
On January 24th, according to foreign media analysis reports, there is an interesting sentence in the policy statement of the Bank of Japan that expresses the bank's confidence in the market: "Global financial and capital markets remain generally stable". It is reminiscent of comments made by Kazuo Ueda and other officials in August last year, when they said they would not raise interest rates when the market was unstable.
A Kazakh court has sentenced three cryptocurrency exchange operators to prison terms. According to an official report by the Kazakh government-run Financial Supervisory Agency (AFM), the court sentenced the three to between 2.5 and 3.5 years in prison, and the bailiffs confiscated their assets worth $750,000.
A U.S. federal judge has sentenced HDR Global Trading Limited, also known as the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, to two years of non-supervised probation and a $100 million fine. On January 15, at a hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge John Koeltl ruled against BitMEX. About six months ago, the cryptocurrency exchange admitted to violating the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).
On January 14th, Meta CEO Zuckerberg reiterated Huang Renxun's statement that "quantum computing is still a long way from application". Recently, Zuckerberg said in an interview that he supports the industry's consensus on quantum computing. "I'm not an expert on quantum computing, but I understand that it is still some way from becoming a truly practical paradigm," Zuckerberg said. Overnight quantum computing concept stocks fell, D-WaveQuantum closed down 33.62%, Rigetti Computing fell 32.25%, ...
On January 10, local time on January 10, the New York State Superior Court judge ruled in the case of President-elect Trump's "hush money", ruling that Trump was guilty of 34 counts in the case, but in view of the important stage of the presidential power transition process, he was released unconditionally without any punishment.
Court documents show that Trump's sentencing decision was postponed until November 19.
A US court has sentenced Chirag Tomar, a 31-year-old Indian man who stole more than $20 million by impersonating the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange site, to five years in prison and two years of supervised release. Tomar has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and will serve time in federal prison.
Russia has sentenced a former chief investigator, Marat Tambiyev, to 16 years in prison after he was found to have accepted 1,032 BTC bribes, now worth $65 million, from a group of hackers. Last year, Tambiyev was accused of accepting BTC bribes from people associated with the "Infraud Organization", a hacking group being investigated by Russia's Investigative Committee. As part of the agreement, Tambiyev agreed not to confiscate the group's illegally obtained bitcoins. He subsequently received ...
The South Korean live streaming host was sentenced to a heavy sentence for crypto asset fraud. The Eastern District Court in Seoul sentenced Xu to 15 years in prison on the 30th. Xu was accused of recommending to victims to invest in crypto assets (tokens) issued by his company or related businesses, and misappropriating the investment funds. In addition, Seo is also accused of embezzling more than 11 billion won (about $8.23 million) and using company account funds to buy virtual gifts on Afree...