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While awaiting his sentence, Zhao has been skiing in the Rockies and cultivating friendships with rich and powerful people like Sam Altman and former Sen. Max Baucus, who wrote a letter to the judge urging leniency. Read more: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/04/30/binance-cz-changpeng-zhao-prison-sentence/

Read more: https://fortune.com/2024/04/10/sec-moves-to-sue-uniswap-in-bid-to-hobble-fast-growing-defi-sector/

Bitcoin has dropped 8% since Sunday night as demand for spot exchange-traded funds has cooled and hopes dwindle that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates soon: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/04/02/bitcoin-declines-etfs-outflows-fed-rate-cuts/

Louis d'Origny has bought almost 1,000 FTX bankruptcy claims since December 2022. https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/29/sbf-sam-bankman-fried-bankruptcy-fraud-claims-trading/

“The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious crime." https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/28/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-crypto-sentencing-conviction-kaplan/

The Securities and Exchange Commission is waging an energetic legal campaign to classify Ethereum, the second-most popular cryptocurrency, as a security, according to U.S. companies that have received subpoenas related to an investigation: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/20/sec-gary-gensler-ethereum-security-commodity-crypto-foundation/

U.S. President Joe Biden put forward a variety of crypto related taxes and regulations which he says could generate almost $10 billion next year, and over $42 billion over the next decade, according to his proposed 2025 budget: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/13/joe-bidens-latest-budge-proposal-calls-for-a-30-tax-on-crypto-mining/

Grayscale wants to launch a spinoff of its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, GBTC, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/12/grayscale-bitcoin-mini-trust-gbtc-spinoff/

Here’s a closer look at the odds Bitcoin’s creator could come back—and what it would mean if they did: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/07/bitcoins-black-swan-event-how-the-return-of-satoshi-could-pose-a-75-billion-threat/

The world’s largest and scandal-ridden crypto exchange today unveiled Crypto, its own luxury scent “blending finance with fragrance,” according to a statement: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/06/smells-like-crypto-binance-drops-perfume-that-blends-finance-with-fragrance/

Crypto has been a main area of focus for several of the Gulf countries, especially the emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, which saw an opportunity during the pandemic to pitch themselves as digital asset hubs: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/06/dubai-crypto-saudi-vara-blockchain-regulation-mena-middle-east/

A Donald Trump–themed, MAGA memecoin (TRUMP) has surged more than 700% over the last month, according to CoinGecko data, reaching a market cap of almost $500 million: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/04/trump-maga-coin-meme-nft/

As the legal debate continues over whether sales of cryptocurrencies constitute securities, all eyes have been on a court case involving a Coinbase employee sharing insider information with his brother and a friend. While the main defendant, former Coinbase employee Ishan Wahi, and his brother have reached settlements with both the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, the friend—Sameer Ramani—remains at large: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/03/sec-coinbase-insider-trading-kraken-howey-binance-ripple-terra/

Bitcoin’s price—above $63,000 on Thursday—has reached heights not seen in two years, but the coin’s upcoming halving event could push prices down to $42,000, according to analysts at JPMorgan: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/02/29/bitcoin-correction-jp-morgan-april-halving/

The SEC's approval of Bitcoin ETFs is a bullish outcome for the long term. What happens in the short term is much harder to predict: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/01/11/bitcoin-goes-public-what-the-etf-victory-means-and-what-comes-next/

Even if you have no interest in crypto, the current frenzy around Bitcoin ETFs is interesting purely as a matter of competitive strategy. There is a brand new market up for grabs that will be worth billions—perhaps trillions—and at least 13 companies are vying to get a piece of it: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/01/09/bitcoin-etf-companies-first-to-launch/

As Sam Bankman-Fried awaits his prison sentence, the spotlight has shifted to "Barb and Joe:" https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/11/13/sam-bankman-fried-awaiting-sentence-parents-joseph-and-barbara-civil-charges/

A 12-person jury found Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of seven counts on Thursday, the culmination of a year-long criminal proceeding following the November 2022 collapse of the crypto exchange FTX: https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/11/02/sam-bankman-fried-verdict-trial-ftx-fraud-jury-sdny/

Sam Bankman-Fried stumbles through cross-examination—and he wasn’t even in front of the jury: https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/10/26/sam-bankman-fried-cross-examination-stumble-ftx-jury-fraud-trial/