Month: November 2022

Where Is The Ethereum Price Headed Next After Clearing This Resistance

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The Ethereum price has finally been able to break above the $1,233 resistance mark. Over the last 24 hours, the coin has registered substantial gains. With the price moving above the $1,233 resistance level, Ethereum price has pictured a positive short-term bullish thesis on its one-day chart. Technical outlook also agreed with the same and depicted a rise in demand for the king altcoin. Buyers will need to stick around for longer than the next couple of trading sessions for ETH to reach above the $1,300 price mark. The price…

Senate Banking Committee chair calls for coordination with Treasury on crypto

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Sherrod Brown, chair of the United States Senate Banking Committee, has called on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to work with financial regulators and lawmakers on comprehensive crypto legislation “in the wake of FTX’s implosion.” In a Nov. 30 letter to Yellen, Brown requested the Treasury Secretary coordinate with regulators to address crypto based on recommendations from the Financial Stability Oversight Committee, or FSOC. The committee chair cited crypto exchange FTX’s “alarming fraud”, liquidity crunch, and bankruptcy as an example of financial risk that should not “spillover into traditional financial markets…

EU’s MiCA Law May Have an FTX-Shaped Loophole

MiCA broadly allows the practice, but, compared to other EU financial service laws, includes stronger powers for supervisors to stop solicitation being abused – including an ad ban for unauthorized products. However, the detailed ground rules need to be set by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), which has to issue guidelines, and its officials already see this topic as a source of concern. Source

ECB Blog Post Insists This Is ‘Bitcoin’s Last Stand,’ Officials Claim BTC Is Headed Toward ‘Irrelevance’ – Bitcoin News

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On Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, a blog post published by the European Central Bank (ECB) discusses bitcoin and the authors Ulrich Bindseil and Jürgen Schaaf seem to believe its “bitcoin’s last stand.” The ECB authors further say that while bitcoin’s price has consolidated and stabilized, the central bank officials remarked that “it is an artificially induced last gasp before the road to irrelevance.” Members of Europe’s Central Bank Believe They Predicted Bitcoin Would Be Heading Toward ‘Irrelevance’ Before FTX Went Bust Two members of Europe’s central bank, Ulrich Bindseil, the…

Telegram founder wants to build new decentralized tools to combat power abuse

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Telegram is set to build a set of decentralized tools, including noncustodial wallets and decentralized exchanges, according to founder Pavel Durov via his Telegram channel on Nov. 30. The initiative is a response to the recent FTX collapse, said Durov, as the industry ended up being concentrated in the “hands of a few to abuse their power. As a result, a lot of people lost their money when FTX, one of the largest exchanges, went bankrupt.” This announcement comes weeks after the launch of Fragment, a decentralized auction platform for unique…

What a Securities Lawyer Would Ask FTX’s Bankman-Fried

As a securities litigator for over 30 years, I have cross-examined a host of conmen and fraudsters. Most of my cases have been concentrated in the financial services field where I represented Wall Street, securities brokerage firms, commercial banks and national stock and derivatives exchanges – in other words, traditional finance. Source

After Months at Arm’s Length, Sen. Brown Opens Door for Crypto Legislation

“Single regulatory agencies currently generally do not have a comprehensive view of crypto asset entities’ activities,” Brown argued in his letter, which highlighted the findings of a report from the Financial Stability Oversight Council led by Yellen, including its recommendation for legislation that would “create authorities for regulators to have visibility into, and otherwise supervise, the activities of the affiliates and subsidiaries of crypto-asset entities.” Source

SEC Could Use BlockFi as Object Lesson for Clear Crypto Regulation, Says Ex-SEC Official

“The SEC is going to be a lot more concerned not with the money from the settlement, but from what the BlockFi bankruptcy represents in terms of harm to investors, systematic risks, contagion, and what it shows about the risks to crypto world in general,” Fischer said. “That’s going to be a little bit more to the front of the mind of the SEC than the $30 million that they’re owed.” Source