Australian crypto fraud just got a little harder. Federal Police have launched a new unit to tackle money laundering using cryptocurrencies. Stefan Jerga is the national lead of criminal confiscation at the Australian Federal Police […]
A plan to record land ownership in Colombia in partnership with Ripple Labs appears to have run into trouble and may never materialize. A move by the previous Ministry of Information Technology to record ownership […]
Ethiopian authorities now require all crypto businesses to register with the Information Network Security Administration (INSA) in ten days. The crypto registration scheme was made possible by the amendment of a law that gave the […]
Digital asset manager Grayscale filed applications for Stellar (XLM), Zcash (ZEC), and Horizen (ZEN) trusts in June 2022 and then in mid-August 2022. The second filing responded to a query by the Securities and Exchange […]
Crypto influencer Ben Armstrong, aka BitBoy Crypto’s lawyers, served Erling Mengshoei (Atozy) the official lawsuit at his home on Aug. 23, 2022. Atozy, who believes plaintiff BitBoy’s lawsuit alleging defamation and emotional distress is ‘frivolous,’ […]
With the U.S. midterm on the horizon, politicians, including Joe Biden, are targeting younger voters through a recently announced student loan debt-forgiveness plan that could free up cash for crypto investments. The new plan echoes […]
The South African Reserve Bank has released guidelines for local banks to do business with cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency companies. The document, released by the Reserve Bank’s Prudential Authority, advises banks to employ anti-money laundering and […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo is offering crypto firms an opportunity to bid for oil and gas exploration areas. This auction comes as western governments desperate to shore up additional oil production call on the […]
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned the token mixing platform Tornado Cash. According to the department, the mixing service has been responsible for $7 billion in illicit fund flows since […]
Cybersecurity experts claim North Korean hackers are posing as job applicants for crypto jobs in wealthy countries to fund government operations. So-called North Korean software developers are scraping LinkedIn and job site Indeed to steal […]
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