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New York Man Charged With Trafficking Credit Card Info, Using Bitcoin to Launder Proceeds
28.5.2020
Vitalii Antonenko, 28, has been indicted for allegedly stealing and selling reams of payment card data, the proceeds of which he laundered in bitcoin
Bittrex Is Puzzled Over 24M Stolen STEEM Tokens on Its Holding Account
21.5.2020
Bittrex’s co-founder Richie Lai on 24 million seized STEEM tokens on their account: “We must live by the rules of the blockchain”
If You Held Crypto on CoinGather in 2017 the US Government Wants to Give it Back
3.5.2020
The FBI is seeking individuals who held crypto assets on CoinGather who appeared to conduct an exit scam in November 2017
COVID-19 Domain Seized After Attempted Sale for BTC
26.4.2020
The fraudulent domain was seized after its owner attempted to sell it to a Homeland Security Department agent
$15 Million Bounty on Maduro: US Charges Venezuelan President With Narco-Terrorism, Corruption, Drug Trafficking
27.3.2020
The U.S. has charged 14 high-ranking officials of the Venezuelan government, including President Nicolas Maduro, with “narco-terrorism, corruption, drug trafficking and other criminal charges.” The U.S. government is offering rewards of up to $15 million for any information leading...
US Says Venezuelan President Maduro Hid Massive Drug Ring Proceeds in Crypto
26.3.2020
Nicolas Maduro and his crypto supervisor were two of the Venezuelan officials indicted Thursday on claims they used crypto to conceal the profits from drug running
Mt. Gox Casts a Dark Shadow of Crypto’s Collapse — A Long Fight for Justice
25.3.2020
“There's no longer one dominant exchange handling the bulk of all trading”: Kim Nilsson hopes there won’t be another Mt. Gox shock to crypto
US Charges North Korea-Linked Chinese Nationals for Laundering Over $100 Million in Stolen Cryptocurrency
3.3.2020
The U.S. government has charged two Chinese nationals involved in laundering stolen cryptocurrency worth $100 million from an exchange allegedly for the benefit of North Korea. They are linked to the U.S.-designated North Korean state-sponsored Lazarus Group. A total of 113 cryptocurrency accounts...
Ukraine Justice System Employee Caught Mining Crypto at Work
27.2.2020
The IT staffer is alleged to have illegally mined cryptocurrency and run websites from court administration servers
Wells Fargo Fined $3 Billion for 15 Years of Illegal Practices Affecting Millions of Customers
23.2.2020
Wells Fargo, one of the largest U.S. financial services companies, has agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve the U.S. government’s investigations into fraudulent sales practices spanning over 15 years. The Wells Fargo fraud case involved the company forging customer signatures, moving money...
US Department of Justice Is Criminalizing Onchain Privacy, Starting With Mixers
14.2.2020
The American government’s long-running war on privacy escalated this week following the arrest of Coin Ninja’s Larry Harmon on money laundering charges. A Department of Justice statement that “seeking to obscure virtual currency transactions in this way [using mixers] is...
Digital Courts Trial Decentralized Justice, Real World Weighs Verdict
27.1.2020
Can contractual disputes and conflicts be legally resolved by blockchain-powered game theory protocols?
US Citizen Accepting Bitcoin for Narcotics Indicted by DOJ
3.1.2020
Joanna De Alba "dispensed heroin and methamphetamine from the shadowy corners of the internet," said U.S. Attorney Richard P. Donoghue
Crypto’s Counterpunch to U.S. Hegemony and Empire
27.12.2019
“The Muslim world should be designing measures to save themselves from the domination of the United States dollar and the American financial regime.” —Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran Also Read: Crypto Confronts Social Justice Warriors Hegemony and Muslim Resistance Hegemony...
Crypto Confronts Social Justice Warriors
24.12.2019
“Many men are lamenting the “man-hating” rhetoric that they have imagined stemming from SJWs. It just so happens that many of these men are also heavily involved in cryptocurrencies due to the notion that Bitcoin can restore their libertarian ideals.”– Ross Chalmers...
Blockstream’s ‘Watchtowers’ Will Bring a New Justice System to the Lightning Network
20.12.2019
Watchtowers, a semi-trusted payment channel sheriff, is designed to keep the peace among lightning nodes
Ross Ulbricht Clemency Petition Gathers 250,000 Signatures
7.12.2019
On Friday, the Clemency for Ross Ulbricht petition hosted on Change.org surpassed 250,000 signatures. The solicitation for signatures started in July 2018 and gathered roughly 6,200 signatures during the first three days. Now with a quarter of a million signatures asking U.S. President Donald Trump...
Ex-DOJ, Capital One Exec to Lead Compliance at Crypto Payments Startup Celo Labs
26.11.2019
C Labs, the company working on Celo, is bringing on former DOJ official Jai Ramaswamy to head compliance
U.S. Gov’t Extradites Alleged Fraudster for Selling Fake Securities for $11 M in BTC
19.11.2019
U.S. extradites man for selling investors shares in gold company that had no gold in exchange for over $11 million in Bitcoin and other cryptos
International Law Enforcement Conference Addresses Crypto and the ‘Criminal Economy’
15.11.2019
The 2019 National Proceeds of Crime Conference (NPOCC) held in Brisbane, Australia from November 13-15 addressed “Globalisation and Digitisation of the Criminal Economy,” and featured 200+ delegates hearing from representatives of organizations such as the Australian Federal Police...