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$20 Million Crypto Fraud Sends Texas Man To Prison For 23 Years A federal judge has sentenced 55‑year‑old Robert Dunlap of Texas to 23 years in prison for orchestrating a sprawling cryptocurrency fraud that stole roughly $20 million from close to a thousand investors. The 276‑month sentence follows his conviction in a Florida federal court…

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Pull In Nearly $1B in a Week as Investors Shift Back Into Risk Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) just posted their strongest week in more than three months, drawing in close to $1 billion as investors rotated out of traditional safe-haven assets and back into risk markets. According to data from SoSoValue,…

Texas promoter behind $20M Meta‑1 Coin scam gets 23‑year prison term A Texas man who helped run a multimillion‑dollar cryptocurrency scam built on fake claims of gold and fine art reserves has been sentenced to more than two decades in federal prison. Robert Dunlap, portrayed as a trustee and leading promoter of the Meta‑1 Coin…

Pakistan Eases Crypto Banking Clampdown For Licensed Firms Banks in Pakistan are now officially allowed to open accounts for licensed cryptocurrency companies, ending a years‑long blockade that had effectively shut the sector out of the formal financial system since 2018. The shift follows the country’s new legal framework for digital assets and marks the first…

US urged to abolish crypto capital gains tax to unlock real currency competition A policy scholar at the Cato Institute is calling for a sweeping change to how the United States taxes Bitcoin and other digital assets, arguing that the current capital gains regime effectively prevents cryptocurrencies from functioning as real money. Nicholas Anthony, a…