Hashrate recovery reduces Bitcoin miners’ selling pressure in July

An unknown person or group may be collecting the IP addresses of Bitcoin (BTC) users and linking them to their BTC addresses, violating the privacy of these users, according to a blog post from pseudonymous Bitcoin app developer 0xB10C. The entity has been active since March 2018, and its IP addresses have shown up on…

Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain settlement network welcomed 10 new members to the Liquid Federation on March 27.The new additions bring the Liquid Federation’s membership up to 45 — including crypto exchange trading desks, and financial institutions.New members come from diverse backgroundsThe new members include hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger, peer-to-peer exchange Hodl Hodl, crypto trade firm MerklePro,…

Terraform Labs will put the proposal up for a governance vote on May 18 Asia time. 1422 Total views 4 Total shares On Monday, Do Kwon, co-founder of the troubled Terra Luna blockchain, announced a revised plan to restore the ecosystem after a combination of significant market volatility and inherent protocol design flaws wiped out…

Ross Ulbricht turns 36 years old today. This will be his seventh birthday in incarceration.Ulbricht is the convicted felon serving two life sentences plus 40 years for his role in creating the Silk Road, the online contraband market notorious for its associations with cryptocurrency. Ulbricht says Silk Road was initially envisioned as a libertarian paradise,…

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…

India's Enforcement Directorate will probe crypto exchange WazirX for alleged violations of AML laws and FEMA, in connection with crypto transactions worth $389 million. 907 Total views 2 Total shares The well-known Indian crypto exchange WazirX, which Binance acquired in 2019, is under investigation for alleged violations of India's Foreign Exchange Act (FEMA). The probe…