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Joel Ortiz, a UMass Boston student from Allston who was arrested in California last year for stealing $5 million in cryptocurrencies, has pleaded guilty and will accept a 10-year prison sentence. Ortiz is a 2016 valedictorian of Another Course to College, a small Boston pilot school that specializes in college prep classes. He was arrested at a

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is hurting the crypto industry, too. As the impasse in Washington stretches into its record-breaking fourth week, the closure of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has put key developments – namely, the approval and launch of products and services involving

United States crypto-focused law firm Silver Miller has filed a lawsuit against a purported crypto hedge fund manager who was allegedly operating a fraudulent Ponzi scheme. The court documents were published to the Silver Miller website Dec. 26. The case — which has been filed at the Court of the Southern District of New York