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Maximum Extractable Value (MEV), in which crypto miners reorder transactions they validate for profit, is not inherently bad, some policy experts point out.
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Chainalysis says it can track 99% of transactions involving Zcash, and almost all of Dash’s – coins that both fancy themselves as private and untraceable. Now, that’s because the majority of users do not utilize the optional privacy-enhancing features available on the two blockchains, it said in a June 8 blog, announcing support for the […] The post Not So Private: 99% of Zcash and Dash Transactions Traceable, Says Chainalysis appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-6-10 01:31 | |
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30% of the privacy-focused tool’s deposits come from dark web market, says leaked report... The post Wasabi, the Bitcoin mixer wallet, is on Europol’s radar for a ‘significant amount’ of dark web transactions appeared first on Coin Journal.
2020-6-5 19:34 | |
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China may be making plans to include its central bank digital currency (CBDC) in international transactions. That’s the rub according to NEO blockchain CEO Da Hongfei who Tweeted on Wednesday: “Da Hongfei, founder of blockchain platform Neo, says the central bank could split part of the digital currency for use outside of China, much as […] The post China May Use CBDC in International Transactions: NEO Chief appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2020-6-4 19:38 | |
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MimbleWimble is a privacy-focused protocol for obfuscating Litecoin (LTC) transactions. Its developer David Burkett has shared an updated roadmap of MW implementation
2020-6-3 15:32 | |
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Cryptocurrencies have been around for more than a decade, so you’d think that banks would have come to terms with fiat money’s chief rival by now. Even Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan, the largest U.
2020-5-5 00:20 | |
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The Bitcoin Association, which promotes Bitcoin SV, says the BSV network is now able to rival credit card processor VISA in terms of transactions per second
2020-4-29 05:52 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino says he hopes pToken – a project he has assisted – will make it easier for retail USDT holders to swap their tokens from one chain to another.
2020-4-27 20:20 | |
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A few hours before Bitcoin flipped $7,000, a US Congressional candidate called it a store of value. Meanwhile, BTC adjusted volume of transactions has hit a new low
2020-4-6 11:50 | |
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U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler and her husband sold up to $3.5 million in stock after a Jan. 24 briefing on COVID-19, but ICE says the transactions were conducted by financial advisors who had no input from the two.
2020-3-20 20:53 | |
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Real disruption in financial services means creating new plumbing for transactions, not nicer apps on top of existing rails, says CoinDesk columnist Lex Sokolin.
2020-2-27 19:28 | |
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Longtime Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fan Roger Ver seems to be changing his mind on Bitcoin (BTC). Segwit transactions are “unfairly cheap,” he said. Bitcoin critics are having a harder time attacking the project after SegWit has proven to lessen transaction costs on the network.
2020-2-25 19:34 | |
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The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is expected to ramp up its cryptocurrency-related enforcement actions, a tax law office warns. US Revenue Agency Looking to Crack Down on Crypto Tax Evasion The IRS has not been explicit on how would it treat taxes related to cryptocurrency transactions.
2020-2-22 20:00 | |
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Chainalysis’ 2019 crime report found illicit activities accounted for roughly 1 percent of overall crypto transactions last year, and better enforcement of anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations could stamp out a large portion of that.
2020-1-30 00:15 | |
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Authorities in Ukraine are planning to track all crypto transactions that exceed $1,200, says Oksana Makarova, the Ministry of Finance’s head in the country. The matter was discussed in an interview with MC Today, a local news outlet.
2020-1-28 00:45 | |
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A study says that IOTA (MIOTA) is much more friendly to the environment as it can do almost 6 mln transactions for every one Bitcoin (BTC) transaction
2020-1-27 20:50 | |
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2019’s decentralized finance (DeFi) boom that has led to more than $785 million being locked in crypto assets is giving accountants serious headaches. Antoine Scalie, the CEO of accounting startup Cryptio says complex assets and transactions make it for the accounting to be more difficult.
2020-1-18 00:33 | |
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Justin Sun, the founder and CEO of TRON, has announced that a TRON-based privacy coin is one step closer to reality. TRON initially announced plans for private transactions in January 2019. Since then, TRON added the feature to its testnet in July and opened it to beta testers in December.
2020-1-7 10:44 | |
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Unlike traditional ones, cryptocurrency wallets store a lot of relevant information such as the secure private key used to access Bitcoin addresses and carry out transactions, etc., And while there arThe post Bitcoin wallets and safety: Phone wallets are the second-best, says Andreas appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-12-23 00:30 | |
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Lowering the costs of private transactions in this way makes the public ethereum blockchain more competitive with private chains, EY says.
2019-12-19 15:11 | |
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A new Bluetooth-based tech could snowball into a way to create truly private transactions, its creator says.
2019-12-19 13:00 | |
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The fintech startup Tradeshift says they have been using the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain in order to process cross border transactions. This allowed the firm to reduce costs and make payments between buyers and suppliers faster and more reliable.
2019-12-18 21:42 | |
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Supply chain fintech startup Tradeshift, which boasts two million firms on its platform, says it's slashed the cost of cross-border transactions between buyers and suppliers using the public ethereum blockchain.
2019-12-18 17:00 | |
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A Federal Reserve official supported a study claiming that 25% of Bitcoin users and 50% of transactions are in some way illegal
2019-12-19 14:36 | |
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According to the blockchain analysis firm Ciphertrace, major U. S. banks process roughly $2 billion in digital currency transactions that go undetected every year. Ciphertrace disclosed a slew of financial institutions have not deployed the right KYC/AML infrastructure to detect unregistered cryptocurrency transfers.
2019-12-17 03:30 | |
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The first week of Lightning Network support at cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, has seen more than 800 transactions make use the Bitcoin payments layer. The company’s Chief Technical Officer Paolo Ardoino says customers have deposited more than seven Bitcoin (~$52,000) to the exchange since it added Lightning payments.
2019-12-10 23:00 | |
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Whale Alert registers twenty-two consecutive transactions in BTC worth almost $9 bln that have taken place over the last two hours
2019-12-6 12:39 | |
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About $400 million worth of XRP tokens can be associated with illegal transactions, according to London-based blockchain analysis firm Elliptic. Ripple is using its affiliated charity foundation as a corporate and executive tax shelter, according to crypto research firm Messari.
2019-11-21 12:20 | |
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As part of efforts to curb the use of blockchain-based virtual currencies for unlawful activities such as money laundering, the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has mandated all money services businesses (MSBs) such as Bitcoin (BTC) trading venues to start transmitting certain customer info for transactions up to $3,000 or higher.
2019-11-21 02:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Facebook’s Libra Testnet Logs Over 51,000 Transactions, Says Project Growing StrongAmidst all the regulatory chaos, Facebook advances the development of its native cryptocurrency project Libra.
2019-11-18 13:05 | |
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An IRS official has said that taxpayers can’t defer taxes on cryptocurrency exchanges, not even for pre-2018 transactions. Things have been clear up until now: taxpayers can’t make like-kind exchanges when it comes to cryptocurrency trades that took place in 2018, as a result of the previous year’s tax overhaul. Like-kind exchanges are allowing taxpayers […]
2019-11-15 23:56 | |
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U.S. taxpayers have never been authorized to postpone paying tax using the like-kind exchange principle, an IRS official says
2019-11-14 18:49 | |
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The crypto custodian facilitates a sizable share of on-chain transactions, a sign of consolidation, and power, in the crypto space.
2019-11-13 22:15 | |
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EOS has become very congested according to Coinbase which publicly said they are “seeing degraded performance for EOS transactions. ” An airdrop is apparently taking almost all capacity, accounting for 95%.
2019-11-11 18:09 | |
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In June 2019, MoneyGram, one of the world’s largest money transfer companies, announced its plans to implement On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) through RippleNet. Less than six months later, MoneyGram Chairman and CEO Alex Holmes announced on stage at Swell 2019 that the company is currently moving 10% of its transaction volume through ODL between the United … Continued The post Swell 2019: MoneyGram CEO Says 10% of Transactions Between Mexico and U.S. Use On-Demand Liquidity appeared first on Ripple.
2019-11-8 11:24 | |
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China’s national digital currency is in the works, which would monitor transactions and curb money laundering. However, according to a recent interview with CNBC on November 5, 2019, Ethereum co-founder, Joseph Lubin, believes that China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) lacks a key component of blockchain technology, which is decentralization.
2019-11-6 10:00 | |
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An active Tron supporter Misha Lederman shares a document, which says Samsung formally adds APIs to support transactions on Tron
2019-10-29 12:32 | |
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Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, is stirring the pot with cryptocurrency users with a recent poll that he took on Twitter. He asked about the opinions of followers on reversing chain activity, if there was ever a major hack of an exchange or another entity.
2019-10-27 19:55 | |
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The positive news has been rolling in for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Just this week, the Opera browser began allowing users to complete Bitcoin and Tron transactions without installing an external wallet.
2019-10-24 02:36 | |
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At a panel discussion conducted by the Chamber of Digital Commerce on October 21, Illinois congressman and member of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus, Bill Foster, spoke on cryptocurrency legislation and his experience with policymakers.
2019-10-22 21:36 | |
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Crypto enthusiasts see bitcoin as a unique asset. Many rely on the cryptocurrency as a store of value while others use it as a payment solution, especially for transactions that involve huge sums of money.
2019-10-21 18:00 | |
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OKEx’s Head of Operations, Andy Cheung, participated in a pre-announced AMA on Telegram today, ‘challenging’ the community to ask him their ‘toughest questions. ’ Cheung started off by talking about how OKEx had recently upgraded its Futures trading system, which improved its placement and transactions speeds.
2019-10-18 20:30 | |
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Bloomberg editor says that blockchains are inefficient and that ‘Bitcoin is for making transactions The Man is against’
2019-10-18 20:27 | |
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This week, popular crypto exchange Binance revealed that it added two new fiat on-ramps for Chinese customers to buy Bitcoin, through popular peer-to-peer platforms Alipay and WeChat. But just as word had begun to spread of the new addition to the world’s crypto market leader, Alipay is now refuting the claim and says that it.
2019-10-11 21:00 | |
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Co-founder and chairman of United States-based asset management company, Blackstone Group, Stephen Schwarzman, in an interview revealed that he wasn’t a fan of Bitcoin. He asserted the same after detailing that anonymous transactions could pave the way for criminal behavior.
2019-10-6 22:30 | |
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Hedera Hashgraph could be making fundamental tradeoffs to achieve its touted 10,000+ transactions per second. These tradeoffs make it one of the most centralized networks on the market, argues well-known crypto developer Eric Wall.
2019-9-20 05:37 | |
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Ethereum has been at the center of controversy as of late due to its scalability issue. At its current iteration, the number two cryptocurrency can only process 15 transactions per second. With over 2,500 decentralized applications (DApps) and more than 16,000 daily users, the network is struggling to keep up with the demand.
2019-9-12 01:10 | |
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Privacy Coins receive a lot of criticism from the community for their privacy-oriented transactions as such virtual assets were recently delisted from various exchanges due to regulatory concerns.
2019-9-9 00:01 | |
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Controversial bitcoin maximalist Samson Mow described Ethereum as “a technological dead-end” after the digital ledger project ran out of capacity. Ethereum Struggles With Congestion Again The network utilization of Ether, Ethereum’s native asset, soared above 90 percent, according to data provided by Etherscan.
2019-8-28 22:41 | |
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Bitcoin is mostly used for speculation and investment on Luno, the CEO reveals
2019-8-27 15:27 | |
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As risk-taking crypto traders sought to make tremendous profits off of surging prices for the suddenly-hot PEPE, a resulting surge in transaction fees brought a windfall to validators running the Ethereum blockchain.
Ethereum MEV bots have captured more than $1 million in profits from 11,640 transactions executed in a single day, according to data from eigenphi.io.
Holders of the former governance token have 90 days to exchange their ROOK for USDC.
Arbitrageurs are eating up precious blockspace with pointless transactions, according to Jito Labs.
Censorship risks over Ethereums block producing industry are melting away as OFAC compliant MEV-Boost relays keep building fewer and fewer blocks. A Steady Decline Ethereums censorship issues are slowly getting...
An ongoing exploit has led to more than $158,000 being extracted from an Ethereum user through an operation involving extremely high gas fees. Gas Fees Gamed An Ethereum user appears...