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The finance commission of El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved a $150 million trust fund to support the country’s plan to make bitcoin legal tender.

Tether argues that handing over the requested information could compromise its competitive edge.

Actor Steven Seagal owes the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unpaid fines stemming from a settlement related to the promotion of an initial coin offering -- and a U.S. judge has empowered the agency to seek collection.

Senator Pat Toomey is looking for input on crypto regulation.

Pelosi's deadline may mean that the infrastructure bill faces another truncated procedure before the House, in bad news for the crypto community.

The bulk of the SEC's case, however, continues.

Kryptoin’s ETH ETF would function much like its proposed bitcoin ETF, which the firm initially filed in 2019.

The Justice Department said Wednesday that a former fintech CEO has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to COVID-19 pandemic loan fraud and crypto investment fraud.

The bill would legalize digital assets and allow businesses in Uruguay to accept crypto for payments.

A trio of U.S. senators is proposing a legislative exclusion for crypto companies, including miners and software developers, from a tax reporting provision in a long-in-the-making bipartisan infrastructure bill. The Wyden-Lummis-Toomey amendment, made public Wednesday, comes days after it first emerged that the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill included language aimed at tightening reporting requirements for “brokers” […]

Riccardo Spagni, a former maintainer for the Monero privacy coin project and a founder of the emoji username project Yat, is being held by U.S. authorities and faces extradition to South Africa in connection with allegations of fraud.

Toomey agreed with the cryptocurrency lobby's appraisal of the draft language as "unworkable."

A senior Democratic Senator took to Twitter on Sunday to criticize draft language related to crypto tax reporting requirements in a still-in-the-making infrastructure package.

A California-based man pleaded guilty on Friday for his participation in a "coordinated cryptocurrency and securities fraud scheme."

BlockFi now faces scrutiny from securities regulators in five states, but federal regulators remain on the sidelines.