Bitcoin expert sentenced to 5 years for money laundering
A Paris court sentenced Russian computer expert Alexander Vinnik to 5 years in prison this week over his role in laundering cryptocurrency for ransomware hackers.
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A Paris court sentenced Russian computer expert Alexander Vinnik to 5 years in prison this week over his role in laundering cryptocurrency for ransomware hackers.
MicroStrategy wants to sell bonds to buy Bitcoin [Bloomberg] Diem worried about ‘confusing’ Libra rebrand [PRNewswire] Wall Street pours hundreds of millions into crypto [Reuters] Ransomware hackers demand $33M from Foxconn [Bleeping Computer] Russian crypto exchange operator gets 5 years [RT]
Darknet revenues top last year’s record [Bitcoin.com] Addresses with 1 ETH at all-time high [Glassnode Studio] MicroStrategy spends $50M more on BTC [Yahoo Finance] China’s digital yuan goes live… sort of [Engadget] ETH staked hits 1% of total supply [Vitalik Buterin] Bitcoin’s Adam Back wants to ditch ‘sats’ [Adam Back]
Raoul Pal’s bold Bitcoin move [Decrypt] Kraken backs Ethereum dev grants [Kraken] Crypto indices by S&P Dow Jones in 2021 [The Block] Ethereum upgrade hits 1M milestone [Dune Analytics] Spotify job hints at crypto future [Spotify] Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones rallies behind Bitcoin… again [MarketWatch] Billions in ‘dormant’ BTC awoken by price surge [Finance Magnates]
PayPal CEO bullish on all kinds of crypto [Decrypt] Visa embraces USDC [Forbes] Ripple relocation still an option [CoinDesk] Bitmain cuts funding for Bitcoin Core devs [Jonas Schnelli] Grayscale splits its Ethereum fund [GlobeNewswire] Lil Yachty to issue Yachty coin [Complex] US congress may soon regulate stablecoins [Rashida Tlaib]
Ethereum Beacon Chain launched [The Block] Libra Association renamed ‘Diem’ [CoinDesk] 20% of PayPal users have used its crypto service [U Today] High hopes for Bitcoin in Kraken survey [Kraken] Sberbank cryptocurrency slated for 2021 [FinBold] USDC issuer hires Wall Street veteran as CEO [CoinDesk] BTC Markets leaks 270,000 names and emails [Business Insider AU]
$100M of crypto stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 is on the move [Dr Kiril Kretov] Bitcoin surges to a new all-time high [CoinMarketCap] Yearn merges with Sushi [Andre Cronje] Tezos looking to incorporate shielded transactions [Tezos] Ethereum’s hashrate and mining difficulty increase amidst Ether rebound [EtherScan] Bernstein Research admits Bitcoin’s asset allocation role [CoinDesk] Huawei […]
Chinese authorities have seized over $4.2B of crypto from the PlusToken Ponzi scheme [The Block] Ripple is reportedly selling a third of its stake in payments processor, MoneyGram [SEC] Guggenheim Partners has reserved the right to allocate up to 10% of its Macro Opportunities Fund in Bitcoin [SEC] Yearn Finance is to join forces with […]
OKEx sees $110M dollars leave its platform, just hours after reopening asset withdrawals [The Block] Facebook is to move forward with the launch of its own dollar-pegged stablecoin, Libra, in January next year [FT] Lending protocol, Compound saw over $100M worth of collateral liquidated on its platform yesterday [LoanScan] Glassnode has revealed that the total […]
BTC miners bag over $353M in October [ComprarAcciones] VanEck launch Bitcoin ETN [VanEck] Over 725,000 now locked for Ethereum 2.0 [Dune Analytics] Armstrong concerned about wallet tracking [Brian Armstrong] PayPal block user for using its own crypto service [Reddit] Was Bitcoin born in London? [ChainBulletin]