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View More NewsIn brief The co-director of the Ethereum Foundation is leaving the organization. The departure continues a trend of turnover at the Ethereum-focused organization. Earlier this year, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin signaled that the Foundation would become leaner and more focused. Hsiao-Wei Wang, a co-director at the Ethereum Foundation, is stepping away from her post effective immediately, according to a post on social media, marking the latest high-profile departure of Ethereum leadership.Wang’s announcement follows her sabbatical and the February departure of her fellow co-director, Tomasz Stańczak. Following Stanczak’s exit, Bastian Aue was named interim co-director alongside Wang.“During my break, Bastian guided…
The punishments of Alexander Mashinsky, the imprisoned former chief of Celsius until its high-profile collapse, continue with a formal banishment from any ability to seek business with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission or the trading it oversees.The derivatives regulator didn’t pile any new fines onto Mashinsky, who previously pleaded guilty to accusations he misled the public about the health of his failing crypto firm as it was imploding, but the agency added an expected registration and trading ban, according to a Thursday statement. That’s a minor addition to the 12-year prison sentence imposed in his criminal case, in 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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