It’s “better to ask for forgiveness than permission” when it comes to complying with the law, the billionaire founder of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange once told his team, according to the US government. “The DOJ should have charged dozens of people connected to Binance and should have not only prosecuted them and punished them but barred them from the financial …
U.S. authorities toppled the king of crypto. Since Zhao resigned last month, Yi He, 37 years old, has assumed Zhao’s mantle as Binance defender-in-chief, calling critics “mediocre and hopeless" on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. Yi He recruited volunteers called Binance Angels to spread Zhao’s gospel that crypto would liberate people from traditional finance. The Binance spokesperson said …