BNY Mellon Officially Named as Transfer Agent for Bitwise’s Proposed Bitcoin ETF

Coinspeaker BNY Mellon Officially Named as Transfer Agent for Bitwise’s Proposed Bitcoin ETFOn September 11, Bitwise officially announced the appointment of the Bank of New York Mellon to serve as the administrator and transfer agent for its forthcoming Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).

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BNY Mellon to Act as Transfer Agent for Bitwise’s Proposed Bitcoin ETF

Bitwise has chosen BNY Mellon to be the transfer agent for its Bitcoin ETF, while Foreside Fund Services will be the marketing agent and Cohen & Company will act as auditor

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Bitwise Taps BNY Mellon as Transfer Agent for Proposed Bitcoin ETF

Bitwise has tapped Bank of New York Mellon to act as the administrator and transfer agent for its proposed bitcoin ETF.

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US Capital Global Securities Expands DLT Portfolio with Holdings in Coinbase, Bakkt and More

US Capital Global Securities, a leading FINRA-regulated broker-dealer arm of US Capital Global that is functioning as the exclusive placement agent of CityBlock Capital, is offering accredited investors a $10 million equity in the latter’s tokenized venture fund, NYCQ Fund LP.

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Crypto.com payment blockchain welcomes OSL as first settlement agent

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceCrypto. com, a cryptocurrency payments platform, announced today that it has welcomed OS Limited (OSL) as its first settlement agent along with Paxos and TrustToken as stablecoin partners for the recently launched Crypto.

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Edward Snowden used Bitcoin to fund NSA document leaks

Despite sporting the ‘wanted’ status for over six years under the Espionage Act, Edward Snowden made an online appearance in Bitcoin 2019 Conference held in San Francisco, CA. All the way from Russia, Snowden’s intent was to share his experience and support toward Bitcoin [BTC].

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Bitcoin Tax Evaders Will Be Criminally Prosecuted, Warns IRS Agent

By CCN Markets: The IRS will soon hunt down bitcoin users who don’t pay taxes by criminally prosecuting them en masse. That’s the prediction of IRS tax investigator Gary Alford, who says the agency is ready to clamp down on crypto tax evaders.

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Is HSBC Bank Blocking All Users’ Bitcoin Purchases and Cryptocurrency-Related Transactions?

HSBC could be blocking crypto-related purchases Several financial institutions have taken similar measures in the past The British multinational banking company, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), seems to have been halting crypto-related transactions.

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Crazy Crowdfund Scammer Pitched a Backpack, Stole $800,000 to Buy Bitcoin

By CCN. com: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched legal action against a serial crowdfund scammer who used his ill-gotten gains to buy Bitcoin. Douglas Monahan promised consumers a ‘high-tech’ backpack known as the iBackPack, but failed to deliver the product after raising over $800,000.

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FinCEN Issues First-Ever Civil Penalty Against Bitcoin Exchange

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau within the U. S. Department of the Treasury, has imposed its first-ever penalty on a peer-to-peer crypto exchange for violating AML regulations, among other violations.

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Review: Crypto Is a Surprisingly Fun Movie About Compliance

“Fuck” is the first word uttered in Crypto. It might also be yours after watching John Stalberg Jr’s claustrophobic movie about an anti-money laundering agent caught in a web of deceit, intrigue, and bad beer.

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Bitcoin Trader Sentenced to Two-Year Prison Term

Bitcoin trader Jacob Burrell Campos was sentenced on April 8, 2019, to serve a two-year prison sentence and to forfeit more than $800,000 “for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.

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Chinese Bitcoin Miners Suffer in Iran Despite Cheap Power

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Many Chinese cryptominers have migrated to places with cheap electricity and favorable policies as a result of the escalated government crackdown on cryptocurrency and its production process.

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Securities Dealer Faces $990,000 Fine for Illegal Bitcoin Activities

1pool Ltd. , an international securities dealer, is facing fines of almost a million dollars after being discovered by an FBI agent to be running an illegal Bitcoin operation, the CTFC announced On March 11, 2019.

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Bitcointopia Founder Admits Selling Government-Owned Land to Bitcoiners

The founder of a scheme called Bitcointopia to sell land in the U. S. state of Nevada to bitcoiners has admitted in a federal court that some land was not his to sell. Previously arrested for selling BTC to an undercover agent through Localbitcoins, he also pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed money transmitting business.

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Drug Dealer Fights to Prevent Canadian Police From Forfeiting His BTC

A Canadian online drug dealer, snared by an undercover police agent on the dark web, is pleading to be allowed to keep half of the 288 bitcoins that police seized from him as proceeds of crime. With prosecutors seeking a court order to forfeit the crypto stash, worth CAD$1.

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QuadrigaCX CEO Widow Sells Estate Assets, Reportedly Places Others in Trust

Jennifer Robertson, the widow of the late QuadrigaCX exchange CEO, appears to be liquidating and shuffling some estate assets. When QuadrigaCX founder and CEO Gerald Cotten passed away suddenly in December of 2018 in India, he was allegedly the only person with the knowledge of the exchange’s cold storage keys.

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Mojave Desert is Fertile Ground for America’s Largest Planned Solar Bitcoin Mining Farm

Plouton Mining is building one of the largest solar Bitcoin mining facility in the United States in California’s Mojave desert. The co-founder, Sammy Del Real, is a brain cancer survivor, musician, and high performing real-estate agent.

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The Daily: Grin Developer Fund Grows, Russian Agent’s BTC Transaction Tracked

In this edition of The Daily, a leading Grin developer has received donations worth $26,000 to fund his work on the project. Also, research group Bellingcat has tracked a BTC transaction allegedly made by Russian agents meddling in U.

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IOTA Release a Permissionless Chat Application on the IOTA Tangle

IOTA started the New Year with a new chat application running on IOTA Controlled agenT (Ict). The app was released by IOTA’s Omega Team members MicroHash (Lukas Tassanyi) and Samuel. In a blog post introducing the app to the community, Tassanyi noted that Ict is often considered futuristic and difficult to understand, but the new CHAT.

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More Stamps Global (MSG) Is The Biggest Travel Agent For Bitcoin And Blockchain Asset Community

More Stamps Global – Facilitating Travel Using Cryptocurrencies The holiday season is about to kickoff and many people are making plans to travel. A good percentage of these people are also wondering whether they can pay for their travels using cryptocurrencies.

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Just the Facts: An Unembellished Examination of Ross Ulbricht's Arrest

The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network hosts several podcasts for regular discussion topics in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency, including the popular weekly show What Bitcoin Did.

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Bloq CEO, Crypto Pioneer Jeff Garzik: Bitcoin’s Store Of Value Property Is Unquestionably Successful

Bloq.com CEO Says That Bitcoin Is An Unquestionable Success When It Comes To Store Of Value One of the earliest figures in the crypto community, Jeff Garzik was recently interviewed by Bloomberg in which he said that when it comes to being an agent for storing value, bitcoin has been an unquestionable success. Jeff’s Journey […]

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Unchained Capital Revamps Loans With Multi-Party, Multi-Sig Storage

Blockchain financial service company Unchained Capital will now offer multi-signature and multi-institution cold storage solutions for borrowers who leverage its crypto-collateralized loans service.

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Bitcoin Is “Pseudonymous” And Not Anonymous As Authorities Continue To Track BTC Transactions

A U. S based finance reporter that concentrates more on Cryptocurrency disclosed that her conversation with an FBI agent has reveal that the usage of Bitcoin transaction in the black market has dropped drastically practically due to the fact that officials can now track transactions.

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Bitcoin Transactions Are More Traceable Than You Think – Camila Russo

For those who believe Bitcoin (BTC) transactions are very anonymous, there is a bit of bad news as Camila Russo, a fintech journalist says transactions with the leading cryptocurrency is not as concealed as most people have been led to believe.

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UK Bank NatWest to Leverage Blockchain Technology in Syndicated Loan Market

United Kingdom’s major commercial bank NatWest announced to leverage blockchain technology for the syndicated loan market, from the coming month. The technology will be introduced to effectively streamline communication between lenders and agent banks in the loan market sector.

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Only 39 Percent Pass Malta’s Cryptocurrency Exam

The pass rate for the exam developed by the Maltese government for financial services practitioners seeking to obtain cryptocurrency agent certification is reportedly only 39 percent. The exam is part of the requirements mandated by the country’s newly established Virtual Financial Assets Act.

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Only 39 Percent Pass Malta’s Cryptocurrency Exam for Financial Services Practitioners

The pass rate for the exam developed by the Maltese government for financial services practitioners seeking to obtain cryptocurrency agent certification is reportedly only 39 percent. The exam is part of the requirements mandated by the country’s newly established Virtual Financial Assets Act.

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DEA: The Number Of Illegal vs. Legal Uses of Bitcoin Has Swapped

If 90 percent of Bitcoin’s applications used to be tied to illegal activities in 2013, today, the cryptocurrency is being used for legal financial speculation in 90 percent of cases. Bitcoin and illegality are found in association only 10 percent of the time currently.

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You Can Buy French State Secrets With Bitcoin, Apparently

Ever wanted to find out more about secret and special operations in France? Ever wondered what secrets exist at a government level? Well, according to reports out today, an unidentified agent from the General Directorate for Internal Security (GDIS) has been selling French state secrets on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin.

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French security official arrested for selling ‘secrets’ for Bitcoin

A French security official has earned themselves a fast-track ticket to the Bastille after being arrested for allegedly selling “state secrets” on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin. The unidentified agent, who worked for the General Directorate for internal security (GDIS), was arrested on September 26, Le Parisien reports.

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France Accuses Intelligence Agent of Selling State Secrets for Bitcoin

A French intelligence agent was arrested for allegedly selling state secrets for bitcoin.

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PR: CrowdForce Launches ICO For Blockchain Based Agency Banking & Data Collection Platform

94% of Transactions are done offline and 3 billion people are underbanked and unbanked in Emerging Markets “CrowdForce” Announces Launching of ICO For Their Blockchain Based Agency Banking & Data Collection Platform Mahe – In 2016 Alphabet’s CEO, Eric Schmidt predicted that “the next $100 billion company will be driven by crowd-based solutions.

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DOJ Special Agent Empathizes With Bitcoin Adoption in Venezuela

In an interview conducted earlier this month at the Chainxchange blockchain convention, Lilia Infante, a special agent with the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ) who pioneered the DOJ’s first Cyber Investigative Task Force looking at the use of cryptocurrencies in criminal investigations, recently discussed her views regarding the adoption of virtual currencies.

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The Vast Majority of Bitcoin Transactions are Used for Legal Activities Reports the DEA

The U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has found that cryptocurrency use is now dominated by Bitcoin speculators, and the ratio of legal to illegal activity surrounding Bitcoin has reversed.

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On-Chain BCH Used in a Submarine Swap for Off-Chain BTC

This week an individual revealed he had completed the first trustless swap by trading on-chain bitcoin cash (BCH) for off-chain bitcoin core (BTC) using Alex Bosworth’s submarine swap protocol. Also read: Illegal Activity No Longer Dominant Use of Bitcoin: DEA Agent On-Chain Bitcoin Cash Submarine Swapped for Off-Chain BTC The decentralized cryptocurrency bitcoin cash (BCH) was […] The post On-Chain BCH Used in a Submarine Swap for Off-Chain BTC appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Illegal Activity No Longer Dominant Use of Bitcoin: DEA Agent

A special agent with the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has reportedly revealed that the use of bitcoin in illegal activities has shrunk to about 10 percent from 90 percent previously.

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US DEA ‘Actually Wants’ Criminals to Keep Using Bitcoin

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent has told mainstream press she “wants” criminals to use cryptocurrencies because it makes them easier to track. ‘I Want Them To Keep Using Them’ Speaking to Bloomberg August 7, Lilita Infante, who takes part in the agency’s 10-person Cyber Investigative Task Force, said investigators had “a lot of tools” to monitor criminal activity thanks to Blockchain.

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DEA Agent: Speculators Are Using Bitcoin More Than Criminals

Criminals were behind 90 percent of all cryptocurrency transactions five years ago – not anymore according to a DEA agent.

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Investors and Not Criminals dominate Bitcoin Transactions, Says Federal Agent

Lilita Infante, a special agent of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has declared that Speculative investors dominate Bitcoin transactions as against criminal activities like money laundering, tax evasion, and drug trafficking.

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State’s First Bitcoin Home Sold by Delaware Real Estate Agent

In this case, Bitcoin was recently used to purchase a stunning home in the state of Delaware. A First for the First State According to the Delaware Business Times, a Newark home worth $ 1.75 million was recently sold by Michael Kelczewski, a real estate broker for property giant, Sotheby’s International Realty. Just the Beginning

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Delaware Real Estate Agent Sells State’s First Bitcoin Home

Even though some ‘experts’ feel that Bitcoin and the like have no value, these virtual currencies continue to be used as payment methods. In this case, Bitcoin was recently used to purchase a stunning home in the state of Delaware.

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FBI Has 130 Cryptocurrency-Related Cases, Reveals Agent

The cryptocurrency industry is linked to several illegal activities, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is currently investigating 130 cases. Kyle Armstrong, a supervisory special agent, revealed info while speaking at a cryptocurrency conference titled “Crypto Evolved” in New York on Wednesday, June 27, reported Bloomberg.

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Ross Ulbricht Is Denied Prison Sentence Review by Supreme Court

The Supreme Court announced on June 28, 2018, that it will not reconsider the conviction or life sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind behind the darknet site Silk Road.

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Insight From a Place of Crisis: Bitcoin as an Agent of Change

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Why Australia Wants Some Of Your Bitcoin Gains

Australia is moving towards requesting all cryptocurrency exchanges to report to the Australia Taxation Office, in order for them to collect Capital Gains Tax on all cryptocurrency gains, which essentially means that they will be classified as assets.

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Australia Wants a Piece of Your Profits-Got Bitcoin Mate

Cryptocurrency = Asset Liz Russel, a senior tax agent at a private Australia online tax return service, shared some insights on the way theATO will be treating cryptocurrency gains and what people should expect.

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Got Bitcoin Mate? Because Australia Wants a Piece of Your Profits

After moving to request all cryptocurrency exchanges to report to the country’s watchdog agency, the Australia Taxation Office (ATO) will be collecting Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on cryptocurrency gains, essentially classifying them as assets.

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