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Chinese Fraudster Pleads Guilty to Laundering Nearly $7B in Bitcoin
Zhimin Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, has pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to charges of acquiring and holding criminal property tot...
UN Upgrades Pension System with Blockchain-Based Identity Verification
Global peacekeeping body, the United Nations, has called blockchain the “ultimate technology for digital identity verification” in a new...
Saylor’s Strategy Buys More Bitcoin, Now HODLing over 640,000 BTC
Michael Saylor’s Strategy purchased 196 Bitcoin last week for US$22.1 million (AU$33.6 million), according to a filing with the US Securit...
Swift Teams Up With Global Banks to Build Tokenised Payments Ledger
Global payments giant Swift is building a blockchain-based ledger for cross-border payments, in a project that involves more than 30 financi...
Bitcoin Core v30 Test Release Stirs Debate as Nick Szabo Returns to Weigh In
Bitcoin Core developers have issued a second release candidate for the upcoming v30 update, a major revision that could be deployed in late ...
Pavel Durov Says France Pressured Telegram to Censor Moldovan Political Channels
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has accused French intelligence of attempting to pressure him into removing Moldovan political content from the...
Ethereum ETFs with Massive Outflows, Largest Since Trading Start
US spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have hit some unwanted records over the past few days. The ETFs have seen five days – a whol...
Hyperdrive Exploit Drains US$782K in Third Major Hyperliquid Security Breach
Hyperdrive, a lending protocol on the Hyperliquid blockchain, has reported losses of around US$782,000 (AU$1.19 million) after an exploit on...
“Crypto Mom” Hester Peirce Says U.S. Entering a More Constructive Era for Digital Assets
In a speech given at the annual Coin Center Dinner event in New York on September 25, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner ...
Firedancer Team Proposes Lifting Solana’s Block Compute Limits Post-Alpenglow
Firedancer, Solana’s high-performance validator client developed by Jump Crypto, has put forward a proposal to remove Solana’s per-block...
Singapore, UAE Named World’s Most “Crypto-Obsessed” Nations
Singapore and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have emerged as the world’s most crypto-focused (or obsessed) nations, according to reporting...
BlackRock Files for Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, Expanding Crypto Offerings
BlackRock is expanding its Bitcoin lineup with a new income-focused exchange-traded fund, beginning with the registration of a Delaware trus...