On Friday SEC attorney William uptergrove
said in court that SEC staff believed that Finance U.S might be an unregistered Securities
Exchange binance International the world's largest Cryptocurrency exchange and binance U.S their U.S
regulated entity seemed to be in hot water after A new Wall Street Journal article was published
sharing previously unseen telegram chats between Binance International Leadership and binance
international employees fretting over their U.S ties also revealed was how the binance team
tried to recruit Gary Gensler onto team binance A telegram group chat reveals the binance team's
skittishness over regulatory scrutiny Finance the World's largest cryptocurrency exchange reportedly
didn't disclose the extent of its ties and control Over binance us a supposedly independent unit
set up to comply with U.S financial regulations According to the Wall Street Journal which cited
its internal document in Communications that it Said it has reviewed what are the key takeaways
from The Wall Street Journal report well binance International programmers allegedly reportedly
based in Shanghai had control over the software Code that supported binance U.S users digital
wallets which could give them access to U.S Customer data The Wall Street Journal reported
citing internal telegram text messages from 2019 In addition while binance International said it no
longer accepted U.S customers upon the launch of The U.S entity its officials reportedly discussed
ways to keep U.S investors including encouraging The use of vpns the Wall Street Journal report
says now there were a few other things but to Give you the other side of the story what
does binance say about these allegations Well a binance spokesperson told forecast via
telegram we have already acknowledged that we Did not have adequate compliance and controls in
place during the early years while growing at such A rapid Pace we made some intentional missteps
which have been now rectified also a binance U.S Spokesperson cited by The Wall Street Journal
in the story said that the company and binance Never mixed user data they claim binance us and
binance never mixed user data well what about The Gary Gensler connection that was also in the
Wall Street Journal article financed by far the World's largest crypto exchange was also among
many firms that sought to bring Gary Gensler into The fold as an advisor while he was teaching at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT the Report said as many as two years before Gensler
became a chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission binance tried to poach him the journal
signed in many documents and interviews with Former employees but also quoted from a group chat
among key members of the binance team including CZ Of meeting with Gensler CZ reportedly wrote while
Gensler declined advisorship he was generous in Sharing license strategies the idea that binance
Global has greater control role of binance us then Either company is willing to admit is probably
not good for how binance will be perceived by U.S Regulators coindesk reporter nikelish D Finance
Global has much greater control of Finance U.S Than the you know either company is willing to
admit is probably not great for how binance and
Binance us will be perceived by U.S Regulators
on Friday SEC attorney William uptergrove said In court that SEC staff believed that Finance us
might be an unregistered Securities Exchange but Before that we've heard concerns from Regulators
that Finance U.S acquiring voyagers assets Might run foul of foreign investment rules and
regulations so I imagine that the Wall Street Journal report forms a weekend suggesting that
Finance has much greater control and access to Binance us will probably be an additional you know
spanner in the works of that acquisition but also Um you know last week lawmakers asked binance
about what was going on with Finance us we've Heard Regulators before you know expressed
concerns about the possibility that brightness Us is not an independent exchange all of those
concerns I imagine are going to be heightened In other Regulatory and cryptocurrency Exchange
News the justice department is now pushing for An independent investigation of the FTX collapse
unsure if this independent investigation will be Allowed to happen do you think aspi app should
be investigated to the full extent of the law Because in other news Sam bankman freed wants
to watch Netflix and read crypto news while On house arrest while awaiting trial the U.S
attorney submitted a new request to limit the Websites and online services Sam bankman
freed can use while SPF awaits his day in Federal court he should be allowed to conduct
legal research online keep up with news keep up Sports shop on Amazon and place food delivery
orders this all according to a letter submitted To the court by U.S attorney Damian Williams
a previous request that focused on messaging Applications was rejected last month by federal
judge Lewis Kaplan hopefully the food delivery Request the Amazon request or the Netflix request
hopefully I don't know do you think SBF should Be allowed to watch Netflix in a year or two
the shows are going to be about him Dogecoin Dropping 10 percent on the week that Elon Musk
turns his attention to AI as meme coin promoter Elon Musk turns his attention from crypto to AI
Dogecoin appears to be bearing the brunt of this Week's losses so that's what everybody's saying
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he's interested in Ai and this is from something He tweeted quote I used to be encrypt crypto but
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say this yet people are still saying that perhaps Elon Musk isn't in to Dogecoin as much because
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sat next to Murdoch I don't know it just seems To me that Elon Musk isn't as into Dogecoin as
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silly joke Dogecoin is uh better suited for Transactions why is that the total transaction
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