SEC Warns Fake Officials Exploit Trust With Fraud Tactics Targeting Investors – Featured Bitcoin News

SEC Warns Investors About Impersonation Scams, Fraud Tactics The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shared on social media platform X on April 2 an investor alert warning about impersonation scams. The agency cautioned that fraudsters are posing as SEC officials through social media posts and text messages targeting investors. The regulator said: “Investor Alert:…

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Anthropic is having a moment in the private markets; SpaceX could spoil the party

Glen Anderson has been brokering trades in private company shares since 2010, back when the number of institutional investors focused on the late-stage private market could be counted on two hands. Today, he says, there are thousands. As president of the investment bank Rainmaker Securities, whose focus includes private securities markets — it facilitates transactions…

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Here’s What Researchers Are Doing to Protect Bitcoin From Quantum Threats

Rather than requiring changes to Bitcoin’s core rules, the approach lets users opt into quantum-resistant protection at the contract level. Blockstream Research has deployed what it says are the first transactions on a live Bitcoin sidechain protected by post-quantum cryptography. This is in direct response to growing warnings that powerful quantum computers could eventually…

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Coinbase Clarifies ‘We Are Not Becoming a Bank’ After Receiving Conditional OCC Nod That Hints at Bigger Moves – Exchanges Bitcoin News

Coinbase OCC Trust Charter Signals Federal Crypto Oversight Shift Crypto exchange Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) said it is not becoming a bank after announcing on April 2 that it received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), clarifying its regulatory direction. The move signals a shift toward federal oversight of crypto…

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