Coinbase remains ‘100% committed’ to US market: Armstrong

    The Coinbase CEO has a lot of faith that Congress will make a “clear rule book” for crypto firms to follow. But the Securities and Exchange Commission? Not so much. United States-founded cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has no plans to move its operations out of the U.S., CEO Brian Armstrong told investors in an Q1 earnings…

    Coinbase faces suit over alleged privacy violations in biometrics collection

    The proposed class action lawsuit alleges the exchange violated privacy laws in Illinois when it collected and stored users’ fingerprints and facial scans. Coinbase violated biometric privacy laws in Illinois through its collection and storage of customer fingerprints and facial templates, a proposed class-action lawsuit alleges. A May 1 filing in a California District Court by a…

    Coinbase exec uses ChatGPT ‘jailbreak’ to get odds on wild crypto scenarios

    According to ChatGPT, there’s a 15% chance that Bitcoin will “fade to irrelevancy,” with prices falling 99.99% by 2035. A Coinbase executive claims to have discovered a “jailbreak” for the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT that allows it to calculate the probability of bizarre crypto price scenarios. The crypto exchange’s head of business operations Conor Grogan,…

    ‘Crypto is dead in America’: Tech billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya

    Palihapitiya did concede the crypto sector has “pushed more boundaries” than other startup sectors, which may have attracted the SEC’s attention. Regulators in the United States have choked out the cryptocurrency sector to the point of death, according to Bitcoin bull and billionaire tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya. “Crypto is dead in America,” he boldly claimed in an April…

    Celsius auction has Gemini and Coinbase as new bidders: Report

    Two new consortiums will dispute the assets of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network in an auction scheduled for April 25 in New York. Two new consortiums will dispute the assets of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network in an auction scheduled for April 25 in New York. According to reports and court filings, crypto exchanges Gemini…

    Binance’s market share drops on CFTC suit and no-fee trading halt: Report

    Binance’s market dominance fell largely due to its decision to end zero-fee trading for some trading pairs and not the CFTCs lawsuit, says Kaiko. The dominance of cryptocurrency exchange Binance in trading volume market share has slipped over the past two weeks following a lawsuit from the United States commodities regulator and its decision to…