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BTC Mixer ‘CoinJoin’ Starts Blacklisting BTC Linked to Illegal Activity
The CoinJoin coordinator that facilitates the coin mixing functionality built into the privacy-focused Wasabi Wallet has started blacklistin...
Darknet Ecstasy Kingpin Forfeits $2.3 Million in Bitcoin
A 25-year-old man from Massachusetts in the US has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for selling illicit drugs for cryptocur...
Chainalysis Reveals ‘Criminal Whales’ Hold $25 Billion in Digital Assets
A new Chainalysis report has revealed that a total of 4,068 “criminal whales” across the globe are holding US$25 billion in digi...
FBI Announces Crypto Crime Division to Tackle Ongoing Ransomware Attacks
The US Department of Justice has announced the establishment of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET). The unit, which will sp...
UK Authorities Make First NFT Seizure, Worth $1.9 Million
In what is claimed to be the first haul of its kind in the UK, tax authorities have seized three NFTs valued at US$1.9 million as part of an...
Bitfinex Hack and Bitcoin Laundering Scheme Coming to Netflix
Remember the Bitfinex hack of 2016? Well, this real-life story is now coming to Netflix as a documentary series about the married couple who...
Tweet NFT Marketplace ‘Cent’ Halts Sales Citing ‘Rampant Plagiarism’
NFT marketplace “Cent” has had to temporarily halt most transactions on its platform to address “rampant” sales of fake and plagiari...
The Story of a Wannabe Rapper and How US Officials Seized $3.6 Billion in BTC
The US Justice Department has impounded US$3.6 billion in bitcoin and arrested a would-be rapper and her husband for conspiring to launder s...
YouTuber ‘Ice Poseidon’ Admits Stealing $500,000 in Blatant Crypto Scam
Ice Poseidon, also known as Paul Denino, a YouTube streamer and internet personality, has admitted to scamming fans out of US$500,000 in a c...
Australian Billionaire Launches Criminal Case Against Meta for Fake Crypto Ads
Australian mining magnate Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest has launched criminal proceedings against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta conglom...
Alert: New Malware ‘Mars Stealer’ Targets 2FAs and Crypto Hot Wallets
A new information-stealing malware has been spotted in the wild targeting over 40 crypto hot wallets, browsers, and 2-factor authentication ...
TIME Token Collapses 60% Amid Revelation that Co-Founder is a Known Convict
DeFi (Decentralised Finance) project Wonderland has seen its native token TIME collapse 60 percent after it was revealed it had been co-foun...