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Federal prosecutors flew a suspect back from Fiji to face charges in a $165 million crypto Ponzi scheme

Federal prosecutors say Edward Zimbardi, the man accused of running a $165 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, was deported from Fiji on Aug. 14 and flown...

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Edward Zimbardi was deported from Fiji and charged in a $165 million crypto Ponzi that wiped out investors

A Georgia man accused of orchestrating a $165 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that drew in thousands of investors was deported from Fiji on August 14...

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Trump signed an order clearing 401(k) plans to hold private equity and crypto, raising the stakes for savers

A single executive order has redrawn the boundaries of what can sit inside the retirement account most working Americans rely on. In August 2025, President...

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Celsius founders were ordered to pay $16.5 million over crypto deposit safety claims

Celsius Network’s founders were ordered to pay $16.5 million to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges centered on how the crypto platform described customer deposits. The...

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A new Labor Department rule would open 401(k) plans to Bitcoin and other alternative investments

The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule on March 30, 2026, that would give 401(k) plan fiduciaries explicit authority to offer Bitcoin and other...

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Regulators have classified Bitcoin and 15 other crypto assets as commodities

Crypto exchanges, asset managers, and individual traders now operate under a clearer federal framework after the SEC and CFTC jointly declared in March 2026 that...

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Georgia’s new law adds safeguards at crypto kiosks, a favorite tool of elder scammers, on July 1

Older adults who fall for phone scams and are told to deposit cash into a cryptocurrency kiosk will soon encounter new barriers in Georgia. Starting...

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Bitcoin’s slide below $64,000 erased $1.1 billion in leveraged bets in one day

Traders holding high-leverage crypto positions lost more than a billion dollars in forced liquidations after Bitcoin dropped below $64,000 in a single session. The selloff...

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Federal agents arrested 276 people in a global “pig butchering” crypto crackdown

At least 276 people were arrested across multiple countries in a coordinated strike against Southeast Asian scam compounds that ran “pig butchering” cryptocurrency fraud schemes...

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Bitcoin ETFs are now buying ten times more coins each day than miners can produce — a supply squeeze building since April’s halving cut new supply in half

During the first full week of May 2026, U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds pulled in a net 31,500 BTC, according to daily creation and redemption...

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Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled out $1 billion last week — the worst exit since early February, as BTC slid under $77,000 over the weekend

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed roughly $1 billion in net outflows during the trading week ending Friday, June 6, 2025, their steepest weekly drawdown since...

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Bitcoin dropped below $79,000 over the weekend — institutional ETFs pulled out $635 million in a single day, the biggest crypto exit since January

Bitcoin dropped below $79,000 over the weekend – institutional ETFs pulled out $635 million in a single day, the biggest crypto exit since January Investors...

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Gold dropped 1.4%, silver fell 2%, and Bitcoin slid below $81,000 — investors fled inflation hedges the same day Treasury yields hit 18-year highs

At 1:03 p.m. Eastern on May 15, 2026, the U.S. Treasury closed the books on a new 30-year bond auction. The clearing yield came in...

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Bitcoin held above $81,000 — spot ETFs pulled in $1.63 billion since May 1, and Tom Lee says the crypto winter is over if BTC closes May above $76,000

Bitcoin was trading above $81,000 in mid-May 2026, holding a level it had not touched in more than three months. The rally did not hinge...

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Coinbase cut 700 employees, replaced managers with “player-coaches,” and just posted a $394 million loss — its CEO says mass AI layoffs are coming to “every company”

On May 5, 2026, Coinbase Global told the Securities and Exchange Commission it was eliminating roughly 700 jobs, about 14% of its worldwide workforce. The...

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Bitcoin crossed $81,000 for the first time since January — up 17% in a month — as Iran de-escalation hopes pull money out of gold and into risk assets

Bitcoin punched through $81,000 during early Asian trading on May 4, 2026, a level it had not touched since late January, capping a rally of...

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Bitcoin briefly crossed $80,000 — up 17% in one month — while Ethereum ETFs lost $82 million as investors rotated into BTC

Bitcoin punched through $80,000 on May 4, 2026, touching an intraday high of $80,594 and marking its strongest level in three months. The breakout capped...

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Bitcoin is at $78,174 with 58.5% market dominance — but the entire April rally was driven by futures, not actual buying

Bitcoin is at $78,174 with 58.5% market dominance – but the entire April rally was driven by futures, not actual buying Bitcoin sits at $78,174...

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Canada is banning every crypto ATM in the country after scammers used them to steal $704 million from Canadians

Walk into almost any Canadian convenience store, gas station, or shopping mall and you will likely spot a crypto ATM tucked near the entrance. There...

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Crypto downturn is forcing some traders to cut grocery and daily spend

By the time Bitcoin crested above $100,000 in late 2024, a 23-year-old warehouse worker posting on Reddit’s r/CryptoCurrency forum said he was routing half of...

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