Media coverage of China’s efforts to supplant the US dollar’s reserve currency status has reached a feverish pitch. Diplomatic announcements, ceremonial oil contracts, and narrowly selected data suggest that foreigners are increasing their acceptance of non-USD trade with China. 

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Crypto exchange Coinbase’s top executives, including chief exec Brian Armstrong and board member Marc Andreessen, participated in insider trading to avoid $1 billion in losses in the days after going public two years ago, Coinbase investors claimed in a lawsuit made public on Monday.

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Dark web users can get their hands on fully verified crypto accounts for as little as $20, according to recent research from online data security provider Privacy Affairs.

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Michael Saylor looks to be in a very tight spot as the $2.1 billion outstanding debt his company used to buy bitcoin is coming back to haunt him.

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Crypto-friendly Cross River Bank has recently landed in the crosshairs of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation over alleged violations of fair-lending laws, documents revealed on Friday.

The bank’s clients include various digital asset companies. USDC issuer Circle recently switched from Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse, over to the New Jersey-based bank for USDC issuance and redemption services. However, the bank's considerable rise has piqued the interest of skeptics.

In light of Cross River’s negative FDIC enforcement action, listen to the article for a review of the causes of the company’s parabolic growth -- which include ties to offshore crypto companies with traditional difficulty maintaining fiat banking relationships.

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Tron chief Justin Sun, accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of using a network of entities under his control to manipulate the price of crypto tokens he's connected to, has had to explain a large transfer of TrueUSD to Binance that appeared to be intended to take advantage of a Binance promotion of the SUI token.

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Crypto exchange Binance claims someone is feeding false information to OpenAI's ChatGPT in order to discredit the firm’s standing with US lawmakers, Forbes reported on Monday.

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After last year’s global energy crisis and high inflation, bitcoin has made a spectacular rally of 67% in 2023 at press time, bouncing back alongside stock markets. Now, traders and investors are awaiting the US Federal Reserve’s meeting on Wednesday, which will provide crucial clarity on the future of interest rates.

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Investment banking firm JP Morgan Chase will take over all of the deposits — insured and uninsured — and almost all assets of collapsed First Republic Bank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation confirmed in a statement on Monday.

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In his most straightforward warning to date, Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler published a video explaining how crypto exchanges have miscategorized most crypto assets as non-securities.

In addition to failing to register with the SEC, exchanges have failed to disclose risks, segregate customer assets, surveil market misconduct, nor file information necessary for reasonable investment decisions.

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