On Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department added Ethereum coin mixer Tornado Cash, and a slew of addresses associated with the service, to its Specially Designated Nationals list—a classification typical...
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Crypto markets still have an ‘opacity’ problem says CoinShares CEO
Episode 75 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and CoinShares Co-Founder and CEO Jean-Marie Mognetti. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple...
Tornado Cash Is Banned By US Government With Money Laundering On The Rise
The U.S. Department of Treasury has listed Tornado Cash on the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) and prohibited American persons from using the service. Sanction violati...
SpaceX Misses Out On $888.5 Million Government Subsidy For Starlink
Topline The Federal Communications Commission has denied SpaceX’s application to receive $888.5 million in funding to bring its Starlink satellite broadband internet service to rural areas, the agency...
As Government Takes on the Tornado Mixer, It May Reap a Whirlwind
Tornado Cash, then, is a network of peer-to-peer channels, rather than a discrete company, entity or service. So while the sanctioning document targets Tornado Cash by name, and lays out a series of s...
China: Government declares war on crypto accounts
The Government of China, through the aforementioned body, also checked 500 websites on the crypto theme, closing 105 which, according to the CAC (Cyberspace Administration of China), feed speculative ...
Ex-Twitter Employee Convicted Of Sending Private Data To Saudi Government
Topline A former Twitter employee was convicted in federal court Tuesday for giving the government of Saudi Arabia information about regime critics’ social media accounts, according to multiple news o...
Crypto Leaders Condemned The U.S Government on ‘Tornado Cash’ Takedown
The U.S Government has slammed the crypto community with ‘Tornado Cash’ takedown. Leaders have slammed the tyranny of the US government slamming Tornado Cash. The news headline is making a stir in the...
Retail Executives Remain Silent As Government Gains More Control Over Fashion Industry
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – SEPTEMBER 27: OLYMPISCHE SPIELE SYDNEY 2000, Sydney; FINALE/MAENNER/USA – KUBA … [+] (USA – CUB) 4:0; GOLD fuer USA, JUBEL Todd WILLIAMS (29/mitte) (Photo b...
US Government Amps Up Inevitable Clash With Crypto Privacy in Tornado Cash Blacklisting
Step by step, bank overseers have widened their enforcement territory to include digital assets. In one sense, crypto was their dream financial system, with the path of most transactions auditable on ...
Ethereum-Based Mixer Tornado Cash Sanctioned by U.S. Government
Alex Dovbnya The action has prohibited U.S. investors from interacting with the controversial service Popular Ethereum-based coin mixing service Tornado Cash has been sanctioned by the U.S. Department...
UK group set sights on redressing government approach to crypto
The United Kingdom’s All Party Parliament Group (APPG) has initiated a scrutinization of the country’s stance on crypto regulation. As announced, the investigation aims to gather feedback on the UK go...
“It’s Going to Be Government Money”
Arman Shirinyan Old-school investor does not believe in cryptocurrency’s safety, says government will take it all In his most recent interview with Michelle Jamrisko, Bloomberg’s Senior As...
North Koreans Allegedly Using Fake Resumes to Steal Crypto For The Government
– Advertisement – Fake IDs and Resumes Used to Launder Cryptocurrency by People Allegedly Working For The North Korean Government. Bloomberg reports that according to interviews with cyb...
Apple And Google Questioned by The Government Regarding Crypto Scams
Senator Sherrod Brown decided to question the CEOs of the biggest tech companies in the world– Google and Apple. Senator stated that there are millions of Americans who are using mobile applications f...
The Return Of StubHub
View of the company logo and office entrance for online ticket exchange company StubHub (Photo by … [+] Interim Archives/Getty Images) Getty Images StubHub will long be a business school case st...
Chainalysis Government Solutions: Chainalysis’ Subsidiary Focussed On Investigating Crypto Crimes
Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics firm, has launched its subsidiary dubbed Chainalysis Government Solutions. Its major focus will be to investigate crimes related to crypto. The latest research of t...
Is Coinbase Allowing the Government to Track Users?
Popular digital currency exchange Coinbase is in hot water after executives were accused of selling users’ private data to ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement). Coinbase Accused of Selling Priva...
Fate of stablecoin bill in doubt as House Financial Services Committee misses key deadline
The much talked-about but never resolved stablecoin bill still is not ready to see the light. With this Congress coming to a close and August recess beginning in days, the bill’s odds of becomin...
Don’t Let Federal Government Enforce State Abortion Bans
Topline Attorneys from 15 major cities and localities—including New York and Chicago—urged the Biden Administration on Thursday to ensure federal agencies won’t help enforce state-level abortion bans,...
Pantera’s general counsel joins CFTC staff as commission work recenters around crypto
A former legal leader from the crypto world is joining the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). On July 26, CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero announced that she has hired Joseph Cise...
CCI Is Making Its Leadership Team, With Government Insiders –
The Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) is welcoming government insiders into its leadership team. The two big names that emerged from the CCI announcement are Linda Jeng and Brett Quick. CCI’s New Me...
Ukraine government supports the use of crypto in military activities
The Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation in Ukraine, Alex Bornyakov, has reassured Ukraine’s commitment to cryptocurrencies. Bornyakov said that crypto donations were strategic to the efforts mad...
Chainalysis Courts US Government With New ‘Solutions’ Subsidiary
“Chainalysis has charting capabilities that have been used to show investigators how bitcoin transactions are conducted and how they can be used as a tool to identify targets, the bitcoin exchanges th...
A new Senate bill would bill exempt small crypto from capital gains taxes
A new bill that would exempt small crypto transactions from capital gains taxes has entered the Senate. According to an announcement shared with The Block, Senators Pat Toomey and Kyrsten Sinema have ...
Lawmakers race to release draft of stablecoin bill ahead of August recess
US House of Representatives lawmakers could introduce draft text of a stablecoin bill as early as this week, a last-ditch effort to keep regulation front-of-mind ahead of the August recess. Lawmakers...
US GOVERNMENT REDEFINES THE MEANING OF RECESSION –
Recently, the U.S. government has redefined the actual meaning of recession. The precautionary step has been taken to prevent the economy from falling into recession. According to the Council of Eco...