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Joint police and FCA action underlines law enforcement attention on cryptoasset activity
Amid Authorities increased focus on the regulation of cryptoassets in the UK, law enforcement agencies have carried out unprecedented raids targeting illegally-operated cryptocurrency ATMs.
It was reported on 14 February 2023 that West Yorkshire police had joined forces with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to carry out a number of raids on crypto machines across the…
Litigation trends for 2023 – The metaverses – Tech’s next great schism
The ‘metaverse’ is one of the most hyped, and simultaneously poorly defined, concepts of the ‘new age’ of the internet’s evolution. To a certain extent a result of the vision promoted by Mark Zuckerberg when announcing Facebook’s pivot and rebranding to become ‘Meta’, the term conjures up images of fantastical worlds populated by other-worldly avatars.…
Civil Fraud Quarterly Round-Up: Q3 2022
The English Court: A Fraudster’s Crypto-nite
The English High Court, in Mr Dollar Bill Limited v Persons Unknown and Others [2021] EWHC 2718 (Ch), has once again come to the rescue for victims of fraud – this time armed with a Norwich Pharmacal Order to be served outside the jurisdiction.
The “Crypto Fraud”
Following its investment of Bitcoin via a trading…
NFTs and Real Estate – The Purpose, Prospects and Possibilities
In March 2021 Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sold his very first Tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million. Around the same time the Land Registry ran a series of pilots to explore the possibility of using blockchain technology, such as NFTs, to provide some much needed modernisation and efficiency to the property buying process. The…