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Israel’s crypto market set for major overhaul with stricter regulations

The Capital Market Authority’s new rules will impose higher capital requirements, tighter custody controls and restrictions on how crypto service providers manage customer assets.

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Sam Bankman-Fried asks judge for suits to wear at trial

Bankman-Fried also asked to be given four dress shirts, three ties, one belt, four pairs of socks, two pairs of shoes and "appropriate undergarments."

 Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of crypto currency exchange FTX, is escorted out of the Magistrate Court building in Nassau, Bahamas December 21, 2022.

Bankman-Fried loses bid to get out of jail, appeals court will hear case

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Aug. 11 revoked Bankman-Fried's $250 million bail after finding that the former billionaire likely tampered with witnesses at least twice.

 Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, leaves following a hearing at Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. January 3, 2023.

Sam Bankman-Fried must be jailed, is intimidating witnesses, prosecutors say

"What the defendant may not do... is seek to corruptly influence witnesses and interfere with a fair trial through attempted public harassment and shaming," prosecutors said.

 Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of crypto currency exchange FTX, is escorted out of the Magistrate Court building in Nassau, Bahamas December 21, 2022.

US wants FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried jailed pending trial

The purpose of Wednesday's hearing was in part to consider what Kaplan called "the adequacy and continuation of the current bail conditions."

 Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, leaves following a hearing at Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. January 3, 2023.

'Verified human': Worldcoin users queue up for iris scans

Worldcoin's data-collection is a "potential privacy nightmare," said the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a US privacy campaigner.

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Prosecutors accuse FTX's Bankman-Fried of witness tampering

The prosecutors argued that Bankman-Fried was trying to malign Ellison's credibility, and that such conduct could chill witnesses from testifying and taint the jury pool.

 Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of crypto currency exchange FTX, is escorted out of the Magistrate Court building in Nassau, Bahamas December 21, 2022.

Israel seized Binance crypto accounts to 'thwart' Islamic State - report

The owner of the two Islamic State-linked Binance accounts seized by Israel was a 28-year-old Palestinian called Osama Abuobayda.

 A representation of the cryptocurrency is seen in front of Binance logo in this illustration taken, March 4, 2022.

Dogecoin jumps as Musk's Twitter flips logo to Shiba Inu dog

Elon Musk asked a US judge on Friday to throw out a $258 billion racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk smiles at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles, California, US, June 13, 2019.

FTX's Bankman-Fried charged with $40 million bribe to Chinese officials

The indictment said Bankman-Fried ordered the $40 million cryptocurrency payment to a private wallet from Alameda's main trading account, to persuade Chinese authorities to unfreezeAlameda accounts

 Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, leaves following a hearing at Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. January 3, 2023.

People who posted Sam Bankman-Fried's bail should be named, US judge rules

Bankman-Fried has been confined at his parents' home in California, after pleading not guilty to fraud for allegedly looting billions of FTX customer dollars.

 Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of crypto currency exchange FTX, is escorted out of the Magistrate Court building in Nassau, Bahamas December 21, 2022.