Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 day ago
Yesterday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, co-founders of Samourai Wallet, a privacy-focused bitcoin wallet that also serves as a mixer, with money laundering and operating an unlicensed money tr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 days ago
In a significant development, Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, founders and CEO of the privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet and mixer, Samourai Wallet, have been arrested and charged with money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transm...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 2 days ago
Bitcoin Mixing Service Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested, Charged With Money Laundering& & Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
Roman Sterlingov, the mastermind behind Bitcoin Fog, a notorious crypto mixing service, has been found guilty by a federal jury. The verdict, a product of a month-long trial, exposes a decade-long operation that allegedly facilitated the laundering o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 months ago
Samourai Wallet, River, Strike, Swan, and other companies in the cryptocurrency space have sent a letter to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), commenting on the proposed rules over mixing transactions introduced in October. These comp...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 3 months ago
On October 23, 2023 we asked our attorney, Rafael Yakobi of The Crypto Lawyers to assemble an expert legal team to respond to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and FinCEN’s proposed rules that would seriously harm your privacy by effectively outlaw...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 3 months ago
On January 22, Coinbase submitted a letter addressed to the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) as a response to the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). The letter challenges the idea that crypto-mixing services are used pri...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 months ago
Financial authorities are preparing to issue cryptocurrency mixing-specific regulations in South Korea to stop criminal groups from using these tools to launder funds obtained illegally. The Korean authorities are discussing whether to allow virtual...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 months ago
The Lazarus Group, one of the most infamous cryptocurrency hacking collectives, has made one of its largest cryptocurrency withdrawals in over a month. According to Arkham, an on-chain intelligence exchange system, the group withdrew a million dollar...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
Bitcointalk, a historic Bitcoin-focused forum, has announced it will start banning mixer-related topics next year. Forum administrator Theymos argued that while these services were not necessarily illegal, a pattern has emerged where these platforms...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 5 months ago
SEC has filed a lawsuit against Kraken.
The SEC is alleging that the exchange has been conducting unregistered operations.
Kraken is also accused of fund commingling.
In a recent development, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 5 months ago
The SEC has accused Kraken of operating as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, dealer, and clearing agency, accusing it of commingling customer and company funds and deficient internal controls. (Read More)
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 5 months ago
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Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 5 months ago
Swan co-founder Yan Pritzker said the firm is pro-privacy and doesn’t oppose customers’ use of such services, but to work, it has to follow FinCEN regulations. Bitcoin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 months ago
Swan Bitcoin, a bitcoin exchange platform, announced recently that it would terminate accounts of users directly interacting with mixing services. The company explained that this was due to the pressure from banking institutions after the Financial C...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 5 months ago
Swan Bitcoin to Terminate Accounts Interacting With Bitcoin Mixing Services – Bitcoin News& & Bitcoin.com News