Oracle (ORCL. N) CEO Clay Magouyrk said he has confidence in OpenAI's ability to pay for the vast amount of cloud infrastructure services it consumes. OpenAI can "certainly" afford to pay $60 billion for a year's worth of cloud resources, Magouyrk said in an interview at Oracle's artificial intelligence world conference on Monday. In July, OpenAI reached a five-year deal with Oracle worth more than $300 billion. "Looking at how fast they're growing, you know, almost 10...
According to the @Cointelegraph market news, Justin Sun said that as TRX prices and transaction costs rise, the Tron community will adjust network fees to keep the network competitive.
Alex Mashinsky, the former CEO of Celsius, has pleaded guilty to two counts and asked for a one-month delay in the trial until May 8. The U.S. Attorney's Office has not yet agreed.
In 2024, Ethereum charges $2.48 billion, the most of all blockchains, followed by Tron with $2.15 billion. According to a report by CoinGecko on January 21, Bitcoin is in third place with $922 million. Ethereum's fee revenue last year increased by 3% compared to $2.41 billion in 2023. Lim Yu Qian, research analyst at CoinGecko, wrote: "This shows that while the Dencun upgrade in March 2024 has reduced L2 transaction costs, users are migrating from the L1 chain to their L2 extensions.
On January 19, the Securities Exchange Commission charged Nova Labs, Inc. ("Nova Labs") with allegedly offering cryptoassets as securities in an unregistered manner and defrauding investors. According to the SEC complaint, from April 2019 to the present, Nova Labs made unregistered securities offers and sales while providing and selling electronic devices called "Hotspots" (used to mine Nova Labs' cryptoassets) and "Discovery Mapping" (a program that allows users to exchange their private data f...
The Department of Justice announced money laundering charges against three Russian citizens for running U.S.-sanctioned cryptocurrency mixing services Blender and Sinbad, which were allegedly used by North Korean hackers to hide cryptocurrency proceeds from cybertheft. Two of the gang members were arrested last month, but the last one remains at large. Brent S. Wible, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, said the encryption mixers were used by state-sponsored hackers.
South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeok: Will not escape legal charges.
After Nigeria dropped charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan and released him on Wednesday, the U.S. State Department announced that it has joined forces with Nigeria to establish the Bilateral Liaison Group on Illicit Finance and Cryptocurrencies to jointly combat cybercrime and cryptocurrency-related financial misconduct. The announcement said: "The United States works with global partners to promote cyberspace and digital technologies while combating and responding to malicious cy...
According to Tree News, the Nigerian government has dropped charges against Binance executives.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has accused banking giant TD Bank of failing to report suspicious activity from an anonymous group of customers engaged in international cryptocurrency transactions. FinCEN said TDBank processed more than 2,000 transactions in nine months from a company called "Customer Group C" (allegedly engaged in sales financing and the real estate industry). Customer Group C falsely reported its expected international telegraphic transfer activity to TD Bank...