# CFTC (Page 10)

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating whether major crypto exchange BitMEX broke rules by allowing Americans to trade on the platform, which isn’t registered with the agency, Bloomberg reported, citing "people familiar with the matter."The months-long CFTC...

Online Bitcoin reward shopping app Lolli has partnered with travel site Hotels.com – adding to a list of travel partners that already includes hotel groups Hilton and Marriott, as well as sales sites Booking.com, Hotwire, AirBnB rival VRBO and Priceline.Customers making purchases made via the...

Social media giant Facebook is in “very early stages of conversations” with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over its digital coin, Christopher Giancarlo, the outgoing head of the CFTC, told the Financial Times.These talks should help clarify whether the...

A cryptocurrency trader has received 15 months of prison time for misappropriating more than USD 1.1 million worth of Bitcoin and Litecoin, in the first such case in Chicago, Illinois. The US criminal justice system warns that although cryptocurrency is a relatively new concept in this case, they...

The price of bitcoin fell sharply on Sunday and early Monday morning after Coinrail, South Korea’s 7th biggest exchange said it was hacked, possibly to the tune of over USD 37.3 million.According to data from Coinbase, bitcoin dropped 10% to around USD 6,770 – the lowest level for the...