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Decentralized Finance Crypto Exchange Uniswap Starts Blocking Addresses Linked To ‘Blocked Activities’
26.4.2022
Uniswap, one of the main decentralized finance exchanges in the cryptocurrency world, is now taking measures to ensure illegal funds cannot be transacted using its platform. The company has already started blocking addresses linked to “blocked activities” and will apply a filter with...
The History of Cash-Like Digital Payment Instruments
25.4.2022
How and why those original digital payments projects are no longer with us today can give us an idea of what needs to be done to do it right
US Treasury’s OFAC Adds 3 ETH Addresses Linked to North Korean Cybercrime Group to SDN List
24.4.2022
The Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has added three ethereum addresses to its Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List (SDN). OFAC alleges the ether addresses are controlled by the Lazarus Group, a cybercrime group that is associated with North Korea. Lazarus Group Behind Axie...
Ukrainian Central Bank’s ‘Quasi-Cash Transaction’ Restrictions Could Affect Crypto Users
22.4.2022
Ukraine’s central bank, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), has placed additional restrictions on its citizens’ cross-border money and asset transfers, a measure that will affect crypto transactions....
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Lazarus Gets Banned by Tornado Cash for Hacking $600 Million From Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge
19.4.2022
Tornado Cash is a decentralized protocol that allows users to have a private Ethereum transaction on the network. Tornado Cash breaks the on-chain link between the source address and the destination address to keep transactions private. A smart contract is deployed to execute the private...
Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments Jump Over 400%, 80M Users Have Access to Lightning
18.4.2022
As the usage of the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network is growing rapidly, now more than 80m users are estimated to have access to this network, compared with 100,000 users last summer, a new report from Arcane Research has found.
The main driver of growth for the Lightning Network this year...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, XRP, LINK, BCH, FIL
17.4.2022
Technical charts indicate that Bitcoin, XRP, LINK, BCH and FIL may be on the verge of a sharp breakout, but traders are unsure of the direction
ETH Mixer Tornado Cash Reveals Blocking OFAC Sanctioned Ethereum Addresses via Chainalysis Oracle Contract
16.4.2022
According to the project’s official Twitter account, Tornado Cash, the ethereum mixing service that allows participants to shuffle ether, is blocking flagged ethereum addresses listed on the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons...
Tornado Cash says it's using Chainalysis oracles to block access from OPAC sanctioned addresses
15.4.2022
Many DeFi exploits in the past have been linked to the popular crypto-mixing protocol
Tornado Cash Adds Chainalysis Tool for Blocking OFAC-Sanctioned Wallets From Dapp
15.4.2022
The blockade only applies to the Tornado Cash front-end, not the underlying smart contract, one of the protocol's founders later tweeted
Fitting the bill: US Congress eyes e-cash as an alternative to CBDC
15.4.2022
From fiat banknotes to fractional reserve banking, the notion of what constitutes money in the U.S. has changed over time. But is the time right for e-cash?
NumisMe: Crypto’s First Cash Protocol – Pay With Cash and Receive Change Back Electronically
15.4.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Eugene, Oregon April 15th, 2022: If there was ever a universal truth to which we could all agree, it would be change. An unequivocal reality of the cosmos, change is constant. Despite emotions, thoughts, or actions, change is an unstoppable force for which there is no immovable...
Cash App and Chivo help drive Lightning payment volume up 400%
14.4.2022
Bitcoin’s layer 2 scaling solution, the Lightning Network, has seen payment volume increase by over 400% as real adoption grows
Biggest Movers: WAVES Falls to 1-Month Low, BCH Over 10% Higher on Wednesday
13.4.2022
WAVES fell to a one-month low during Wednesday’s trading session, as prices dropped for a second consecutive session. This came as BCH rallied by over 10% on hump-day, hitting a five-day high in the process. Overall, the crypto market cap is 1.17% higher as of writing. Bitcoin Cash (BCH)...
PolySign to Buy Digital Asset Fund Administrator MG Stover for Cash and Stock
13.4.2022
MG Stover administers over $40 billion in digital assets for institutional clients such as hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds
Ronin Exploiter Moved 21,000 Ether to Tornado Cash in Past Week
13.4.2022
The stash is worth over $65 million at the time of writing
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest dumps PayPal favoring Bitcoin-friendly Cash App
11.4.2022
Wood believes that Venmo is merely a follower of Cash App, which has generated more than double Venmo’s revenue from almost half the number of users
Derivatives Exchange Giant CME Group Adds 11 New Cryptocurrency Reference Rates
9.4.2022
Global markets company and Chicago-based derivatives exchange CME Group plans to launch 11 new reference rates tied to specific crypto assets. The reference rates and real-time indices bolstered by CF Benchmarks are typically leveraged by exchange-traded products and other investment vehicles....
250 Bitcoin From 2009 Moved After 12.4 Years — Rare BTC Mined Over a 2-Day Span
8.4.2022
On April 7th and 8th, 2022, approximately five bitcoin block rewards mined in 2009 were spent in a concession of transfers. The last time a 2009 block was spent was 1.10 years ago on May 20, 2020. The 250 bitcoin from the latest 2009 spends sat idle for 12.4 years, and the coins were worth […]
Cash App users can now invest paychecks into Bitcoin
7.4.2022
The Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami set the stage for the announcement followed by a panel with athletes Serena Williams, Odell Beckham Jr. and Aaron Rodgers