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The Risks of Segregated Witness: Opening the Door to Mining Cartels Which Could Undermine the Bitcoin Network
The Bitcoin Core development team’s proposed scaling solution which would separate signature data (witnesses) from transaction data.
The Bitcoin Core development team’s proposed scaling solution which would separate signature data (witnesses) from transaction data.
As time goes on, we see two things from Tether: more evidence that USDT is unbacked, and an increasing reliance on Tether throughout the industry and beyond it. The month of June has been no exception.
Blockstream CEO Adam Back desperately wants to be seen as Bitcoin’s all-father despite his ongoing efforts to strangle Bitcoin in its cradle.
While the Crypto Crime Cartel is far-reaching, the BCH network is becoming a regular feature in the emerging criminal scandals.
Two prominent names in the Crypto Crime Cartel were arrested as the long overdue legal reckoning chews through prominent industry companies and individuals at the start of what is set to be a busy 2021.
The six accused were allegedly part of a crime ring operating in U.S., Mexico, China, Belize, and Guatemala that launders money derived from sale of cocaine and other illegal drugs.
In the latest example of banks taking exception to promising crypto businesses, press reports have revealed that Vancouver-based QuadrigaCX has been facing a freeze on assets worth as much as CAD28 million.
Reuters have published the results of an investigation into Binance, revealing that the company pursued a strategy of misleading and dodging regulators which involved forging documents, among others.
The Public Security Bureau in Chengdu, China, recently announced the disruption of a “huge underground bank” that used Tether’s USDT token as “a medium to provide illegal services to customers.”
Anton and James Peraire-Bueno could face up to 20 years in prison if proven guilty of netting $25M worth of tokens using MEV-Boost, a move that they have allegedly planned since December 2022.
Tether claimed to have generated a profit of over $4.5 billion in the first three months of 2024, but while its gains seemed rosy, the USDT issuer still couldn't get a break from its alleged criminal ties.
Alexey Pertsev was accused of allowing criminals to launder US$1.2 billion worth of the Ethereum network’s ETH token through the Tornado Cash coin mixing service.