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Dutch Law Enforcement Arrests Suspected Tornado Cash Developer in Amsterdam
12.8.2022
According to a statement from the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), law enforcement officials in Amsterdam arrested an unnamed 29-year-old suspected of developing the ethereum mixing application Tornado Cash. FIOD accuses the suspect of “concealing criminal financial...
Crypto Exchange Hotbit Suspends Service After Law Enforcement Freezes Its Funds, Subpoenas Senior Managers
12.8.2022
Crypto exchange Hotbit has announced the suspension of trading, deposits, withdrawals, and funding on its platform. The exchange said law enforcement has frozen some of its funds and subpoenaed some senior managers as they investigate a criminal case involving the exchange’s former employee....
Uzbekistan Moves to Block Foreign Cryptocurrency Exchanges
12.8.2022
Authorities in Uzbekistan are restricting access to online crypto trading platforms based outside the country and not registered under its laws. A presidential decree obliges citizens and local companies to only use digital asset exchanges licensed by the government of the Central Asian nation....
Bitpay Reveals Prepaid Cardholders Can Get up to 15% Cash Back Rewards via Select Retailers
11.8.2022
The Atlanta-based crypto payment services company Bitpay has announced that Bitpay’s prepaid cardholders are eligible for cash back rewards if they use their card with participating retailers. The rewards feature stems from Bitpay’s partnership with Cardlytics and cardholders can...
Flutterwave Kenya License Controversy: Fintech Giant Reportedly Applied in 2019
11.8.2022
The Nigerian fintech unicorn, Flutterwave, reportedly said it submitted an application for a payment service provider license to the Central Bank of Kenya back in 2019. The fintech also said it has remained in constant contact with the central bank and is hopeful it will get the license....
Defi Attacker Siphons $570,000 From Curve Finance, Crypto Exchange Fixedfloat Freezes 112 Ethereum
10.8.2022
Reports indicate that the decentralized finance (defi) protocol Curve was hacked for $570,000 in ethereum after people noticed that Curve’s front end was exploited. The attackers then tried to launder the funds via the crypto exchange Fixedfloat, and the trading platform’s team...
Crypto Trading Platform Hotbit Suspends Service Amid Criminal Investigation Into Former Employee
10.8.2022
Hotbit suspended crypto trading, deposits and withdrawals due to a criminal investigation into a former employee that led law-enforcement authorities to freeze some of the firm's funds
Bitcoin without internet: SMS service allows sending BTC with a text
10.8.2022
“A person literally without no internet access can go from having no Bitcoin to having Bitcoin and then go to spending Bitcoin,” Kgothatso Ngako explains
Decentralizing the Internet: How Wayru is Bringing People Together with Blockchain
10.8.2022
In 2011 the UN released a report declaring the internet a Human Right, but over a decade later millions of people in developing countries still lack the necessary means for a simple WiFi connection, many of which reside in Latin America. This is due to industry control by a few large Internet...
OFAC’s Tornado Cash Ban Causes Github Suspensions and the Blacklisting of Crypto Addresses Holding $437M
9.8.2022
On August 8, the ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash, and all the crypto addresses associated with the platform, were officially banned by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC). Following the ban, the internet hosting service for software and open source code...
Committing CSS Crimes
9.8.2022
The time for CSS-Tricks is over. Now is the time for CSS Crimes!
In this current landscape of content service providers, users are often limited to expressing themselves in text, links, and images. Sanitization rules tend to strip out HTML, …
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Crypto Mixing Service Tornado Cash Blacklisted by US Treasury
8.8.2022
The U.S. Treasury Department barred all U.S. persons from using Tornado Cash, alleging its use in laundering stolen crypto funds by North Korean hackers poses a national security threat
Ethereum Name Service founder reflects as 2 million registration mark nears
8.8.2022
As the Ethereum Name Service edges closer to 2 million domain registrations, its founder reflects on the parallels with the internet’s Domain Name Service
How to Inject a Global with Web Extensions in Manifest V3
8.8.2022
For those of you not familiar with the world of web extension development, a storm is brewing with Chrome. Google will stop support for manifest version 2, which is what the vast majority of web extensions use. Manifest version 3 sees many changes but the largest change is moving from persistent...
IRS Expands Crypto Question on Tax Form
5.8.2022
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has modified the crypto question asked on Form 1040, the tax form used by all U.S. taxpayers to file an annual income tax return. New Crypto Tax Question The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published a draft of Form 1040 for the 2022 tax year last week. Form 1040...
ENS Domain Registrations Skyrocketed Last Month, Total Names Created Nears 2 Million
4.8.2022
The number of Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domains is nearing the two million mark as 1,888,209 ENS names have been etched into the Ethereum blockchain to date. The project recently detailed that July saw the largest monthly rise in revenue scoring 5,400 ether worth roughly $2.48 million during...
FitR to Complete INO and IDO on NFTb Using Its DeFi as a Service
3.8.2022
FitR, a Web3 lifestyle app promoting healthy and active living, has chosen to complete an INO and IDO with the help of NFTb’s DeFi as a Service. It is indeed an announcement worthy of making, and NFTb has done just that. To properly understand what exactly is in the offing for all health-conscious...
Tax Agency Vows to Go Hard After Koreans Using Crypto to Evade Levies
3.8.2022
South Korea’s tax administration has pledged to take strict measures against tax evasion through virtual assets and platforms. While the Korean government is yet to start taxing capital gains resulting from crypto investment and trading, authorities in Seoul claim cryptocurrencies have been...
Bitwage Partners With Edge Wallet and Casa to Streamline Bitcoin Payroll Services to Mainstream Audiences
1.8.2022
The cryptocurrency payroll service Bitwage announced on Monday that the company has partnered with the digital currency wallets Casa and Edge Wallet in order to “bring bitcoin payroll to mainstream audiences.” Now Edge Wallet and Casa users can connect to the Bitwage platform’s...
Non Custodial Crypto Exchange Changeangel Adds Cashback and Affiliate Programs
30.7.2022
PRESS RELEASE. July 30, 2022 – Changeangel.io is making its crypto exchange service more attractive to current and prospective users by adding convenient and lucrative Cashback and Affiliate program. Created by cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and developers, Changeangel.io is a quick and...