Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Bitcoin of America, a Bitcoin technology firm, along with three of its executives, has been indicted for allegedly operating more than 50 unlicensed crypto kiosks in Ohio that knowingly benefited from victims of cryptocurrency scams. The firm is faci...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Digital asset investment firms invested $2.7 billion in decentralized finance (DeFi) projects in 2022, marking a 190% increase from the previous year, while investments into centralized finance (CeFi) projects dropped by 73% to $4.3 billion. Despite...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Utah State Legislature passed the Utah DAO Act, granting DAOs legal recognition and limited liability protections. The Utah State Legislature passed Act HB 357, th...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms lost at least $21 million in February due to a series of exploits including flash loan reentrancy attacks, price oracle attacks, and other hacks across seven protocols. Noteworthy incidents included the reentran...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Yuga Labs has come under fire from the cryptocurrency community for its plan to auction its new Bitcoin NFT collection. The company's plan requires participants to send their entire bid amount in Bitcoin to a unique BTC address controlled by Yuga, an...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The Pakistan Banks’ Association has signed a contract to develop Pakistan’s first blockchain-based national eKYC banking platform aimed at strengthening anti-money laundering capabilities while countering terror financing. The blockchain platform wil...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Iran's central bank has completed a pre-pilot phase for its digital rial, according to an official statement by the Monetary and Banking Research Institute. The CBDC will align with the rules governing the national currency, the Iranian rial, and be...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Singaporean police have launched an investigation into Terraform Labs, the company co-founded by Do Kwon, who was accused of fraud by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month. The SEC has alleged that Kwon laundered over $100m worth...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit is launching a new debit card that will allow users to make payments and withdraw cash using their cryptocurrency holdings. The card will work with Bitcoin, Ether, Tether, USD Coin, and XRP balances on user accounts and...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has turned to alternative stablecoins such as TrueUSD (TUSD) and decentralized stablecoins, following a regulatory action against its native stablecoin, Binance USD (BUSD), by the US Sec...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Babel Finance is considering a new restructuring opportunity that involves the creation of a new decentralized finance (DeFi) project called Hope. This project aims to generate revenue to repay debts owed to creditors, and will mint a new stablecoin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Argo’s daily Bitcoin production rate in February surged 7% despite a 10% month-over-month increase in average network difficulty. Publicly-listed Bitcoin (BTC) mining...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
<p>Argo Blockchain (NASDAQ:ARBK, LSE:ARB), a publicly-listed <a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/terms/c/crypto-mining/" class="terms__main-term" id="b7de0d78-81b9-460d-b33d-311d7d0dff0e" target="_blan...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 2 years ago
Yuga Labs has concluded its first inaugural Bitcoin Ordinal NFT collection auction. The collection comprises a limited edition of 300 generative pieces inscribed on Satoshis on the BTC network. The auction brought in $16.5 million for the firm in 24...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Crypto exchange Algodex and wallet provider MyAlgo have suffered security breaches in the last few weeks. Algorand-based wallet provider MyAlgo has again urged users t...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
<p>The US <a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/terms/s/securities-and-exchange-commission-sec/" class="terms__main-term" id="3718b4df-fc5f-479a-861e-f52759439c15" target="_blank">Securities and...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission claims the transactions involved with redistributing the funds to impacted Voyager account holders will trigger U.S. securities laws....
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The hacker has other associated wallets that have also shifted funds to privacy networks such as Aztec. One of the wallets associated with the $50 million exploit of...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-ceo-hints-its-new-layer-2-network-could-include-aml-measures Is this for real??? While I was really excited earlier by this Layer 2 announcement, this AML stuff leaves a sour taste in the mouth! He says that it...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
During a speech at a banking conference in DC, acting comptroller Michael Hsu cited FTX an example of why a “consolidated home country supervisor” is needed. Cryptocur...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf has fired up a new “behind the meter” mining facility powered by 100% nuclear power in Pennsylvania. United States-based Bitcoin minin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The spokeswoman said that she wouldn’t be commenting specifically on Silvergate, but the White House will be actively monitoring the situation with the crypto bank. Th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The spokeswoman said that she wouldn’t be commenting specifically on Silvergate, but the White House will be actively monitoring the situation with the crypto bank. Th...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Soleimani explained that the “critical flaw” with Tornado Cash is that users cannot prove that they’re not associated with a criminal enterprise stealing or laundering crypto funds....
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The highest of the 288 bidders forked out just over 7 BTC for one of the 288 Bitcoin Ordinals-based NFTs up for auction. The auction for Yuga Labs’ inaugural Bitcoin O...
