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* From the 12th October - 28th November makers can accelerate their bitcoin projects through mentorship in design, development, and lightning integration. Forming teams to hack on new or existing projects, makers can show off their progress, activity, and updates as they #BuildInPublic - competing for up to ~$60,000 (3
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U.S. Senator Ron Wyden says his office was informed this summer that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is building a massive database with content seized from Americans’ cellphones at the border. Without warrants, the agency permits thousands of employees to search the database “for any reason."
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Over the past six months, agencies across the government have worked together to develop frameworks and policy recommendations.
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“The United States will continue to take strong actions to hold Russia accountable for its war crimes, atrocities and aggression,” said Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen.
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* The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions today against ten individuals and two entities affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their involvement in ransomware attacks. https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20220914 archive: https://archive.ph/8vWnP No
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* LNMarkets is a no-kyc bitcoin exchange * Trading limit 5 times bigger: from 2 to 10 million satoshis (0.1 BTC) * Infrastructure is now hosted with Nodl Cloud rather than Amazon * Additional login option with Lightning Node Connect * New languages: Spanish & French * Simple transfers within different LNM accounts with Lightning
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* For transactions involving Tornado Cash that were initiated prior to its designation on August 8, 2022 but not completed by the date of designation, U.S. persons or persons conducting transactions within U.S. jurisdiction may request a specific license from OFAC to engage in transactions involving the subject virtual
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* The Linux Foundation, a global nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, today announced the intention to form the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF), a new collaborative effort to develop open source software to support interoperability for a wide range of wallet use cases. The initiative already benefits from strong support including
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* Sum is only a fraction of hundreds of millions siphoned in breach of ‘Axie Infinity’ online videogame this year. * Sky Mavis Ltd., publisher of the game “Axie Infinity,” said in March that hackers had infiltrated part of its Ronin Network. The infiltrators gained access to accounts holding cryptocurrencies and drained
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* The IOU-token represents users’ certain kind of asset held in the assets account of PoolinWallet as well as the mining pool account of PoolinMiningPool. There will be six IOU-tokens issued by PoolinWallet, namely the IOUBTC, IOUETH, IOUUSDT, IOULTC, IOUZEC, and IOUDoge, representing users’ original holdings of BTC, ETH, USDT, LTC,
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* By leveraging a network of select digital custodians to safeguard assets, trades will be netted and settled on the blockchain for greater speed and efficiency at lower cost, eliminating the need for expensive bilateral settlement. Customer security and regulatory compliance are also core foundational principles for EDXM. In particular, it
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* He pleaded guilty on Monday to a wire fraud conspiracy charge, in what U.S. prosecutors have called the first insider trading case involving cryptocurrency. * Nikhil Wahi, 26, admitted during a virtual court hearing before U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan that he made trades based on confidential
