Former Coinbase employee is first charged with insider trading in crypto industry

By Jack Birle

Published July 22, 2022 8:02pm ET

Former Coinbase employee is first charged with insider trading in crypto industry — Coinbase employee Daniel Huynh holds a celebratory bottle of champagne as he photographs outside the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York's Times Square, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Wall Street will be focused on Coinbase Wednesday with the digital currency exchange becoming a publicly traded company. | (Richard Drew/AP)

A former Coinbase employee and two others have been charged for an insider trading scheme. Prosecutors say it is the first insider trading-related charge involving cryptocurrency.

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