Does Ross Ulbricht’s pardon change the narrative of Bitcoin as a crime tool?

Bitcoin (BTC) stayed rangebound at the July 28 Wall Street open despite further United States inflation data beating expectations.BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingViewFed's "preferred" inflation metric points to waning pressureData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC price action getting only a modest boost from the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index print.This came in…

Can anyone hold North Korea responsible for its attacks on the crypto industry? 1390 Total views 22 Total shares There has been a hot political debate underway on who should take responsibility for countering North Korean hacks targeting South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges. Recently, South Korea's financial watchdog made it clear that they do not see…

Chrysalis is barely a week away from going live. The IOTA network is preparing to launch the first phase of Chrysalis, also known as IOTA 1.5, on its mainnet sometime next week.According to a tweet published by the IOTA Foundation, the upgrade will allow the network to process 1,000 transactions per second, and will institute…

The Bail Bloc initiative has started using cryptocurrency raised through charity to help people get out of U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pretrial incarceration, according to a tweet posted by a Bail Bloc co-founder Nov. 15.ICE is a law enforcement agency of the federal government of the U.S, the mission of which is to…

Blockstream’s Liquid Network is now featuring its own Javascript library for developers to easily interact with the blockchain.Named LiquidJS, it was developed and announced by pTokens, an interoperability project working to bring assets cross-chain. The open-source library simplifies access to the Liquid Network for external applications, with no requirements of setting up dedicated nodes.Thomas Bertani,…

As the value and popularity of digital assets continue to rise, cybercriminals are incentivized to exploit any vulnerabilities they can find.

Hester Peirce, commissioner at the United States securities regulator, has urged for a less cautious approach towards innovation in the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) space on the regulator’s part. The Financial Times reported on her remarks on June 2.Per the report, the Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Peirce called on her co-commissioners to allow for innovation…

July 15 will mark the first day in the office for the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) new chairman, Heath Tarbert. As the crypto community is bidding farewell to the regulator’s outgoing head, J. Christopher Giancarlo, his successor’s stance on digital assets remains unknown. Turning to Tarbert’s record as a civil servant and…