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Just got back from a trip. It rained all night and the air’s slightly chilly today. Had breakfast, now lounging on the couch with nothing to do—still catching the faint scent of my shampoo in the air. Cozy little moments like this feel so peaceful.
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The US Department of Justice announced tax evasion charges against Ver on April 30, 2024, and the entrepreneur was subsequently arrested in Spain, where he was imprisoned for several weeks.
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Meanwhile, Feb. 19 and 20 saw the SEC acknowledge half a dozen exchange filings related to cryptocurrency ETFs in two days, including staking, options, in-kind redemptions and new types of altcoin funds.
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Onchain investigator ZachXBT has identified North Korean state-sponsored hacking group Lazarus as the prime suspect in the Bybit hack. The investigator identified a common address used by the Bybit hacker in previous attacks on Phemex and BingX, both attributed to Lazarus.
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The Internal Revenue Service reported in April that it received over 163.1 million individual income tax returns in the 2023 financial year.
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Assuming that DOGE’s headline $55 billion figure is accurate and there are roughly the same number of individual taxpayers, it would mean each would get less than $67.50 if the savings were passed on today.
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It would also mean using 20% of the savings toward the national debt — which would currently be $11 billion — would help wipe off just 1.3% of the $839.5 billion deficit the US government has run up this fiscal year, which started in October.
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In the same speech at the summit, Trump said his crypto-related executive order signed last month helped “to end Joe Biden’s war on Bitcoin and crypto.”
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The government of Nigeria has filed an $81.5 billion lawsuit against Binance, the world’s largest centralized exchange by trading volume, for $2 billion in back taxes and $79 billion in economic damages for allegedly crashing Nigeria’s local fiat currency.
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Binance halted all naira trading activity on its platform in March 2024 after the detention of the executives and complaints from Nigerian officials that traders on the platform were destabilizing the naira.
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Gambaryan’s detention caught media attention after news broke that the executive was suffering from chronic health conditions yet reportedly denied adequate medical care.
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Last month, just days before former SEC Chair Gary Gensler was due to step down, the agency appealed a November ruling from a Texas federal court judge in a lawsuit brought by crypto trade groups the Blockchain Association and the Crypto Freedom Alliance of Texas.
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The agency has also delayed or paused litigation against crypto firms launched under Gensler’s leadership, seemingly with the aim to reconsider the actions after advice from the Crypto Task Force.
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“We are committed to offering a stablecoin that not only meets but exceeds the highest security and compliance standards,” said Marcelo Sacomori, CEO of Braza Group, in the Feb. 19 announcement.
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Trump’s order created a crypto working group led by White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks to come up with a legal framework for crypto and stablecoins, along with studying the possible creation of a national crypto stockpile.
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According to Reuters, Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) said Binance has a “significant economic presence” inside Nigeria and unpaid taxes from 2022 and 2023.
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Gambaryan’s detention caught media attention after news broke that the executive was suffering from chronic health conditions yet reportedly denied adequate medical care.
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Binance halted all naira trading activity on its platform in March 2024 after the detention of the executives and complaints from Nigerian officials that traders on the platform were destabilizing the naira.
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FIRS is also reportedly demanding a 26.75% interest payment on the back taxes allegedly owed by the company and continues to claim that the exchange was instrumental in lowering the value of the Nigerian naira in foreign exchange markets.
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