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View More NewsCoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1750.15, down 0.9% (-15.97) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday.Three of 20 assets are trading higher.Leaders: XLM (+10%) and HBAR (+0.2%).Laggards: ICP (-4.1%) and SUI (-4%).The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally. Read the full article here
A 56-year-old Florida resident has pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business in connection with a $1.8 billion fraudulent crypto platform.According to a statement from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, Rodney “Bitcoin Rodney” Burton conspired to provide unlicensed money transmitting services to promote HyperFund, a global wire-fraud scheme.Kelly O. Hayes, US Attorney for the District of Maryland and agents from the Washington Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation unit and Homeland Security Investigations, New York, announced Burton’s guilty plea on Wednesday.HyperFund is one of the largest crypto fraud schemes, which…
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Last Wednesday, 3 June, was surely one of the most shameful days in the Knesset’s 77-year history. Michael Rabello, the personal attorney of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was elected the country’s next state comptroller—the official who inspects, reviews, and audits government policy and conduct, and whose broad powers of inspection include the use of hundreds of lawyers, accountants, and other professionals under his authority.Israeli law stipulates that the Knesset vote for this position must be carried out in secret, with MKs casting ballots alone behind a screen. Rabello’s rival for the post, former Supreme Court justice Yosef Elron, won…
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