Binance Announces They Will Not Acquire FTX

Coin Center anticipates good policy in areas of securities and banking regulation, while "the outlook is less certain in the anti-money laundering, tax reporting, and sanctions areas."

Gary Gensler, the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has announced his intention to resign on January 20, 2025, according to a statement released on Thursday.

A dual Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison and forced to "pay a forfeiture money judgment" of around $395.5 million for his alleged operation of the "longest-running bitcoin money laundering service on the darknet."

OP_NEXT is a technical and workshop-heavy conference exploring Bitcoin softforks. It takes place at the Fidelity Center For Applied Technology in Boston, MA.