@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-23 17:19:00
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-25 21:05:54
Kyrgyzstan launches a national stablecoin and a CBDC in partnership with Binance; CZ says a national cryptocurrency reserve includes Binance's BNB token (Aigerim Turgunbaeva/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-24 00:38:36
Donald Trump issued a pardon for the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange on Thursday.
Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty in late 2023 to one count of failing to maintain an anti-money laundering program and stepped down as CEO of Binance,
which paid $4.3bn to settle related allegations.
He was sentenced to four months in prison.
Zhao, who is often referred to by his initials CZ, is one of the world’s richest people and biggest names in cryptocurrency.
@steve@s.yelvington.com2025-10-23 17:34:14
Just another corrupt Trump crony getting a pardon.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/trump-pardons-binance-founder-changpeng-zhao/
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-10-23 18:53:13
Trump pardons former Binance CEO after guilty plea in letting cybercrime proceeds flow through platform https://therecord.media/changpeng-zhao-former-binance-ceo-pardoned-donald-trump
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-23 15:26:00
Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p62#a251023p62
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-24 00:01:43
Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-24 04:18:00
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-25 06:35:56
How Changpeng Zhao's pardon frees him to refocus on reclaiming ground in the US market, where Binance.US only has a 0.75% share of bitcoin trading volume (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/bina…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-14 09:10:44
An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing up poor in China, the tests she faced during Binance's year of crisis when CZ was imprisoned, and more (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/13/binance-yi-he/
