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On September 5, Hopkins announced via his Twitter account that he would be reporting to the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institute “for the crime of selling #Bitcoin a few years ago.”In 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a federal bureau…
When war is waged, the State takes priority. Regardless of whatever the pre-war legal norms were, during wartime, whatever the State needs, the State takes. And because the State must have what it needs to wage war, the private sector…
Michael Peterson, the founder of Bitcoin Beach, the circular Bitcoin economy that inspired El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to adopt bitcoin nationally, told Bitcoin Magazine that this is “all about perspective.” “Most negative stories claim [Bitcoin payments adoption] is about…
Bitcoin Core #25717 adds a “Headers Presync” step during Initial Block Download (IBD) to help prevent Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and step towards removing checkpoints. Nodes use the pre-sync phase to verify that a peer’s headers chain has sufficient…
Blockchain systems based on a reusable resource, such as proof-of-stake (PoS), provide weaker security guarantees than those based on proof-of-work. Specifically, they are vulnerable to long-range attacks, where an adversary can corrupt prior participants in order to rewrite the full…
Largest contribution of $100,000 goes to BTCPay Server, an open-source bitcoin payments processor.Two donations of $50,000 each will be allocated to Jon Atak and Josh Kitman. Atak is a core developer continuously reviewing and working to improve Bitcoin, while Kitman…
Poolin’ operators have announced zero fees for all users from September 8th to December 7th and a change from FPPS to PPLNS for bitcoin payout calculation.They also plan to extend the zero fee period to a full year for miners…
“It’s targeting assets, but it’s also providing that valuable, investigative tracing capability and lens for all of our commands across all of our businesses, whether they’re national security-related, child protection, cyber – or the ability to trace cryptocurrency transactions across…
The Bank of Russia and the country’s Ministry of Finance have reconsidered their positions toward cryptocurrency, acknowledging it to be necessary to legalize the use of cryptocurrencies in cross-border settlements, per a report by local news outlet TASS.The move comes…