Tag: cryptocurrency
He Trained Crypto Cops to Fight Crypto Crime—and Allegedly Ran a...
The message explained that Incognito was now essentially blackmailing its former users: It had stored their messages and transaction records, it said, and added...
Craig Wright Lied About Creating Bitcoin And Faked Evidence, Judge Rules
“We’ve seen a cascading effect from the pronouncement on a host of other litigations globally,” says Grewal. “For people outside of crypto, might...
Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2 Billion of Crypto
A panel of judges in the Netherlands has found Alexey Pertsev, one of the developers behind crypto anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, guilty of money...
The $2.3 Billion Tornado Cash Case Is a Pivotal Moment for...
In the conclusion of that same statement to the court, they point out that under Dutch law the maximum prison sentence for money laundering...
Time Is Running Out in the Hunt for Rare Bitcoin
When the Ordinals system was first released, it divided bitcoiners. Inscriptions were a near-instant hit, but some felt they were a bastardization of bitcoin’s...
FTX Creditors Say Payout Deal Is ‘an Insult’—and Plan to Revolt
Some creditors of the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX are preparing to reject a plan that would see them recover 118 percent of the money...
Ethereum’s Cofounder Says SEC Is ‘Gaslighting’ Everyone About Crypto
Joe Lubin is in a fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Not only is the financial regulator waging war against Ethereum, he claims,...
A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for...
As a test of their resulting AI tool, the researchers checked its outputs with one cryptocurrency exchange—which the paper doesn't name—identifying 52 suspicious...
Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison
Changpeng Zhao, founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been sentenced to four months in prison.Judge Richard Jones, who presided over...
Bitcoin Miners Brace for the ‘Halving’—and Race to Cash In
By the end of Friday, the size of the reward for mining bitcoin will have been cut in half. The eventâknown as the...
