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2 weeks ago | 
coingeek.com | Jordan Atkins
Homepage > News > Business > Staking status uncertain as SEC pulls brakes on ETFs The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has written to the owner of two proposed exchange-traded funds (ETFs), warning that the staking components of their products may make them ineligible for a regulated exchange listing.
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3 weeks ago | 
coingeek.com | Jordan Atkins
Homepage > News > Business > Patent hoarder claims to own Bitcoin’s Elliptical Curve Cryptography Digital asset miners are being sued by a company that claims to hold patents to the elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) that is fundamental to the operation of Bitcoin, in a move that could implicate the entire ecosystem. The lawsuits were filed earlier this year against two miners—Mara (NASDAQ: MARA) and Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ)— by an entity called Malikie.
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1 month ago | 
coingeek.com | Jordan Atkins
Homepage > News > Business > Uniswap sued by patent holders over DeFi technology The developer behind decentralized exchange Bancor has claimed IP rights over the core technology underpinning the entire DeFi industry in a new suit aimed at fellow decentralized Uniswap.
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1 month ago | 
coingeek.com | Jordan Atkins
Homepage > News > Business > Court of Appeal drastically limits damages available in BSV investor class action The U.K. Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal over the damages available to BSV investors over a group of exchanges’ delisting of BSV, heavily reducing the potential damages available in the case.
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1 month ago | 
coingeek.com | Jordan Atkins
Homepage > News > Business > Fight over billions in damages over BSV delisting heats up An appeal over precisely how much money BSV investors can recover off a group of digital asset exchanges accused of unlawfully colluding to delist BSV took place in London this week, with the representative of the BSV investor class arguing that the impact on BSV’s growth should entitle holders to more than £9 billion ($11.9 billion) in damages.
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2 months ago | 
coingeek.com | Jordan Atkins
Homepage > News > Finance > SEC hints at future regulatory framework under new guidance The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has provided some clarity on how the rules governing securities registration and disclosure apply to digital asset offerings in a guidance statement released on April 11.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
coingeek.com | Gavin Lucas |Steve Kaaru |Jordan Atkins |Kurt Wuckert Jr
Homepage > News > Business > Kurt Wuckert Jr. talks scaling Bitcoin at The Subversive Spectrum podcast This week, CoinGeek’s Chief Bitcoin Historian, Kurt Wuckert Jr., joined The Subversive Spectrum podcast to talk about privacy, the need to scale Bitcoin, how little ‘crypto’ has actually achieved, and much more. Why not Monero? As Agorists and advocates for human liberty, Sal the Agorist and his co-host are interested in why Wuckert isn’t more involved in a privacy coin like Monero.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
coingeek.com | Steve Kaaru |Jordan Atkins |Jacob Rozen
Homepage > News > Business > Cryptojacking hackers blackmails YouTubers; Lazarus’ new malware North Korea-linked Lazarus Group is on the prowl again, and this time, it has infected a new batch of JavaScript packages with malware that steals digital assets. Elsewhere, a Kaspersky report has revealed that a group of cybercriminals have been blackmailing YouTubers into including cryptojacking malware on their video descriptions.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
coingeek.com | Jordan Atkins |Jacob Rozen |Gavin Lucas
Homepage > News > Business > Internet’s future is decentralized: World Wide Web founder You open your browser, and as a 21st-century netizen, your natural first impulse is to click on Facebook or something like it—some platform to which you first signed up to keep in touch with your friends and family or maybe even make new ones.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
coingeek.com | Jordan Atkins |Steven Stradbrooke |Jon Southurst
Homepage > News > Business > Latin America: A natural vanguard for stablecoin revolution Latin America’s young, highly connected population and long history of political instability and currency volatility make it a natural home for the right kind of stablecoin. Latin America has high levels of intra-regional migration and a young population rapidly leaving behind its traditional, cash-based model of transacting in favor of debit cards and mobile payments.
