[ad_2][ad_1] The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) recently hit the founder and main operator of Helix and Coin Ninja with a civil fine of $ 60 million. These companies acted as “mixers” or “glasses” for virtual currencies like Bitcoin. A “mixer” or “tumbler” accepts the currency and transmits it in …
Read More »Blockchain Bites: Digital Yuan’s 4M Transactions, Bitcoin’s 33-Month High, Second Governance Vote by Uniswap
[ad_2][ad_1] October saw the total value locked in all DeFi protocols close below the initial month value for the first time. Square Crypto sponsors a bitcoin wallet designer. A new civil lawsuit claims that BitMEX executives were plundering profits. At stake DeFi contractionIn the last week of October, the DeFi …
Read More »The compelling case of Blockchain in bringing trust and visibility into supply chain transactions
[ad_2][ad_1] Even as technology spreads within supply chains, logistics operations continue to be fraught with visibility issues. This problem stems from logistics stakeholders struggling to trust their partners both up and down the value chain, jeopardizing data interconnectivity and the resulting increase in efficiency. Blockchain as a technology can be …
Read More »US regulators to monitor Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP transactions over $ 250
[ad_2][ad_1] Financial institutions must report transfer information with a value greater than $ 250 for international transactions. Comments on the regulatory proposal will be accepted until 23 November this year. A proposed amendment to the US Bank Secrecy Act indicates an increase in the strictness of regulations towards cryptocurrencies. A …
Read More »RippleNet has processed over 2 million transactions
[ad_2][ad_1] Ripple CTO, David Schwartz, claims to have a significant amount of funds invested in some cryptocurrencies usually referred to as shitcoin. He said this in a recent post on Quora, answering a generic question asking if anyone had lost funds by trading cryptocurrencies. Ripple’s CTO further revealed that the …
Read More »So far, China’s digital currency has been used in 3 million transactions worth over one billion yuan
[ad_2][ad_1] The digital currency of China’s central bank has been used in 3.13 million transactions worth about 1.1 billion yuan ($ 162 million) so far, the deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China reported. In addition, more than 122,000 digital wallets have been created. “Positive progress” of the digital …
Read More »XRP transactions will increase by 1,000% by 2025
[ad_2][ad_1] Independent researchers predict a 1,000% increase in XRP transactions by 2025 due to the sustainable nature of the XRP ledger. Ripple supports the open source EW Zero tool, which helps other blockchain companies become carbon-free in partnership with the Energy Web Foundation. Climate change around the world is unstoppable. …
Read More »Litecoin transactions skyrocket as the LiteBringer game kicks off
[ad_2][ad_1] In the letter The number of Litecoin transactions per day exceeded 130,000 after LiteBringer’s launch. The blockchain-based fantasy RPG allows players to trade their loot with LTC. The drastic increase in economic transactions is good for blockchain, said the project director of the LTC Foundation. After rapid growth in …
Read More »The IRS doubles, investing another quarter of a million dollars in monitoring crypto transactions
[ad_2][ad_1] On September 8, the IRS Criminal Investigation Department signed a $ 249,900 contract with a blockchain analytics firm to expand its crypto-tracking tools. The contract provides limited information, but follows a general IRS trend that steps up its game when it comes to encryption. The company behind the contract, …
Read More »Do you think your cryptocurrency transactions are anonymous? The US government may be able to monitor Monero
[ad_2][ad_1] One of the biggest strengths of cryptocurrency is that it is mostly out of reach for world governments, providing a universal option through which to avoid banks and fiat currencies altogether. This isn’t entirely true of all forms of encryption, however, and one of the more privacy-focused may have …
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