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US Financial Watchdog Fines Bitcoin Mixer Service for $60 Million
20.10.2020
Larry Dean Harmon, founder and operator of early bitcoin mixing services Helix and Coin Ninja, is being fined $60 million by the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Fincen) for allegedly violating anti-money laundering rules. According to documents published Oct. 19...
New Zealand has no imminent plans to issue CBDC, says central bank exec
20.10.2020
Important questions about CBDCs remain unanswered for the Kiwi's central bank
Cashfusion Use Increased by 328%, $200M in BCH Fused and Close to 20,000 Fusions
18.10.2020
Cashfusion, the privacy-enhancing solution for the Bitcoin Cash network is nearing its one-year anniversary and during the last four months, fusions have increased by 328.93%. The protocol recently completed a security audit and fusions are nearing 20k with close to $200 million worth of bitcoin...
$22M in Bitcoin moves from Huobi to OKEx despite withdrawal freeze
16.10.2020
Someone is pouring Bitcoin to OKEx despite the exchange having suspended withdrawals
Bankless society ‘inevitable’ due to crypto, says Morgan Creek CEO
15.10.2020
People will be able to “bank themselves” with crypto
Starbucks and McDonald’s reportedly not testing China’s digital yuan
14.10.2020
Starbucks and McDonald’s are reportedly not part of the 3,000 merchants piloting China’s CBDC
Bank of Russia issues consultation paper on digital ruble
13.10.2020
Russia’s central bank says that the digital ruble can be an “additional form of money alongside cash and non-cash.”
Hacker from the 2016 Bitfinex Breach Transfers $21M Worth of Bitcoin to Unknown Wallets
8.10.2020
On Wednesday morning (ET), around 2,034 BTC ($21.6 million) from the 2016 Bitfinex hack moved into a few unknown wallets. The action was caught by the Btcparser program as five transactions with around 400 BTC each moved for the first time in four years. On August 2, 2016, the popular digital...
Bitfinex hackers move another $30M in stolen Bitcoin from 2016
8.10.2020
The Bitfinex hackers have moved thousands of Bitcoins in 2020
AVALANCHE of Transactions in Sight
8.10.2020
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China’s Digital Currency Has Been Used in 3 Million Transactions Worth Over a Billion Yuan So Far
8.10.2020
China’s central bank digital currency has been used in 3.13 million transactions worth about 1.1 billion yuan ($162 million) so far, the People’s Bank of China’s deputy governor has reportedly revealed. In addition, more than 122,000 digital wallets have been created....
BlueWallet Adds Privacy Feature ‘PayJoin’ for Bitcoin Transactions
7.10.2020
Mobile and desktop Bitcoin and Lightning wallet BlueWallet has added support for BIP 78 with its PayJoin feature
Kyrgyzstan’s central bank suspends SWIFT to prevent capital outflow
7.10.2020
The bank is shutting down the SWIFT network as protests rocked the country
A Solution To the Blockchain Scalability Problem – Meet Jax.Network
6.10.2020
Being the next step in the evolution of human civilization, blockchain technology still hasn’t been mass-adopted. The biggest obstacle here is a limited transaction processing capacity. Existing blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum are only able to do about 7-10 transactions per second. This...
This country accepts more retail crypto transactions than anywhere else in Latin America
5.10.2020
Venezuela may have the most crypto volume, but this country bests all of Latin America when it comes to retail crypto transactions
Chainalysis and Integra Win $1.25 Million IRS Contract to Break Monero
2.10.2020
Crypto intelligence firm Chainalysis and data forensics company Integra Fec have won a combined $1.25 million contract to provide tools that break the privacy-focused coin, monero, for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Floated early September, the one-year contract specifically covers...
KuCoin hackers keep moving stolen tokens to the largest DeFi exchange
28.9.2020
Are the KuCoin hackers DeFi noobs?
EY releases new tool for analyzing Bitcoin transactions and on-chain data
28.9.2020
EY has added a new solution to its Blockchain Analyzer product suite
Ethereum still not ready for DeFi, say some critics
27.9.2020
Ethereum needs to fix its problems
Crypto Exchange Binance Blacklisted by Russia’s Telecom Censorship Agency
26.9.2020
Russia’s telecom regulator Roskomnadzor has added Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, to the list of blacklisted websites in the country. The exchange was blacklisted on June 2, 2020, but Binance became aware of this only on September 24th, after receiving communication from...