CHPS Podcast Episode 2: Bitcoin in the Halls of Power
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 66 – The U.S. Strategic Reserve and the Emerging Multipolar Crypto World + Recent Developments in US Virtual Asset Regulation with Henri Arslanian and Andrew Fei
A Conversation with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
Crackdown on DeFi? An Examination of the CFTC's Enforcement Action Against Uniswap — The Crypto Exchange
Ep. 11 - Crypto & Consumer Protection: Insights from a Former FTC Official
Crypto & Politics: Insights from Former Congressman David McIntosh
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Nation: A Government Insider’s View
FINCast Ep. 38 – The Future of Crypto: A Conversation with Coinbase’s Faryar Shirzad
No Password Required: CEO of Paragon Cyber Solutions, Family-Night Game Champion, and Calculated-Risk Taker
Creating A User Friendly Blockchain with Andrew Levine, CEO, Koinos Group
From Station Wagon to Lamborghini: One CypherPunk’s Journey from Cryptoanarchy to Solana Cross-Chain NFT Innovations
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Blockchain for Beginners: Basic Tax Issues for Digital Assets
Introducing The Crypto Exchange Podcast
An Introduction to Crypto for Financial Services Professionals
The Justice Insiders: Largest Bitcoin Seizure in DOJ History – Crypto Can Be Traced!
JONES DAY TALKS®: Takeaways from a Landmark Cryptocurrency Antitrust Case
This Week in FCPA-Episode 252 – the Musk and Bitcoin edition
Episode 181 — Cryptocurrency Review: Matt Stankiewicz Discusses the SEC’s Case against Ripple, Predictions under the Biden Administration, and Bitcoin’s Corporate Surge
Business and Legal Issues Around Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Nota Bene Episode 58: The Advantages of Using Cryptocurrencies and Other Blockchain Technologies for Business Growth with James Gatto
A recent court case has unveiled a new level of sophistication in attacks targeting high-net-worth cryptocurrency holders. In a meticulously orchestrated scheme, hackers managed to steal more than $40 million in bitcoin from...more
Welcome to our sixth volume and first issue of 2025 of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. We have been publishing for six years and could not continue without our committed readers and your insights....more
Crypto Payments Firms Announce New Integrations and Initiatives - According to reports, fintech bank Revolut recently announced a partnership with Ledger, a major crypto hardware wallet provider, to make it easier for...more
The systems healthcare providers use to provide safe and reliable patient care, and their confidential patient information, provide attractive targets for hackers using ransomware to extort payment....more
On June 2, 2022, CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), the FBI, the Department of the Treasury and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a joint Cybersecurity Alert warning companies of the...more
The Cryptocurrency Revolution and President Biden's Formal Recognition - Out of the ashes of the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin sprang up like an insurgency, targeting both the unbridled activity of large financial...more
Speaking at last week’s Munich Cyber Security Conference, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the formation of a new FBI unit dedicated to blockchain analysis and virtual asset seizure – the Virtual Asset...more
U.S. Bank Seeks to Launch Stablecoin; New Crypto Payments Data Released - A well-known digital payments consortium sold its technology platform this week to a U.S.-based bank known for its cryptocurrency-related offerings....more
During the first half of 2021, 68 different ransomware attacks extracted approximately $600 million from victims across the United States. The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) says that the...more
Recently, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department, released a report on ransomware trends stating that during the first half of 2021, 68 different ransomware variants...more
El Salvador Buys 200 Bitcoins as the Digital Currency Becomes Legal Tender - "El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as a national currency, kicking off a radical monetary experiment that could pose risks to...more
As ransomware attacks continue to become more of a concern for employers of all sizes, an increasing number of hackers are demanding cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin in exchange for ending their attack. The recent ransomware...more
You just can’t make this stuff up – the Justice Department, displaying its growing sophistication of the cyber world, announced it recovered most of the ransom paid to criminal hackers of Colonial Pipeline Co. (Colonial)....more
In an unusual and exciting twist to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week that it was able to retrieve $2.3 million of the $4.4 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to...more
The recent ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS led to a flurry of calls to ban Bitcoin (and cryptocurrency generally) as enabling and incentivizing these attacks. Given the difficulty of tracking the...more
It has been barely a month since we reported on the recent ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline Company, yet news continues to break with additional revelations about the recent attack. What we have learned during the...more
On June 7, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it seized 63.7 of the 75 bitcoins paid by Colonial Pipeline to ransomware attackers last month. The recovered bitcoins were valued at $2.3 million at the time of...more
Crypto Rating Council releases its securities law framework - On May 11, 2021, the Crypto Rating Council (CRC) released the securities framework it developed to assess the likelihood of a digital asset being deemed a...more
Crypto Firms Launch New Services, MIT Seeks to Improve Bitcoin Codebase - A San Francisco-based cryptocurrency custody firm successfully completed an $80 million funding round, following its recent procurement of a federal...more
Jones Day Hit by Data Breach as Vendor Accellion Hack Widens - "Jones Day is the second major law firm in two weeks to have private data exposed as a result of a breach at Accellion, which provides file transfer and other...more
Indian news outlet Inc42 has reported that the ShinyHunters hacking group found some shiny objects when it was able to compromise the personal information of hundreds of thousands of individuals using the crypto exchange...more
Recent Enforcement Actions and Guidance from DOJ, FinCEN, and OFAC Demonstrate the Increased Commitment — and Cooperation — of Federal Regulators to Police Digital Currencies, Including Their Use in Ransomware Attacks - Amid...more
VIDEO: Cryptocurrency - Legitimate Uses and Potential Issues - Following the recent publication of the U.S. Attorney General's cryptocurrency enforcement framework, Spilman attorneys Corey Bonasso and Nick Mooney discuss...more
Earlier this year, we reported on an evolution in the form of cyberattack known as ransomware –attackers transitioning from denying affected users access to critical data by encrypting it to removing data from the compromised...more
The New York State Department of Financial Services issued a press release on Thursday announcing the publication of its investigative report of the July 2020 Twitter hack. The exhaustive report reviews the facts surrounding...more