The charges against Binance

Описание: The charges against Binance: what are the accusations, and what's next for Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao?

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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:34 History
00:04:46 Binance's locus of operations
00:05:34 Growth
00:06:38 "Compliance"
00:11:01 Level 1 and Level 2 accounts
00:12:51 Failure to identify users
00:15:24 Criminal activity on the platform
00:18:14 "Tai Chi" entity
00:19:42 Binance.US established
00:24:10 Keeping US customers on the global exchange
00:31:13 Merit Peak and Sigma Chain
00:34:36 Market manipulation
00:37:58 The legal complaints
00:42:50 Why?
00:45:25 The charge details
00:53:01 What's next for Binance?
00:57:34 What's next for CZ?
01:00:34 Outro