Proposed US Blockchain Integrity Act would ban crypto mixers for 2 years

After crypto prices went through the roof in 2017, an eruption of new tokens, companies and products occured. With such a high level of consumer and corporate interest, many promising projects were inevitably lost in the crowd. Fortunately enough, some of cryptocurrency’s biggest names offer their services to a select few projects that are they…

Prominent crypto figure Alex Saunders has come back from months of being inactive on social media to issue a public apology for his actions last year. 471 Total views 33 Total shares Months after a storm of controversies, Nuggets News founder and crypto influencer Alex Saunders issued a public apology over last year’s controversies and…

Blockchain analytics will help ensure that NY-licensed companies don’t send money to sanctioned Russians. 98 Total views 13 Total shares New York state’s efforts to enforce sanctions against Russia have ramped up a gear with the Department of Financial Services, or DFS, expediting the procurement of additional blockchain analytics technology. According to a statement released…

The Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) has ordered three crypto-related companies providing unauthorized investment services to cease and desist, an official release states Monday, Nov. 19.The first company, a trading platform called Richmond Investing, has purportedly violated the Consolidated Law on Finance (TUF) — a fundamental law governing Italian financial markets…

Since Ethereum 2.0 is likely to take a few more years to begin increasing the throughput of the network, community focus is centering on layer-two solutions that could take some of the burden in the short-term.Several solutions that support token transfers are already implemented live, including Matter Labs’ ZkSync and OMG Network’s Plasma. But the…

Riot Blockchain has purchased a further 5,100 Antminer S19 Pros, with the firm targeting an operational hashrate of 2 exahashes per second by June 2021. Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm Riot Blockchain has announced a new purchase of 5,100 Bitmain S19 Pro Antminers, that are slated for deployment in February 2021.The new miners will be…

Bitcoin (BTC) saw further losses on June 12 as thin weekend trading volumes fueled an ongoing sell-off.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewAnalyst likens risk asset 'pump' to 1929Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting lows of $27,150 on its sixth straight day of downside.With hours to go until the weekly close,…

Antoine Riard, who left the Lightning Network in October, argues the Lightning Network is also at risk of becoming increasingly centralized and susceptible to single points of failure and censorship risks. 596 Total views 3 Total shares Developers working on the Bitcoin layer 2 Lightning Network have become less security-oriented and more focused on producing