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  Hollywood’s got a crypto critic. Should we pay attention?

  Vox - Emily Stewart

  It’s probably wise to avoid celebrity advice on money, but The O.C.’s Ben McKenzie has a point. Ben McKenzie thinks you should not listen to famous people when it comes to crypto. Except for him. When other celebrities like Tom Brady and Matt Damon were out there pushing regular investors to ride the …

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  Now might be a good time to consider quitting crypto

  Vox - Whizy Kim

  What the SEC’s lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase mean for the future of cryptocurrencies — and for you. For a long time, the crypto industry has been a Wild West with few regulations and laws governing it — a fact that many crypto enthusiasts saw as a feature, not a bug. Unlike registered …

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  Can crypto survive in Biden’s America?

  Vox - Sara Morrison

  The SEC has come for Coinbase. The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Coinbase on Tuesday, accusing the crypto giant of operating as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency, and of offering and selling securities without registering. The lawsuit came just a day after the …

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  The 2023 Forbes billionaire ranking: Crypto down, sports up

  Vox - Whizy Kim

  What the list says about uber-wealth right now. It would be an understatement to say 2022 was a turbulent year for the world’s richest people, and Forbes’s newly unveiled ranking of the world’s billionaires in 2023 shows that they paid a hefty price for scandal. Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, …

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  The world’s largest crypto exchange is in trouble with the US government

  Vox - Li Zhou

  Binance is the latest crypto exchange to get into hot water with regulators. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is dealing with some major uncertainty after getting hit with a lawsuit from the US’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC. It’s the latest example of the …

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  A new indictment shows how Sam Bankman-Fried’s political influence worked

  Vox - Andrew Prokop

  One FTX executive donated to “woke shit for transactional purposes.” Another gave to Republicans. Disgraced cryptocurrency executive Sam Bankman-Fried secretly spread his political influence by “steering tens of millions of dollars of illegal campaign contributions to both Democrats and …