5 mai 2022

The price of cryptocurrency XRP plunged after the SEC filed a lawsuit alleging that Ripple Labs, a blockchain company that supports the digital currency, sold more than $1 billion of XRP virtual tokens without registering with the agency. According to the SEC’s lawsuit, the duo ignored legal advice that the cryptocurrency could be considered an investment contract and therefore was a security. Chinese authorities in the south-west province of Sichuan ordered bitcoin mining projects to close. China’s largest bitcoin-producing provinces have intensified a crackdown on cryptocurrency mining in the latest sign of how authorities are toughening their stance on the rapidly growing digital asset markets.Read More →