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The crypto advocacy group said OFAC must act within its statutory authority by sanctioning bad actors, not open-source software tools. The Blockchain Association has thrown fresh support behind six plaintiffs suing the United States Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) over its sanctions on the crypto mixer Tornado Cash.In a Nov. 20 amicus curiae

South Korea will get a separate security tokens market operated by Korea Exchange. 435 Total views 11 Total shares Guidelines for security tokens in South Korea will be announced by the end of 2022. Simultaneously, the pilot market with a regulatory sandbox will be launched before the formal institutionalization. Chief South Korean financial regulator, the Financial…

Major crypto exchange Binance is looking for managerial staff to establish its office in Turkey, according to job postings on LinkedIn.Binance listed a total of five open positions on its LinkedIn company page as of Dec. 6 to establish a local presence in Istanbul, Turkey. The company is seeking managers for its finance, compliance, marketing,…

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Breaking: Google taps Coinbase to bring crypto payments to cloud…

While some global cryptocurrency exchanges move to expand Know Your Customer (KYC) rules, some major rivals claim that crypto platforms don’t need KYC at all.Digitex, a Seychelles-based crypto derivatives exchange, will start removing KYC identification this week in response to a major user data leakage that happened last month.Digitex will have no KYC identity requirements…

It may be too early for Bitcoiners to start getting bullish over the longer-term impacts of a potential recession on Bitcoin’s price, says 10x Research head of research Markus Thielen. Thielen said in an April 11 markets report that credit spreads continue to widen, indicating that “recessionary concerns may be seeping deeper into the economy.”

11 HOURS AGO Who do you think has adopted blockchain best? Reply in the comments! Who do you think has adopted blockchain best? Reply in the comments! 625 Total views 97 Total shares Reply Last week, Forbes released its new list of “Blockchain’s Billion Dollar Babies” — i.e., companies implementing blockchain technology that have minimum…

A new theory regarding the true identity of anonymous Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto has emerged from an extremely unlikely source. Enter the Escobar family and their story about Yasutaka Nakamoto.The story goes like this: Yasutaka Nakamoto was a high-ranking engineer for Pacific West Airlines who worked for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, smuggling drugs into…

The discrepancies between the government’s claims and the blockchain data highlight a tense dynamic between digital finance and state authorities.