero knowledge of the data itself. For example, a ring signature is a basic ZKP.

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