The US Attorney said the 35-year-old Virginia man funded “vile terrorist atrocities” and helped female Islamic State members escape Syrian prison camps.
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Jesse Coghlan is an Australian journalist and deputy editor on Cointelegraph’s Asia-Pacific newsdesk reporting on litigation, policy, and exploits. He previously co-hosted and produced a twice-weekly crypto news podcast and as a freelance reporter covered global social unrest, crime, and alternative culture.
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eToro aims for $4B valuation, $500M raise for US IPO Stock and crypto trading platform eToro is looking at a $500 million raise to value it at $4 billion when it goes public in the US.
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Samourai Wallet says feds hid advice that crypto mixer was in the clear Lawyers for Samourai Wallet’s founders claim prosecutors hid for over a year and a half that the Treasury told them the crypto mixer likely didn’t need a license.
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Donald Trump gives conflicting answers over memecoin profits Donald Trump said in an interview that he’s “not profiting from anything” related to his crypto memecoin, but quickly admitted that he hasn’t checked if he made a profit.
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OpenAI ignored experts when it released overly agreeable ChatGPT ChatGPT maker OpenAI admitted to listening to its users instead of expert testers who had warned something was off about its latest AI update.
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SEC bids to drop securities suit against Dragonchain over crypto ICO The Securities and Exchange Commission said in a joint stipulation with Dragonchain that it wants to drop its lawsuit, citing the work of its Crypto Task Force.
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Slovenia’s capital of Ljubljana ranked as world’s most crypto-friendly city Ljubljana, Slovenia, has taken the spot as the world’s most crypto-friendly city, beating out well-known crypto hubs Hong Kong and Singapore.
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US prosecutors file over 200 victim statements in Celsius ex-CEO’s case US prosecutors have shared over 200 victim impact statements in their case against admitted fraudster Alex Mashinsky, whose sentencing is set for May 8.
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LAPD recovers $2.7M worth of Bitcoin miners stolen in airport heist The Los Angeles Police Department said it seized $2.7 million worth of Bitcoin mining rigs allegedly stolen at the city’s airport from a shipment bound for Hong Kong.
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US Bitcoin ETFs clock biggest inflows since January as crypto markets gain Daily inflows into US-listed Bitcoin exchange-traded funds reached $381.3 million on April 21, their biggest single-day inflows since January.
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Gibraltar court ends 2-month freeze of 542M PLAY tokens amid legal dispute Gibraltar’s top court has unfrozen nearly two-thirds of the circulating supply of PLAY tokens after finding there was insufficient evidence to continue the freeze.
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Coinbase distances Base from highly criticized memecoin that dumped $15M A Coinbase spokeswoman told Cointelegraph that “Base did not launch a token” after the blockchain’s X account was slammed for sharing a tokenized, tradable social post.
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Northern Marianas vetoes bill for Tinian to launch its own USD stablecoin Northern Mariana Islands Governor Arnold Palacios has vetoed a bill that would have allowed a local government in the US territory to launch its own stablecoin.
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Bitcoin held by publicly listed firms climbs 16% in Q1: Bitwise At least twelve public companies bought Bitcoin for the first time in Q1 2025, helping to push total public firms' Bitcoin holdings up to a value of around $57 billion.
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Mechanism Capital founder doubles Bitcoin position with a $200M long Mechanism Capital founder Andrew Kang has put another $100 million bet that Bitcoin will gain in price, doubling a bet from days earlier.
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Crypto markets ‘relatively orderly’ despite Trump tariff chaos: NYDIG NYDIG analyst Greg Cipolaro says crypto futures rates have been “persistently positive” amid the Trump administration’s flip-flopping tariff regime.
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Nigerian court postpones Binance tax evasion case to end of April: Report A Nigerian court has adjourned the tax authority’s case against Binance until April 30 to allow time for the regulator to respond to a request from the company.
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SEC crypto trading roundtable to include crypto giants Uniswap, Coinbase Executives from Uniswap, Coinbase and Cumberland DRW are among the panelists in the SEC’s next crypto roundtable — firms the regulator had previously sued or probed.
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Alabama, Minnesota lawmakers join US states pushing for Bitcoin reserves Bills to create Bitcoin reserves have been introduced in 26 states, with Arizona currently the closest to passing a law.
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US House committee passes stablecoin-regulating STABLE Act The US House Financial Services Committee has passed a stablecoin framework bill, the STABLE Act, which will now head to a full House vote.
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink seeks patients globally to try its brain chips Neuralink has put out a global call for patients willing to test drive its brain chips, which allow people to control computers with just their thoughts.
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SpaceX flight bankrolled by crypto investor launches first manned polar orbit Among the crew is crypto entrepreneur Chun Wang, the founder of Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool, who also bankrolled the flight.
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Vanuatu passes long-awaited crypto laws that won’t be ‘light touch’ Vanuatu has passed crypto regulation and licensing legislation that a government adviser says is strict to dissuade bad actors that may seek to take advantage of small island nations.
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Japan’s finance watchdog says no plans yet to classify crypto as financial products Japan’s Financial Services Agency says it hasn't decided on if it will change financial laws after a local report claimed it would look to classify cryptocurrencies as financial products.
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MARA Holdings plans huge $2B stock offering to buy more Bitcoin Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings will offer up to $2 billion worth of its stock, the proceeds of which will partly be used to purchase more Bitcoin.
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Coffeezilla shouldn’t duck Logan Paul suit over CryptoZoo claims: Judge A Texas judge found Logan Paul “sufficiently alleged” Stephen Findeisen made defamatory remarks about CryptoZoo, and his lawsuit should go ahead.
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France’s state bank earmarks $27M for crypto with ‘strong French footprint’ Bpifrance is planning to buy tokens to support local crypto and blockchain projects, including those involved in decentralized finance, staking, tokenization and AI.
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Crypto urges Congress to change DOJ rule used against Tornado Cash devs A group of crypto firms claims the Justice Department is creating “confusion and ambiguity” for crypto with its interpretation of money-transmitting laws.
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Resolution to kill IRS DeFi broker rule heads to Trump’s desk US President Donald Trump is expected to sign off on a resolution undoing a rule that requires DeFi protocols to report to US tax authorities.
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SEC closes investigation into Immutable nearly 5 months after Wells notice The crypto gaming firm behind Ethereum layer-2 Immutable X said it received a letter of termination from the SEC that didn’t explain why it ended its probe.