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Price data by
Sander Lutz

Sander Lutz

Sander is a senior writer at Decrypt reporting on crypto policy from the White House. He covers crypto's impact on politics, law, and culture. Sander graduated from UC Berkeley and holds a masters in history from Cambridge. Disclosure: No significant crypto holdings.

Stories by Sander Lutz

  • David Solomon is the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Image: Decrypt/Flickr/Creative Commons

    Goldman Sachs CEO Owns 'Very Little' Bitcoin, Backs Bessent on Clarity Act

    Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Wednesday that crypto companies who think they can walk away from an industry market structure bill currently stalling in Congress “should move to El Salvador.” Solomon was invoking the words of U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who said earlier this month that certain crypto leaders—who have argued they reject the bill if they don’t like its final language—are “nihilists” who should move to the Latin American nation. Bessent went further a few days late...

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    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Man in handcuffs. Source: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Connecticut Man Faces 375 Years for Gambling Away Crypto Investors' Funds on Stake

    A 24-year-old Connecticut man has been accused by federal prosecutors of taking almost a million dollars from would-be crypto investors and gambling away the funds online. The man, Elmin Redzepagic, allegedly marketed himself as a savvy crypto investor who earned high rates of return. But upon collecting funds from clients, prosecutors claim, he would deposit them in Stake, the controversial offshore crypto casino. Redzepagic lost investors over $950,000 with such activity, the Department of Jus...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Closeup of the seal of the SEC at its headquarters in Washington, DC. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    SEC Chair Suggests Some Prediction Markets Could Fall Under Agency’s Jurisdiction

    SEC chair Paul Atkins said Thursday that the Wall Street regulator could soon involve itself in the regulation of prediction markets—a move that could have significant implications for the exploding sector. During testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Atkins identified prediction markets as an industry that should potentially be overseen by both the SEC and its more hands-off sister agency, the commodities-focused CFTC. Up to now, the CFTC has been considered the default regulator for p...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Israel flag. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Israelis Arrested Over Alleged Insider Polymarket Trades on IDF Military Secrets

    Two Israelis have been charged with using classified information to make bets about the nation’s military operations on Polymarket. The Israelis, an IDF reservist and a civilian, have been charged with severe security offenses, bribery, and obstruction of justice, according to local reports. Prosecutors have alleged the army reservist accessed classified information about Israel’s planned attack on Iran in June 2025, and then shared it with the civilian to place multiple Polymarket bets.  Most...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • DOJ signage. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Bitcoin Exchange Paxful Must Pay $4 Million Over Prostitution, Money Laundering Charges

    Paxful, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange that closed in 2023, was sentenced this week by a federal court to pay $4 million in fines after pleading guilty to multiple criminal charges. The company reached a plea agreement with the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department in December, admitting to knowingly transferring funds implicated in money laundering, fraud, and prostitution, and commercial sex trafficking schemes. The company facilitated some $3 billion in trades between 2017 and...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • SEC Chair Paul Atkins. Image: SEC/Decrypt

    'This Is Not Good for Crypto': Lawmakers Slam SEC Chair for Easing Industry Policing

    Democratic lawmakers skewered SEC Chair Paul Atkins at a hearing Wednesday, accusing the regulator of turning a blind eye to crypto scams with connections to President Donald Trump—and weakening the legitimacy of the digital assets industry as a result. “People are losing trust,” Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) told Atkins during a Wednesday hearing before the House Financial Services Committee. “This is not good for crypto, it’s certainly not good for consumers.” “And it’s awful,” he continued, “the...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried outside Manhattan federal court in July 2023. Photo: Decrypt/André Beganski

    FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Requests New Trial After Firing Attorney

    Convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried formally requested a new trial in Manhattan on Tuesday, days after firing his attorney. The disgraced FTX founder is currently representing himself. Bankman-Fried had his mother, Stanford Law ethics professor Barbara Fried, file the motion for a new trial on his behalf. The filing, first reported by Inner City Press, requests a new trial under Rule 33 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. That rule allows any defendant to request a new trial within thr...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • CFTC. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    CFTC's 'Top Cop' Legal Team Eliminated Amid Embrace of Crypto, Prediction Markets: Report

    The CFTC office widely regarded as the regulator’s “top cop” has been reduced to non-existence—at the same time the Trump administration has sought to put the shrinking agency in charge of crypto and the exploding prediction market sector. The CFTC’s flagship Chicago office—which handles the agency’s most complex enforcement actions, and once employed 20 enforcement attorneys—had been slashed down to just a single enforcement lawyer, according to a new Barron’s report citing sources familiar wit...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • A Polymarket-themed hat given out for free at Bitcoin 2024. Image: André Beganski/Decrypt

    Polymarket Sues Massachusetts Ahead of Looming Ban of Kalshi Sports Markets

    Polymarket went on the offensive Monday in the ongoing battle of prediction markets against Massachusetts regulators, claiming in a federal lawsuit that the state lacks authority to regulate its platform. Last month, a Massachusetts judge gave a green light to regulators seeking to temporarily ban Polymarket rival Kalshi from offering sports markets in the state. On Friday, the court issued an order requiring Kalshi to geofence Massachusetts from its sports-related markets within 30 days. Should...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • South Korea and Bitcoin. Image: Decrypt

    Investigators Circle as Bithumb Reveals Compensation Plan for $43 Billion Bitcoin Error

    South Korean regulators have begun investigations into Bithumb, days after the crypto exchange accidentally sent some $43 billion worth of Bitcoin to hundreds of customer accounts. At a Monday press conference, the head of South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service told reporters that the error “laid bare the structural problems of virtual asset exchanges’ ledger systems.” The regulator plans to strengthen on-the-ground supervision of financial institutions by introducing punitive fines for IT...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Vince Dioquino, Sander Lutz
  • South Korea and Bitcoin. Image: Decrypt

    South Korean Crypto Exchange Accidentally Gave Away $43 Billion in Bitcoin

    A South Korean crypto exchange accidentally credited users with billions of dollars’ worth of Bitcoin this week, triggering a flash crash in the platform’s listed value of the token. Instead of airdropping users 2,000 won (a sum worth $1.37 at writing), the exchange, Bithumb, reportedly sent 2,000 BTC apiece, users said. That massive sum was worth some $142 million at writing, with Bitcoin trading around $71,000 as of Friday when the issue was first disclosed. According to local reports, the acc...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Image: United States Department of the Treasury/Decrypt

    Treasury Secretary: Crypto 'Nihilists' Who Say They Don't Need Clarity Act 'Should Move to El Salvador'

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issued stern words Thursday to crypto stakeholders who think they can live without a market structure bill, stating it’s “impossible to proceed” with regulating crypto in the United States if the legislation does not pass Congress. “There seems to be a nihilist group in the industry who would prefer no regulation over this very good regulation,” Bessent said during testimony today before the Senate Banking Committee. “We have to get this Clarity Act across t...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in 2024 at a Trump/Vance Event. Image: Decrypt

    Can the Government 'Bail Out' Bitcoin? Congressman Prompts Bizarre Exchange With Treasury Secretary

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent entered a convoluted tussle on Capitol Hill Wednesday about the nature of Bitcoin, after fielding a question from a congressman about the token’s potential role in a future financial crisis. “Does the Treasury Department… have the authority to bail out Bitcoin?” Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) asked Bessent today, during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee. The Treasury Secretary paused for a moment before asking Sherman to elaborate. “What exac...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Vitalik Buterin. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    'We Need a New Path': Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Rips Up L2-Focused Roadmap

    Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said Tuesday that the network must find “a new path” involving less dependence on layer-2 scaling networks, also known as L2s. “The original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense,” Buterin wrote in an X post. For years, Ethereum developers have pursued a long-term goal of “scaling” the network, which would effectively mean creating enough available block space to allow all manner of applications and transactions to flow on the network,...

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    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Jeffrey Epstein. Image: Decrypt/Mug shot

    Jeffrey Epstein Was an Early Investor in Coinbase, Emails Reveal

    Jeffrey Epstein made a multimillion-dollar investment into crypto exchange Coinbase in 2014, and the company’s leadership appears to have been aware of the convicted sex offender’s involvement in the deal, newly surfaced emails indicate. Epstein made a $3 million investment in the crypto exchange in December 2014, according to a new trove of emails released Friday by the U.S. Justice Department. The investment opportunity was initially presented to Epstein by Tether co-founder Brock Pierce and P...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • SEC Chair Paul Atkins. Photo: André Beganski/Decrypt

    SEC Chair Atkins Walks Back Timeline for Crypto Innovation Exemptions

    SEC Chair Paul Atkins appeared to walk back a timeline for issuing sweeping crypto-related exemptions on Thursday, just days after Wall Street leaders met with agency officials to express concerns about the plan. The exemptions would hand crypto companies a guarantee that activity in certain areas, such as tokenized securities and decentralized finance (or DeFi), would not trigger any enforcement action from the SEC. Atkins said last month that he wanted the exemptions released in January, and f...

    NewsLaw and Order
    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Senator Cory Booker. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Senate Democrats Say They Want a Crypto Bill—But Republicans Tanked Negotiations

    Democrats on the Senate Agriculture Committee said Thursday they are deeply committed to passing a crypto market structure bill—but argued that Republicans, and particularly the White House, have risked derailing the legislation by walking away from bipartisan negotiations. For months, senators on the committee from both parties have worked to find common ground on a bill that would firmly legalize most of the U.S. crypto industry. But earlier this month, committee chair Sen. John Boozman (R-AR)...

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    3 min read
    Sander Lutz

  • Japanese Banking Giant’s Crypto Subsidiary Applies for US Banking Charter

    The crypto-focused subsidiary of Japan’s largest investment bank has joined the growing list of digital asset firms seeking a coveted banking charter from the U.S. Treasury Department. The subsidiary, Laser Digital, is based in Switzerland and owned by the Nomura Group, the Tokyo investment banking and brokerage giant. On Tuesday evening, Laser announced it had filed an application with the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to form a national trust bank.  The bank, Laser Digital Nat...

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    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Closeup of the seal of the SEC at its headquarters in Washington, DC. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Top Wall Street Firms Met With SEC Crypto Task Force to Discuss DeFi Concerns

    As crypto’s coveted market structure bill stalls in the Senate, top Wall Street players met with the SEC Tuesday to discuss numerous concerns with the regulator’s permissive approach to digital assets. Representatives of JPMorgan, Citadel, and SIFMA, the powerful securities industry trade group, met with the SEC’s crypto task force yesterday to talk through the agency’s bold new approach to digital assets, according to agency records. Topics raised at the meeting included worries that the SEC’s...

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    3 min read
    Sander Lutz
  • Moscow, Russia. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Crypto Crime Hit All-Time High in 2025, With Russian Stablecoin Playing Key Role: TRM Labs

    Illicit crypto volume blasted to an unprecedented high of $158 billion last year, in large part thanks to a trendy new stablecoin that appears designed to evade international sanctions. Last year’s deluge of illicit crypto activity represents a 145% surge compared to 2024, according to a new report from blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs. Driving that increase is a new Russia-linked stablecoin that has become tremendously popular for evading sanctions and conducting state-aligned sanctioned e...

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    2 min read
    Sander Lutz
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