Leading crypto exchange Coinbase has asked for support as it attempts to stop an upscale in surveillance and a potentially harmful change in regulation for Europe-based users. In a vote expected to ta...
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Privacy Infrastructure Startup Nym Hires Prominent Surveillance Tech Expert & Law Professor
Blockchain privacy startup Nym Technologies is boosting its backroom team with the addition of Ahmed Ghappour, a renowned attorney and professor of law, as its new General Counsel. Ghappour is one of ...
US shouldn’t compete with China’s CBDC using surveillance tools
Jake Chervinsky, head of policy at crypto advocacy group the Blockchain Association, said the United States should be careful to avoid a “totalitarian nightmare” in its potential launch of a central b...
Surveillance Firm Chainalysis Provides Free Tool To Detect Sanctioned Wallets
What is the Chainalysis oracle? A free tool that allows anyone to validate “if a cryptocurrency wallet address has been included in a sanctions designation.” Pretty handy, considering all the cancelin...
Bank of Spain requests crypto surveillance after the increase in crypto adoption
TL;DR Breakdown • BdE Governor Pablo Hernández talks about the cryptos volatility.• Hernández shows his concern about El Salvador’s decisions with cryptos. Recently, the Bank of Spain Governor has dem...
Bank of Spain Governor Calls for Crypto Surveillance
Governor of the Bank of Spain Pablo Hernandez de Cos has called for more intense surveillance of the crypto industry. In doing so, the governor laid out a series of risks he perceives to be present i...
Is Canada planning to make the financial surveillance act permanent?
The financial surveillance resulting from the Emergencies Act may become a permanent fixture of Canadian society. Reports emanating from the country state that the government is considering making th...
Surveillance Firm Launches Launches Push Towards Crypto Market Safety With 16 Other Industry Leaders
New York-based crypto surveillance firm Solidus Labs is teaming up with leading digital asset exchanges, trading firms and industry associations to launch a new crypto market safety initiative. In a s...
China’s Digital Currency Could Subvert US Sanctions, Enhance Surveillance Capabilities – Regulation Bitcoin News
A U.S. senator has warned about China’s central bank digital currency. “Analysts have raised the eCNY’s potential to subvert U.S. sanctions, facilitate illicit money flows, enhance China’s surveillanc...
Erik Voorhees: Central Bank Digital Currencies Are ‘Orwellian Spy Surveillance Nightmare’
Erik Voorhees is many things: Bitcoin O.G., outspoken libertarian, and founder of the crypto exchange company-turned-DAO ShapeShift. He also hates the concept of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs...
Crypto advocates sound alarm on America COMPETES bill over new financial surveillance provisions
On Tuesday night, Democrats of the House of Representatives released their draft language for the America COMPETES Act, a bill that aims to bolster the US in its global rivalry with China. The Biden ...
Tucked Inside Biden Infrastructure Bill: Unconstitutional Crypto Surveillance
Before U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law in November, many groups spoke out against a provision that broadens the tax code’s definition of “broker.” B...
Bukele Draws Backlash for Alleged Surveillance Tactics
Key Takeaways Reports emerged this week that the government of El Salvador may be surveilling journalists using the spyware “Pegasus.” Crypto community members are now criticizing this and...
FINRA Fines E*TRADE $350K for Surveillance Failures
Electronic trading platform E*TRADE, a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, has been slapped with a $350,000 fine, along with a censure order, by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for failu...