Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight joined CoinDesk as a news reporter in April 2022. Before joining CoinDesk, Knight was the Chief Reporter at Coin Rivet for three years. Having graduated with a journalism degree from Birmingham City University, Knight went on to work at various sports publications before diving into the world of Bitcoin in 2014. He does not have any crypto holdings.

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Bithumb's former chairman is facing charges of fraud. (Shutterstock)
South Korean Prosecutors Seeking 8-Year Sentence for Ex-Bithumb Chairman
Lee Jung-hoon, who led the company that operated the exchange, is charged with committing $70 million in fraud.
Bithumb's former chairman is facing charges of fraud. (Shutterstock)
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Crypto Exchange FTX to Compensate API Phishing Victims With as Much as $6M
Sam Bankman-Fried has said this is the last time FTX will compensate users for a phishing attack.
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Ankara, Turkey (Ekrem Osmanoglu/Unsplash)
Turkish Authorities Seize Crypto Worth $40M in Illegal Gambling Sting
Investigators are probing a $135 million transaction that links back to organized crime groups in the country's capital city Ankara.
Ankara, Turkey (Ekrem Osmanoglu/Unsplash)
Binance has registered an entity with regulators in Cyprus. (Sasha Cures/Unsplash)
Binance Wins Registration as Crypto Asset Service Provider in Cyprus
The crypto exchange can now offer more types of digital-asset services.
Binance has registered an entity with regulators in Cyprus. (Sasha Cures/Unsplash)
(Terra)
Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon Still Says He's Not on the Run
The South Korean developer also continued to dismiss claims that $67 million was frozen on crypto exchanges OKX and KuCoin.
(Terra)
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms has joined an industry privacy group that includes many blockchain companies. (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)
Meta Platforms Follows Blockchain Firms in Joining Cryptographic Privacy Group MPC Alliance
The Facebook parent joins the likes of Bolt Labs, Ciphermode Labs and Partisia Blockchain in becoming a member of the group.
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms has joined an industry privacy group that includes many blockchain companies. (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)
The co-founders of Offchain Labs, the firm behind Arbitrum. (Offchain Labs)
Arbitrum Founder Dismisses Launch of First Mainnet zkEVM
Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfeder has said that a zkEVM is "not 12 days away from mainnet."
The co-founders of Offchain Labs, the firm behind Arbitrum. (Offchain Labs)
Antminer bitcoin mining rigs (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Fails to Produce 1 Block for Over an Hour
An 85-minute block interval left more than 13,000 transactions stuck in a pending state on Monday.
Antminer bitcoin mining rigs (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)
(Micha Brandli/Unsplash)
North Korean Hacker Group Lazarus Targets Japanese Crypto Firms
Lazarus Group has been targeting Japanese firms with phishing links via email and social media.
(Micha Brandli/Unsplash)
Ellis Pinsky, aka "Baby Al Capoine, will pay $22 million in a SIM-swap case. (Andrey Metelev/Unsplash)
'Baby Al Capone' Agrees to Pay $22M in AT&T SIM-Swap Case
Ellis Pinsky, the hacker, was the point person in a scheme to steal about $24 million in cryptocurrencies while he was still in high school.
Ellis Pinsky, aka "Baby Al Capoine, will pay $22 million in a SIM-swap case. (Andrey Metelev/Unsplash)