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Latam Insights Encore: El Salvador Shows Bitcoin Can Be a Catalyst to Power Tourism

29.7.2024
Welcome To Latam Insights Encore, a deep view of Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency-based news last week. In this edition, we discuss the positive impact bitcoin adoption had on the growth of the tourism industry in El Salvador and how this can be applied to other...

Hacker gets 3.5 years prison for $900K Coinbase login scam: Report

29.7.2024
A UK hacker faces prison for his Coinbase dummy website scam, an El Paso man’s alleged crypto “Ponzi” funded his lavish lifestyle, and Washington DFI flags the latest potential crypto fraud

Latam Insights: US Department of State Acknowledges Bitcoin Helped Revive El Salvador’s Tourism, Paraguayan Government Dismisses Power Fee Hike Concerns

29.7.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: The U.S. Department of State states bitcoin helped drive tourists to El Salvador, Paraguay dismisses concerns about power fee hikes for bitcoin mining...

Trump won’t sell US BTC if elected, what about seized assets?

28.7.2024
Questions abound concerning the Bitfinex and Silk Road funds if Trump is re-elected

Judge approves delaying forfeiture of donations from FTX-funded PACs

26.7.2024
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly donated roughly $40 million directly to political candidates and PACs in 2022 before the collapse of his crypto exchange

US Department of State Highlights Bitcoin’s Significance for Tourism in El Salvador

26.7.2024
The U.S. Department of State has highlighted the relevance of recognizing bitcoin as a legal tender for the rebirth of tourism in El Salvador. In a recently released investment climate report, the department states that this factor has given significant publicity to El Salvador, contributing to...

Venezuelan Crime Organization Tren De Aragua Gets Sanctioned by OFAC on Crypto Money Laundering Allegations

18.7.2024
Tren de Aragua (Aragua’s Train), a criminal gang with Venezuelan origins, has been sanctioned by OFAC as a transnational organization engaging in kidnapping, human trafficking, extortion, and other illegal behavior. The U.S. Department of the Treasury also stated that the organization...

BitMEX pleads guilty to Bank Secrecy Act violation

10.7.2024
BitMEX co-founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed pleaded guilty to similar criminal charges in 2022 and received probation

As DOE Preps for Take Two of Controversial Crypto Mining Survey, Industry Weighs in

10.7.2024
After the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) first attempt to survey crypto mining companies about their energy usage was kneecapped by a lawsuit, the department is getting ready to try again – but this time, it’s seeking input from crypto industry participants

US Senate recommends blockchain for national security tests

9.7.2024
The U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services urges the Department of Defense to explore blockchain for national security applications, including supply chain management

U.S. Treasury Issues Crypto Tax Regime For 2025, Delays Rules for Non-Custodians

28.6.2024
The IRS has now set up its reporting system for crypto brokers, but it set aside related rules for DeFi and unhosted wallets as it continues to study 44,000 comments to the agency

U.S. State Department Offers New $5M Reward for Missing ‘Cryptoqueen’

26.6.2024
OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova went missing in Athens in 2017

Mexican Cartels Using BTC, ETH, USDT, Other Tokens to Buy Fentanyl Ingredients: U.S.

20.6.2024
Criminal organizations in Mexico have been using several popular digital assets to buy the materials needed to make the drug fentanyl, according to the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which cited the use of bitcoin and other tokens in a Thursday advisory

Trader claims to lose $310K on dodgy exchange pitched in LinkedIn request

14.6.2024
The investor said they learned about the exchange from a “random friend request on LinkedIn.”

In Conversation With Brian Nelson

12.6.2024
Last October, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) – the U.S. Treasury Department's money laundering watchdog – announced a proposal to label crypto mixers as a "primary money laundering" concern, a move that alarmed a broad swath of the crypto industry. Treasury Under Secretary...

NYDFS Issues New Crypto Firm Guidance for Consumer Complaints

30.5.2024
New York’s top financial regulator has issued new guidance which requires cryptocurrency service providers to collect relevant data to assess whether they are resolving customer service requests and complaints in a timely and fair manner, it announced Thursday