The Fortnite developer says in-app bitcoin and crypto payments could flourish if not for Apple’s payments monopoly. Source link
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The millennial-friendly investments app is working with regulators on its upcoming bitcoin and ether trading service. Source link
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Marcus will continue running Libra’s Novi digital wallet as he takes on Facebook Financial. Source link
Prosecutors allege the programmer behind movie2k.to helped distribute 880,000 pirated films over a five-year period that ended in 2015. Source link
The Federal Reserve is bullish on technologies that aim to speed payments, and is now rushing to get its own platform, FedNow, up and running. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of […]
Germany’s financial regulator BaFin is seizing bitcoin ATMs run by “Shitcoins Club” months after ordering its Polish operator to cease trading crypto in the country. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of […]
A Brazilian crypto businessman who allegedly arranged his former lawyer’s murder rather than pay the man a R$2.5 million ($471,965) bitcoin debt remains jailed after Brazil’s Supreme Court rejected his request for freedom. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic […]
Publicly traded business intelligence company MicroStrategy said it will invest $250 million of its excess cash in bitcoin, gold and other “alternative assets” over the next 12 months as a hedge against U.S. dollar (USD) inflation. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for […]
A 45-year-old Missouri man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges related to his trying to buy chemical weapons on the dark web using $150 in bitcoin. Read the plea deal below: Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to procure a blockchain forensics tool that can analyze smart contracts and, preferably, highlight their security issues. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of […]
Ripple said Monday that it sold $32.55 million of its XRP cryptocurrency during Q2 2020, a 1,760% jump over Q1’s abysmal sales figures and the first signs of XRP sales growth in nearly a year. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the […]
NetWalker ransomware, which last week triggered cybersecurity flash warnings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has extorted $25 million in bitcoin from its victims during the months of the pandemic, according to a report by McAfee and CipherTrace. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet […]
The Binance-backed travel agency brought in $400,000 in July, a 100% increase from the month before. Source link
U.S. prosecutors are seeking to return $6.5 million in allegedly scammed bitcoin to victims of the “Banana.Fund” crowdfunding project, which the government described in court papers as a Ponzi scheme. In a forfeiture suit against the cryptocurrency account storing the funds, prosecutors allege Banana.Fund’s unnamed administrator admitted to investors his […]
Company executives anticipated regulators might one day take an interest in Binance Chain Source link
Longtime peer-to-peer exchange LocalBitcoins, a former hub for anonymous bitcoin swaps, has added two blockchain-tracing tools from analytics company Elliptic as it continues to chip away at criminal crypto cashouts. Ian Allison contributed reporting. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest […]
The monumental 2016 hack resulted in one of the single-largest losses in bitcoin of all time. Source link
Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation signed a deal last week with BitFury’s crypto-tracing spin-off Crystal Blockchain B.V. to kick-start the government’s virtual asset monitoring initiative, a company executive told CoinDesk. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides […]