BTC-e Operator Alexander Vinnik Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy Charge - Vinnik was first arrested in 2017, but faced a lengthy extradition process that saw him spend time in Greece and France before being sent to the U.S.(coindesk.com)
Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested and Charged With Money Laundering(coindesk.com)
Silk Road Bitcoin Worth $2B Moved by U.S. Government(coindesk.com)
Bitcoin Pushes Through $60K for First Time Since November 2021 - The rally continued Wednesday as the spot ETFs continued to see massive inflows of fresh money.(coindesk.com)
Man Behind Defunct BTC-e Exchange Once Popular with Criminals Faces U.S. Charges - Aliaksandr Klimenka is accused of processing billions in transactions for drug peddlers and cybercriminals throughout much of the 2010s.(coindesk.com)
2020 Election Fraud - Congress' FTX Problem: 1 in 3 Members Got Cash From Crypto Exchange Bankers(coindesk.com)
Black Market for Worldcoin Credentials Pops Up in China(coindesk.com)
Elon Musk does fucking insider trading for the whole world to see, again.(coindesk.com)
The corruption of the banking, lending, and hedgefund industry that has abused the cryptocurrency industry, continues to be blamed on cryptocurrency: Forbes pretends they can chain-analysis Binance's off-chain banking(coindesk.com)
Introduced dystopian bill: empowers Secretary of the Treasury to ban banks from dealing with providers of "anonymity-enhancing technologies". This could easily encompass VPNs, Tor, and security tool hosting websites(coindesk.com)
ConsenSys to Update MetaMask Crypto Wallet in Response to Privacy Backlash Over Data Sharing(coindesk.com)
Kraken Cuts 30% of Workforce Amid Crypto Winter(coindesk.com)
Privacy-Enhancing Crypto Coins Could Be Banned Under Leaked EU Plans(coindesk.com)
Tether Freezes $46M of USDT Held by FTX Following Law-Enforcement Request(coindesk.com)
It's Lonely in the Metaverse: DappRadar Data Suggests Decentraland Has 38 ‘Daily Active’ Users in $1.3B Ecosystem(coindesk.com)
Crypto Is Quietly Thriving in Sub-Saharan Africa: Chainalysis Report(coindesk.com)
Solana-Based DeFi Protocol OptiFi Loses $661K in Programming Blunder(coindesk.com)
Madison Cawthorn's House Ethics investigation of straw-grasping eyes crypto trade not cashed out for non-disclosure and proclamation of having a coin as promotion without disclosure(coindesk.com)
Buyer of ‘Jack Dorsey Tweet’ NFT Is Out of Prison and Under Fire From Investors(coindesk.com)
Coinbase Ditches US Customer Tax Form That Set Off False Alarms at IRS(coindesk.com)
Taproot, Bitcoin’s Long-Anticipated Upgrade, Has Activated(coindesk.com)
Bitcoin May Be a Better Investment Than Gold, Says DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach - CoinDesk(coindesk.com)
Nigeria's central bank orders banks to close accounts of crypto users(coindesk.com)
Meet the Technician Who Unlocks Your Forgotten Crypto Wallets(coindesk.com)