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Back in 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Ripple, alleging that the company broke securities laws when it sold its XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) cryptocurrency to investors. Ripple ...
In 2020, XRP's parent company, Ripple, was sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The regulator claimed that the company sold XRP as an unregistered security, a pretty big no-no.
The open-source project was originally called "Ripple", the unique consensus ledger was called the Ripple Consensus Ledger, the transaction protocol was called the Ripple Transaction Protocol or RTXP and the digital asset (known as "ripples") using XRP as the three-letter currency code to follow the naming convention of BTC for Bitcoin.
The firm funds accepted startups with up to US$50,000 (equivalent to $66,411 in 2024) in XRP, Ripple's native currency, in exchange for a 3% to 6% stake in diluted common stock. Mentorship and support is provided by CrossCoin and Ripple Labs, Inc. [19] Ripple also developed early partnerships with companies such as ZipZap. [20] [21]
OneCoin logo on the door of their office building in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2016. OneCoin is a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme [1] [2] conducted by offshore companies OneCoin Ltd (based in Bulgaria [3] and registered in Dubai) and OneLife Network Ltd (registered in Belize), both founded by Ruja Ignatova in concert with Sebastian Greenwood. [4]
The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million — which he sent to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who had ...
The CFTC found that currency traders at the five banks coordinated their trading with traders at other banks in order to manipulate the foreign exchange benchmark rates, including the 16:00 WM/Reuters rates. Currency traders at the banks used private chatrooms to communicate and plan their attempts to manipulate the foreign exchange benchmark ...
Trump maintained that position after he left the office and as recently as 2021, when he told Fox Business in one interview that bitcoin “just seems like a scam.”