4 suspects forced a Bitcoiner to transfer BTC before killing him, police say

A judge ruled that the developer must stay in jail for 90 days while awaiting charges and a court date. 43 Total views 2 Total shares A judge in the Netherlands ruled that Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev has to stay in jail for 90 more days while waiting for charges. Puzzled by the decision,…

In its most basic sense, a deepfake is a combination of face- and voice-cloning AI technologies that allow for the creation of life-like, computer-generated videos of a real person. In order to develop a high-quality deepfake of an individual, developers need to accumulate tens of hours of video footage associated with the person whose face/voice is…

Stellar Lumens saw major price action after the Stellar Development Foundation signed an agreement with the Ukrainian government. 2385 Total views 9 Total shares Stellar Lumens (XLM) is now the ninth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, overtaking Chainlink (LINK) and Binance Coin (BNB), according to data from major crypto tracking website CoinGecko. At publishing time, Stellar’s market…

THORChain has been called a money laundering protocol — a label no decentralized finance (DeFi) project wants unless it’s prepared to have regulators breathing down its neck. Its supporters have fended off the criticism by championing decentralization, while its critics point to recent activities that showed some of the protocol’s centralized tendencies. After exploiting Bybit

Would you rather bet on YFI or BTC? PlotX seeks to create robust prediction markets for the burgeoning DeFi space by taking a slightly different approach than Augur and other similar projects. Its founder Ish Goel told Cointelegrpah that his company follows in Uniswap's footsteps:What Uniswap did for exchanges, PlotX essentially is planning to do…

PayPal's new crypto services will streamline business adoption of digital assets, says CEO Dan Schulman. 1631 Total views 25 Total shares PayPal’s chief executive believes cryptocurrencies are on the verge of mainstream adoption as more businesses and consumers flock to “digital payments and digital forms of currency.” In an interview with CNBC, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman…

The Switzerland financial authority has today given the green-light for the launch of a digital asset marketplace utilising DLT. 323 Total views 24 Total shares The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, or FINMA, have today announced their approval for regulated Swiss exchange SIX to launch a digital asset marketplace and central securities depository built on…