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US Treasury Department Lacks Power to Pass FinCEN Bill – Coin Center

The controversial draft anti-money laundering/know-your-customer (AML/KYC) crypto compliance regulations proposed by the US Treasury Department and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is continuing to draw criticism from critics, who claim the agency is acting out...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

Russian CBDC To Create ‘Centralized Database’ of Spending, Expert Warns

Another Russian crypto expert has warned of the dangers of the nation’s Central Bank issuing a so-called digital ruble, claiming that neither consumers nor banks are yet sold on the idea of using a digital fiat.In an interview with AB News, Viktor Dostov, the Chairman of the Russian...

, by Tim Alper

BTC Drops Below USD 23K While Investors Watch Elon Musk, New Stimulus, and Crackdown

A Twitter exchange between two of the United States’ prominent businesspeople has possibly added fuel to the bitcoin (BTC) rally this weekend, while the US announced a new coronavirus stimulus package and a regulatory crackdown. However, the rally ended on Monday morning (UTC time), with BTC...

, by Tim Alper

US Treasury Dept’s Reported New Rule Might Increase Bitcoin Surveillance

While the national treasury of the US federal government is said to be on the brink of proposing a new transaction reporting rule, many in the Cryptoverse argue that it would not affect investors and/or that regulations concerning so-called "self-hosted" wallets are nonsensical. However, it might...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Clampdown on Crypto To Keep France In The Paleolithic Era Of Banking – MP

In what he called an attempt to dry the financing of terrorism, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has unveiled a regulation that is to enable the state to combat the anonymity of crypto transactions. Meanwhile, local crypto industry players and at least one politician accuse the ministry of...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

Politicians, Industry, Crypto Fans Unite to Reject Treasury Wallet Plans

Resistance to a new bill rumored to be in the pipelines at the American Treasury Department is growing amid fears that the measure is “potentially being jammed through without congressional review, and without meaningful industry engagement.”Many in the crypto industry – including...

, by Tim Alper

Taproot, One Of Bitcoin’s Biggest Upgrades May Be Coming Next Year

Taproot, one of the most anticipated Bitcoin (BTC) upgrades, and its largest alteration since 2017, expected to improve privacy, scalability, flexibility, and speed of the network - may be coming in a matter of months. Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin evangelist and strategist at crypto exchange Kraken,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Crypto Tech In 2021: Focus on Scalability, Privacy and Usability

We can hope on held-back upgrades - Ethereum 2.0, Bitcoin's Taproot - finally being launched next year. Enhancing user experience will be a big aim. Various platforms will focus on making their networks more decentralized.Among other things, cryptocurrency is also fintech, financial technology....

, by Simon Chandler

New Crypto Unicorn, Filecoins’ First Exbibyte, Catching Monero + More News

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. (Updated at 18:37 UTC with a quote from Dan Schulman, CEO PayPal).Investments news US-based blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis told...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Warning: Physical Cash Will Be Mostly Gone by the End of the Decade

Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology...

, by Bruce Ng

Challenges Remain for VASPs as Regulators Ready New Round of Policing

International bodies representing virtual asset service providers (VASPs) are braced for a whole new set of regulatory hurdles – and seemingly face a race against time to prepare industry-wide standardization before regulators unleash another barrage of policing measures on crypto exchanges...

, by Tim Alper

EU Resolution Draft Seeks to Bypass Encryption – Report (UPDATED)

An alleged document has surfaced, per which the Council of the European Union is seeking to work with governments and industries to find a "balanced" way to bypass encryption and access people's personal electronic devices when a law enforcement investigation requires it, while still protecting...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

People Want Data Privacy But Don’t Always Know What They’re Getting

Gabriel Kaptchuk , Researcher Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Boston University. Elissa M. Redmiles, Faculty member & Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute. Rachel Cummings, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of...

, by Elissa M. Redmiles

FinCEN Hits Bitcoin Mixer With USD 60m Fine

The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said it has assessed a USD 60m civil money penalty against Larry Dean Harmon, the founder, administrator, and primary operator of bitcoin (BTC) mixer (a.k.a. "tumbler") Helix and Coin Ninja, for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and its...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

Upgraded Monero Is Best Performer Among Top 15 Coins Today

Privacy-focused cryptocurrency monero (XMR) is the best performing coin among the top 15 tokens by market capitalization today after it launched its network update this past weekend. At pixel time (15:51 UTC), XMR, ranked 14th by market capitalization, trades at USD 127 and is up by almost 5% in...

, by Eddie Mitchell

Don’t Take Your Privacy For Granted As Regulators Get Anxious About Crypto

Global regulatory actions might be sending a worrying sign to the whole crypto industry and its players that are urged to stay vigilant and protect their right to privacy.A regulatory change is coming, with governments globally looking to impose harsher restrictions on access to cryptoassets,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

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