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Thai SEC to tighten up rules for crypto, focus on investor protection
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New Zealand’s Financial Authority Blacklists Three Local Crypto Platforms
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US: Crypto Is Among SEC’s Top Examination Priorities for 2019
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Bitcoin core non-profit gets approved for tax exemption, perks for donors
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Russia to regulate digital assets as currency, McDonald’s eyes the metaverse, YouTube to adopt NFTs and XRP pumps 30%: Hodler’s Digest, Feb. 6-12
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MoneyGram admits ‘cybersecurity issue’ behind dayslong outage
MoneyGram’s services have been offline since Sept. 20, with the firm confirming the outage is due to a cybersecurity incident three days later.
City of Niagara Falls orders Blockfusion facility to cease and desist crypto mining
The city notice effectively stopped the facility from conducting “any cryptocurrency mining or related operations” until Blockfusion was in compliance with local zoning ordinances. 186 Total views 3 Total shares
Sauvage Moderne
New privacy coin protocol “Lelantus” that combines Bullet Proofs, Confidential Transactions and One-out-of-Many Proofs to create a new protocol without a trusted setup. Way higher anonymity sets than Monero, no trusted setup (as opposed to Zcash), no fixed denominations (like in Zerocoin as used by Zcoin and PIVX) and based on standard cryptographic assumptions (as opposed to Zcash)