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83 BTC Fee Transaction Was a Cold Wallet Hack
Pseudonymous Bitcoin user lost 139 BTC in what appears to be an automated cold wallet hack with an odd fee calculation mechanism.
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Eligius Pool Relaunched As OCEAN Pool, Raises $6.2M in Seed Funding
The seed funding will support the launch of OCEAN Pool - a non-custodial Bitcoin mining pool where miners are paid directly by the Bitcoin network. The pool also offers complete transparency into its operations, particularly in the areas of block template creation and reward distribution.
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Livestream: The Future of Bitcoin Mining Conference
Ocean, a stealth Bitcoin startup, is hosting a one-day event in South Carolina today.
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Nodeless.io Shuts Down Due to Investigation for Running 'Illegal Money Transmission' Business in Canada
Nodeless is an open-source and no-KYC payment router that makes it easy to accept bitcoin payments to self-custody through its API.
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Wallet of Satoshi to Stop Serving Customers in the United States
"We've made the difficult decision to remove our app from the U.S. Apple and Google app stores, and will not serve U.S. customers going forward," announced Wallet of Satoshi.
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Spiral Renewed Grants to Ruben Somsen and WalletScrutiny
Spiral, an independent, bitcoin-focused entity within the Block ecosystem of companies, announced two grant renewals and published its quarterly report.
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83 BTC Transaction Fee Sets a New Record in Fiat Terms
An unknown entity set a new Bitcoin transaction fee record in fiat terms today, effectively paying over $3.1 million for a single Bitcoin transaction.
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Apple Deactivates Zeus Developer Account Following Antitrust Lawsuit by Cash App & Venmo Users
Zeus wallet is still available for download on the App Store and iOS TestFlight but developer is (likely temporarily) unable to push software updates.
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F2Pool Disables Transaction Filtering Patch (For Now)
After a series of erratic posts, F2Pool's co-founder, Chun, admitted that F2Pool had been involved in transaction censoring and stated that the filtering patch has been disabled for now.
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CZ Pleads Guilty, Steps Down as CEO of Binance in $4.3 Billion Settlement with DOJ
The Wall Street Journal reported that Zhao plans to step down and plead guilty to violating U.S. money laundering requirements.
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F2Pool Is Likely Filtering OFAC-Sanctioned Transactions - Report
"I conclude that the reports from miningpool-observer indicating sanctioned transactions missing from blocks by ViaBTC and Foundry are likely false-positives and not the result of filtering. The transactions missing from F2Pool’s blocks are, however, likely filtered," reported 0xB10C.
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SEC Sues Kraken For Operating Unregistered Securities Platform
Kraken joined the ranks of Coinbase and Binance as the exchange was sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for failing to register as securities business in the United States.
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