Anna Baydakova

Anna writes about blockchain projects and regulation with a special focus on Eastern Europe and Russia. She is especially excited about stories on privacy, cybercrime, sanctions policies and censorship resistance of decentralized technologies.
She graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University and the Higher School of Economics in Russia and got her Master's degree at Columbia Journalism School in New York City.
She joined CoinDesk after years of writing for various Russian media, including the leading political outlet Novaya Gazeta.
Anna owns BTC and an NFT of sentimental value.

Anna Baydakova

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Policy

Slovenia Financial Agency Proposes New 10% Crypto Tax

The measure is supposed to make cryptocurrency-related tax reporting easier.

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Tech

Money Trail From Liquid Exchange Hack Points to Wasabi Privacy Wallets

Hackers are using Wasabi wallets to launder BTC stolen from Liquid or received in exchange for other stolen cryptos, according to Crystal Blockchain.

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Finance

Liquid Exchange Hacker Covers Tracks by Sending $20M to ETH Mixer

Other portions of the stolen $90 million have ended up at Uniswap, Huobi, Binance and Poloniex, blockchain data shows.

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Markets

TON Legacy: How Telegram's Crypto Coin Lives On

Telegram abandoned its blockchain project in 2020, but devoted fans keep maintaining the open source code and now run two competing networks

Two competing groups are trying to resurrect Telegram's TON blockchain project.

Markets

Founder of Alleged $95M Ponzi Nabbed in Russia, 3 More Sought

Finiko was labeled as a Ponzi scheme by the Bank of Russia but still attracted millions in investment.

Finiko founders Marat Sabirov, Kirill Doronin and Edvard Sabirov (left to right)

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Policy

Russia's Financial Monitoring Agency Wants to Identify and Profile Crypto Users

Rosfinmonitoring will pay $200,000 for a tool to identify crypto users and see if they are involved in criminal activities.

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