#OpenSea ex-employee charged in first NFT insider trading case

#OpenSea ex-employee charged in first NFT insider trading case

“OpenSea ex-employee charged in first NFT insider trading case” US prosecutors in Manhattan on Wednesday charged a former product manager at OpenSea, the largest online marketplace for non-fungible tokens, with insider trading, the first such case involving digital assets. Nathaniel Chastain, 31, of Manhattan, was accused of secretly buying 45 NFTs on 11 separate occasions based on confidential information that the tokens, or others by the same creator, would…

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#Public order is the government’s job

#Public order is the government’s job

“Public order is the government’s job” Can we agree that though police and the criminal-justice system are imperfect, the alternative to a government monopoly on keeping law and order — armed chaos and disorder — is far worse? Apparently not on the extremes of the right and left that dominate the political debate. The pragmatic…

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#At least four shot overnight across NYC: cops

#At least four shot overnight across NYC: cops

“At least four shot overnight across NYC: cops” At least four people were shot across the city overnight, authorities said.  A man in his 30s was standing at the corner of Sutphin Boulevard and Ferndale Avenue in Jamaica around 3 a.m. Memorial Day when he was blasted in the leg, cops said.  He was taken…

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#Seven people shot in NYC during Memorial Day weekend

#Seven people shot in NYC during Memorial Day weekend

“Seven people shot in NYC during Memorial Day weekend” Seven people were shot Sunday morning in separate incidents in New York City, two of them fatally, police said. The fatal shootings both took place in Brooklyn, the first at around 12:22 a.m., when a 45-year-old man identified as Donovan Davy was struck in the neck…

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