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* The Bank of Russia and the country’s Ministry of Finance have reconsidered their positions toward cryptocurrency, acknowledging it to be necessary to legalize the use of cryptocurrencies in cross-border settlements, per a report by local news outlet TASS. * The move comes as Russia dabbles on how to best regulate
Research
Table of Contents 1. Overflow 2. Chaincase Closed 3. The Fog of Analysis 4. OFAC Sanctions Tornado Cash OVERFLOW This section is for stories that would have been included for the months of May, June, and July: * Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2022 * ZK-Rollup Research Fellowship Update * JoinMarket Adds Onion-Based
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* disclosures included names, contact information and financial information about income https://www.marketwatch.com/story/irs-says-it-exposed-some-confidential-taxpayer-data-on-website-11662148381 archive: https://archive.ph/v4B1X
Releases
New Features: * Reproducible builds #1055 Enhancements: * Android: Update mascot splash images #1057 Bug Fixes: * Google Play: Don't require users to have NFC to install #1047 * Fix display of Mortal sponsors #1058 iOS TestFlight Android APK Android APK Signature Android APK Clearsign Signature PGP Key https://github.com/ZeusLN/
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* The Indian agency overseeing computer security will soon require VPN operators in India to collect information such as customer’s names, email addresses and the IP addresses they use to connect to the internet. Providers must maintain the data for at least five years and furnish the information to authorities
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* Bitcoin mining possesses a combination of properties that makes it a uniquely flexible energy consumer. This flexibility allows bitcoin miners to provide positive externalities to various energy systems globally, including strengthening vulnerable electricity grids, improving the economics of renewable energy, mitigating natural gas flaring, and lowering heating costs by repurposing
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* Police have used “Fog Reveal” to search hundreds of billions of records from 250 million mobile devices, and harnessed the data to create location analyses known among law enforcement as “patterns of life.” * Sold by Virginia-based Fog Data Science LLC, Fog Reveal has been used since at least 2018 in
Weekly Digest
Important news of the week without the bullshit.
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* Today, we’re suing Michael Saylor - a billionaire tech executive who has lived in the District for more than a decade but has never paid any DC income taxes - for tax fraud. * We’re also suing his company, MicroStrategy, for conspiring to help him evade taxes he legally
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* Can be accessed via the hosted mempool.space instance or self hosted using your own node. https://mempool.space/lightning
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https://mempool.space/mining
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* Wallet label export format: Craig Raw posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a proposed BIP to standardize the format wallets use to export labels for their addresses and transactions. A standardized export format could in theory allow two pieces of wallet software that used the same BIP32 account hierarchy to
