Jun 2024 Crypto Industry Updates
Table of Contents
Content will be sorted chronologically with latest at the bottom.
- Robinhood acquires Bitstamp in $200 million deal [Jun 2024]
- Robinhood announced it has agreed to acquire Bitstamp, a European crypto exchange, for around $200 million.
- CoinGecko Confirms Data Breach
- CoinGecko disclosed a data breach on its third-party email platform, GetResponse, leading to over 23,000 phishing emails being sent.
- While user accounts and passwords remain secure, sensitive information, including names, email addresses, and IP addresses, was exposed.
- Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, founder of Binance, started a four-month prison term in Santa Barbara, California
- CZ admitted to violating the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) in November.
- SEC Closes Investigation Into Ethereum [19 Jun 2024]
- This means the SEC will not bring charges that ETH sales are securities transactions.
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