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Key EU Parliament Committee Approves MiCA Deal to Regulate Crypto
12.10.2022
European Parliament’s economic committee has backed the adoption of the comprehensive Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation. It has also supported the introduction of rules for tracing cryptocurrency transfers, part of the latest EU anti-money laundering push. European Union’s MiCA Crypto...
Interoperable QR Payments Reach Record Number in Argentina
12.10.2022
Interoperable QR payments, a system that allows all digital wallets in Argentina to make payments in several stores, reached a record number in September. According to official numbers, 3.15 million payments were completed using this system, including cryptocurrency-based payments that exchanges...
Brazilian Court Grants Bank Right to Inspect Debtor’s Crypto Wallets
6.10.2022
A court in Brazil has ruled that a major commercial bank is allowed to inspect one of its debtors’ crypto wallets – and has stated that crypto has “monetary properties.”...
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Man and Machine: Nansen’s analytics slowly labeling worldwide wallets
4.10.2022
Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik sat down with Cointelegraph for an exclusive interview during Token2049
S&P Global Report Says EU and UK Are in a Recession, Putin Thinks the West Is Greedy
2.10.2022
Today’s blustery global economy has everyone on edge as inflation has wreaked havoc on the wallets of ordinary people and energy prices continue to soar worldwide. According to Credit Suisse, “the worst is yet to come,” as the global investment bank’s analysts believe...
Delaware DOJ Freezes Wallets, Accounts in 'Pig Butchering' Crypto Scams
29.9.2022
A total of 23 entities including wallets, accounts and individuals, were traced in this stealthier version of a common crypto romance scam
Robinhood Debuts Web3 Crypto Wallet to 10K Customers — Beta Version Supports Polygon
27.9.2022
The American financial services company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Robinhood Markets, Inc., announced the launch of a new non-custodial Web3 crypto wallet on Tuesday and said the product supports the Polygon blockchain network. The application is currently for iOS users only...
Are noncustodial crypto wallets a practical option for the everyday hodler?
21.9.2022
Noncustodial wallets are more secure than custodial wallets, but it may take time for everyday, non-technical users to get used to them
Wallets like MetaMask need to become more user-friendly
17.9.2022
Most wallets feel like they were created for developers. That’s becoming a bigger problem in terms of both practicality and security as crypto adoption increases
Sales of Hardware Crypto Wallets Decline in Russia With Easing Currency Restrictions
16.9.2022
Interest in hardware wallets allowing cold storage of cryptocurrencies is decreasing among Russian users after this year’s surge that followed the invasion of Ukraine. The sale volumes for these devices have almost halved, according to a report quoting leading marketplaces. Russians’...
Central Bank of Argentina Issues New Compliance Rules for Digital Wallets
15.9.2022
The Central Bank of Argentina has issued a new set of rules for operators of digital wallets in the country. Customers of companies like Uala, a wallet popular in Argentina, will now be qualified as financial users, having new protections similar to those offered by banks and other financial...
Hardware wallets to take similar approach to potential Ethereum hard fork
14.9.2022
Forked coins have proven to be lucrative in the past. Holders of Ethereum came to possess an equivalent amount of Ethereum Classic when it forked in 2016
Linux Launches Foundation to Bolster Open-Source, Multi-Purpose Crypto Wallets
13.9.2022
On Tuesday, the non-profit technology consortium, the Linux Foundation, announced the launch of the Openwallet Foundation (OWF) in order to bolster the development of open-source crypto wallets. OWF’s goal is to increase “interoperability for a wide range of wallet use cases”...
Trezor and Wasabi to Implement a Coinjoin Mixing Scheme Into Hardware Wallets
7.9.2022
This week, the hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor, and the non-custodial bitcoin wallet with a built-in Coinjoin mixer, Wasabi, revealed the two teams are working together to introduce Coinjoin mixing into hardware wallets. On Sunday, Wasabi tweeted “hardware wallet Coinjoins are coming...
Another 5,000 Bitcoin Sourced From Mt Gox Wake up After Close to 9 Years of Dormancy
5.9.2022
Last week Bitcoin.com News reported on two old bitcoin addresses created in 2013 sending 10,001 bitcoin to a myriad of wallets. Heuristics and clustering techniques indicate that the bitcoins were associated with Mt Gox, roughly around the same time the exchange was hacked in June 2011. Five days...
62% of wallets did not sell Bitcoin for a year amid the bear market: Data
2.9.2022
Majority of traders have held Bitcoin for one year and above, 32% held for BTC one month up to a year and 6% have held for less than a month, data reveals
Whale Spends 10,000 BTC Worth $203M, Bitcoins Stem From the Infamous 2011 Mt Gox Hack
30.8.2022
In two days’ time, bitcoin’s price dropped to fresh August lows as it dipped below the $20K per unit region for the first time since mid-July. During that time, two addresses created on December 19, 2013 sent 10,000 bitcoin worth $203 million to unknown wallets after sitting idle...
Meta announces Facebook and Instagram users can post NFTs from digital wallets
29.8.2022
“This will enable people to connect their digital wallets once to either app in order to share their digital collectibles across both," said Meta
Millions of dollars in ETH lie unclaimed in presale wallets — but there's a way to get them back
26.8.2022
Did you know that over 500 Ethereum presale wallets are yet to be recovered… and collectively, they have a value of several billion dollars?
Celsius Countersues Keyfi Founder, Company Claims Millions Were Stolen From Crypto Lender’s Wallets
24.8.2022
Roughly seven weeks after Keyfi founder Jason Stone filed a lawsuit against the crypto lender Celsius, the company has filed a countersuit against Stone claiming that he stole millions from Celsius wallets and allegedly “pocketed seven-figure returns.” Stone’s attorney Kyle...