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  • Friday, 11 October, 2019
    Telegram Messaging
    SEC sues Telegram to halt $1.7bn digital token offering

    US regulator accuses messaging app of violating federal securities law

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2019
    Blockchain
    Block.one headed

    Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch.

  • Monday, 12 August, 2019
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    The Woz and the crypto wonga

    Steve Wozniak finds himself in Malta with a token offering endorsed by the prime minister himself.

  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2019
    Cryptocurrencies
    Chat app Kik fights back against SEC crypto lawsuit

    Company accuses US regulator of ‘twisting’ facts over its $100m initial coin offering

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2019
    David Hoffman
    Cryptocoin computer code fails on promoter claims

    Marketing for currency offerings promise investor protections that the assets do not deliver

  • Monday, 10 June, 2019
    Bitcoin
    Cartoon, June 10

    The Mega Files: Facebook wants to create ‘big, open’ global digital coin

  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2019
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    A $100m ICO being sued by the SEC wants more of your money

    FightTheSECCoin, anyone?

  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2019
    SEC sues messaging app Kik over $100m ICO
  • Monday, 3 June, 2019
    Financial services
    A crypto Buffett lunch is on the cards. Poor Warren Buffett.

    TFW you feel sorry for the third-richest person in the world.

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  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2019
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    LGC-Coin fights back against the Financial Times

    “We ask for consideration in publishing this momentous achievement which will change the complete cryptocurrency landscape for all.”

  • Friday, 3 May, 2019
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    Introducing the “exit coin” for the luxury sector

    The “prestigious LGC-Coin cryptocurrency”.

  • Thursday, 2 May, 2019
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Start-ups’ U-turn on crypto funding as scrutiny rises

    Lawyers scramble to help young companies comply with regulators’ rules

  • Monday, 15 April, 2019
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    The quality of chart needed to raise $2m in an ICO

    And then to shut up shop, with all the money gone.

  • Monday, 1 April, 2019
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    Why security tokens are categorically and absolutely not crypto tokens

    Pinch, punch, first of the month.

  • Friday, 29 March, 2019
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    The Bank of Hodlers [sic] (sigh)

    And the myth of decentralisation.

  • Thursday, 14 February, 2019
    FT People
    Financial Services

    Latest moves: JPMorgan diaspora, Wells Fargo, Credit Suisse, Goldman

  • Thursday, 29 November, 2018
    Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled settle SEC claims over ICOs

    Boxer and rapper were charged for failing to disclose payments for promoting digital currencies

  • Friday, 26 October, 2018
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas
  • Thursday, 25 October, 2018
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    Another Tory MP gets into crypto, then quits
  • Friday, 19 October, 2018
    Bitcoin
    No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  • Tuesday, 25 September, 2018
    The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  • Friday, 7 September, 2018
    Blockchain
    Britain's first blockchain-enabled co-working space isn't blockchain-enabled
  • Wednesday, 5 September, 2018
    FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
    The UK parliament's blockchain APPG continues, sans Shapps
  • Monday, 3 September, 2018
    FT Alphaville
    The baroness, the ICO fiasco, and enter Steve Wozniak
  • Friday, 24 August, 2018
    Cryptocurrencies
    China warns public over ‘blockchain’ Ponzi schemes

    Retail investors told to be on guard against buzzwords and dubious marketing claims

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