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Binance Bans Accounts Tied To Russian Gov’t Officials’ Relatives – Will It Hurt Them?
Crypto asset exchange of digital assets Binance has suspended accounts with ties to Russian government officials’ relatives. Faced with escalating international sanctions in response to Russia’s invas...
Binance blocks crypto accounts of relatives tied to the Russian government
The Binance cryptocurrency exchange is adopting more measures to prevent the Russian government from mitigating the impact of sanctions through the use of crypto. Binance has shut down several account...
Lazarus Tied to Axie Infinity Crypto Theft in March
Not long ago, Live Bitcoin News put out an article discussing the hacking of gaming network Axie Infinity, which ultimately resulted in more than $600 million in digital currency funds being stolen ov...
OFAC sanctions three more Ethereum addresses tied to $600 million Ronin attack
The US government is continuing to issue sanctions tied to last month’s headline-generating attack on Axie Infinity’s Ronin sidechain, which resulted in the theft of more than $600 million...
Treasury Sanctions Additional North Korean Wallets Tied to Ronin Hack
Key Takeaways The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned three North Korean crypto addresses. Those addresses are tied to Lazarus Group, which carried out a $551 ...
Airbnb Bans Guest Who Booked Pittsburgh Rental Tied To Deadly Shooting
Topline Following a shooting at a Pittsburgh house party that left two minors dead early Sunday morning, Airbnb banned the guest who rented the property, pointing to its 2020 decision to ban parties f...
Federal prosecutors forfeit $34 million in crypto tied to dark web activities
The publicly-traded company MicroStrategy has acquired an additional 4,167 BTC worth around $190.5 million, according to an April 5 filing with the SEC. MicroStrategy acquired the new holdings at an a...
Recession fears tied to yields are overblown, Canaccord’s Tony Dwyer
Wall Street may be overestimating recession risks. While investors focus on an unnerving inversion between the five-year and 30-year Treasury Note yields, Canaccord Genuity’s Tony Dwyer is conce...
Morgan Stanley Replaces Executive Tied to Block-Trade Probe
(Bloomberg) — Morgan Stanley tapped Arnaud Blanchard to replace Pawan Passi, the executive put on leave amid a sweeping U.S. probe into how Wall Street handles big stock trades. Most Read from B...
BAYC tied ApeCoin Makes Debut
Crypto token ApeCoin ($APE) was unveiled in the official Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) Twitter account, which detailed initiatives planned by creator Yuga Labs. The initiative also included a planned to...
Elliptic Identifies ‘Several Hundred Thousand Crypto Addresses’ Tied to Russia-Based Sanctioned Actors – Bitcoin News
As the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues, blockchain surveillance companies have discussed and implemented ways to combat sanctioned countries from using digital assets. Last week, Chainalysis reveale...
‘ApeCoin’ tied to Bored Ape NFT ecosystem debuts with planned community airdrop
A long-rumored crypto token tied to the Bored Ape NFT community was unveiled on Wednesday. The debut of ApeCoin ($APE), detailed in a Twitter thread from the official Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) accou...
Blockchain Forensics Firm Uncovers 15 Million Crypto Addresses Tied To Sanctioned Russians
A crypto forensics firm announced the discovery of information on a digital wallet believed to be associated with Russian oligarchs and sanctioned officials. Tom Robinson, co-founder of Elliptic, disc...
Bitcoin mixing service CoinJoin starts blacklisting BTC tied to illegal activity
Bitcoin mixing service CoinJoin has started blacklisting bitcoin tied to illegal activity in a move derided by some advocates of crypto privacy. CoinJoin, a bitcoin mixing service that’s part of the p...
Coinbase Blacklists Over 25,000 Crypto Addresses Tied to Russian Individuals and Entities – Regulation Bitcoin News
The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has addressed the company’s procedures toward complying with sanctions in a blog post published on Sunday. The crypto firm says that respecting sanctions plays a “...
Israeli Officials Seize Cryptocurrency Accounts Tied To Hamas
During first 2 months of 2022, followers of the Freedom Convoy in Canada and Ukraine’s anti-Russian opposition party collected millions of dollars in crypto donations. Following a request from t...
Venezuelan Devs Were Jailed for Hacking Exchange Tied to Controversial Petro. Blockchain Data Cleared Them
The Venezuelan court agreed to take a look at CipherBlade’s report. Based on the investigation’s findings, in January 2021, over a month after the developer duo were detained, the court granted Mendoz...
Coinbase ‘Will Not Institute a Blanket Ban’ on All Transactions Tied to Russian Crypto Addresses – Coinotizia
The popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has addressed the request from Ukrainian officials to freeze the accounts of all Russian users. A Coinbase spokesperson noted that the digital currency pla...
Russian-backed investment fund tied to influential U.S. corporate consulting firm
An investment fund backed by Russian oligarchs that have been sanctioned by the European Union following the invasion of Ukraine has ties to Teneo, an influential corporate advisory firm based in the ...
Coinbase ‘Will Not Institute a Blanket Ban’ on All Transactions Tied to Russian Crypto Addresses – Bitcoin News
The popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has addressed the request from Ukrainian officials to freeze the accounts of all Russian users. A Coinbase spokesperson noted that the digital currency pla...
Ukraine Receives $4 Million In Crypto Donations Within Hours—Including $1.9 Million Tied To Julian Assange NFT Auction
Topline More than $4 million worth of cryptocurrency donations poured in for Ukraine on Saturday hours after Ukrainian officials took to Twitter to plead for help in the fight against a Russian invasi...
Canadian Police Begin Unfreezing Accounts Tied to Freedom Convoy as Trudeau Revokes Emergencies Act – Coinotizia
Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has ended the use of the Emergencies Act invoked last week to deal with the Freedom Convoy trucker protest. The Canadian police have also instructed financial ...
Canadian Police Begin Unfreezing Accounts Tied to Freedom Convoy as Trudeau Revokes Emergencies Act – Featured Bitcoin News
Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has ended the use of the Emergencies Act invoked last week to deal with the Freedom Convoy trucker protest. The Canadian police have also instructed financial ...
‘Frozen’ Bitcoin Tied to Canadian Protests Lands at Coinbase, Crypto.Com
On Feb. 16, Tim Pastoor, a digital identity researcher in the Netherlands, tweeted a video of a person coming up to a truck and handing a large paper envelope to the driver, saying it contained “some ...
Canada Sanctions 34 Crypto Wallets Tied to Trucker ‘Freedom Convoy’
As part of the Emergencies Act, Canada is broadening the scope the country’s anti-money laundering/anti-terrorist financing rules, which will now include crowdfunding platforms and the payment s...
Canadian Police Freeze Crypto Wallets Tied to Freedom Convoy Protests — Vow to Take Back Ottawa in Entirety – Featured Bitcoin News
Canada’s national police have sent letters to cryptocurrency exchanges asking them to freeze at least 34 crypto addresses allegedly connected to the Freedom Convoy protests under the Emergencies Act r...
Canadian Police Tell Exchanges to Halt Bitcoin and Ethereum Trades Tied to Trucker Blockades
In brief Canada’s leading newspaper says the RCMP has sent letters to crypto exchanges. The RCMP campaign is part of actions to end the trucker blockades. Two of Canada’s biggest law enfor...
Canada Bans 34 Crypto Wallets Tied to Freedom Convoy
Key Takeaways Canadian police authorities have issued an order that blacklists several crypto wallets linked to the Freedom Convoy. There are reportedly 34 cryptocurrency wallets on the list containin...
Canadian federal police seek blockade of crypto wallets tied to ‘Freedom Convoy’
Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police appear to be targeting crypto addresses funding the “Freedom Convoy” protests over vaccine mandates for truckers. On February 16, several repo...
US government seizes $3.6 billion in bitcoin tied to 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex
advertisement The US Department of Justice said Tuesday that it has seized $3.6 billion worth of bitcoin tied to the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex. Two individuals, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heat...