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🚨NEW: EU TO REVIEW DEFI REGULATION
The EU has opened a public consultation on whether “decentralized financial services” should fall under MiCA.
But regulators struggle to define what decentralization means.
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Joined May 2024
- 🚨NEW: EMAILS REVEAL JEFFREY EPSTEIN MONEY FINANCED BITCOIN CORE DEVELOPMENT “Used gift funds to underwrite this which allowed us to move quickly and win this round. Thanks,” Media Lab Director Joi Ito wrote Epstein in an email titled DCI. Full story👇
- 🚨JUST IN: IRS Special Agent George, tasked with tracing the Government's first witness' funds to Tornado Cash, testifies that he does not know what crypto[.]com is, doesn't know the difference between ERC-20 and ETH
- New Google Play Store policy forces AML/KYC on non-custodial wallets in the US, effectively bans non-custodial wallet developers from Play Store in EU Full Story👇
- 🚨LEAKED: LUKE DASHJR PLANS HARDFORK TO "SAVE BITCOIN" Text messages show the Knots maintainer is considering a hardfork to implement a trusted multisig committee that can retrospectively alter the blockchain to remove illicit content. Full story👇
- 🚨SCOOP: US GOVERNMENT TO BRING PATRIOT ACT TO DIGITAL ASSETS FinCEN Director reveals Treasury is finalizing ban on privacy tools, Representatives revive Special Measures to Fight Modern Threats Act Full story👇
- 🚨NEW: US GOVERNMENT SEEKS MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR SAMOURAI WALLET DEVELOPERS "I co-founded a software company to develop tools that could provide the anonymity necessary to make Bitcoin work as intended," Hill tells the court. Full story👇
- Scoop: Judge grants delay of Tornado Cash trial Showing a keen grasp of the key issues, Judge Failla asked whether the charges were comparable to criminally charging the creators of WhatsApp because criminals used it. By @davidzmorris
- 🚨UPDATE: Google has clarified that non-custodial wallets are not meant to be in scope of the Play Store policy. The policy will be updated accordingly.Replying to @theragetechThanks for flagging this. Non-custodial wallets are not in scope of Google Play’s Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Software Wallets Policy. We are updating the Help Center to make this clear.
- 🚨JUST IN Samourai Wallet developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill have notified the court of a change of plea – expected to plead guilty. Hearings scheduled for tomorrow 10:00 and 10.30
- 🚨NEW: US WANTS TO KEEP 127,000 BTC IN LARGEST ASSET FORFEITURE IN HISTORY The lack of advocacy for the funds to be returned to victims displays the perverse incentives birthed by the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Full story👇
- 🚨JUST IN: KEONNE RODRIGUEZ SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS, $250,000 FINE
- Replying to @0xfoobarGood to see you focusing on the important parts here bro
- DARPA to launch pre-crime AML program: The Department of Defense is planning to launch a new anti-money laundering program aiming to stop money laundering before it happens.
