Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 month ago
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has revoked the license of Minerven, the Venezuela-owned gold company, for commercializing gold in international markets. The sanctions on Minerven, which were eased in October, will be applied again on Feb...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 months ago
Bloxroute, a company that provides relaying services, has declared that it will start rejecting block bids with transactions from wallets part of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List (SDN...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 3 months ago
CoinList settles with OFAC for $1.2 million over transactions for users in Crimea, promising to invest $300,000 in compliance enhancements. (Read More)
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 months ago
Tether, a leading stablecoin company in the crypto industry, has announced a significant new initiative aimed at strengthening the security of the crypto asset ecosystem. The company announced this weekend that its recent move to voluntarily freeze t...
More / Etherum Reddit - 3 months ago
I am trying to understand the whole Tornado Cash debacle. on this website: (https://censorship.pics/) it says that 72% of the builders in the ETH network are censoring transactions according to OFAC list. a) Can someone explain me how that really wo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 months ago
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on yet another cryptocurrency mixing platform, labeling Sinbad.io as a “key money-laundering tool” used by the North Kore...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
F2Pool, a Bitcoin mining pool, has admitted to filtering transactions coming from Bitcoin addresses flagged by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). After the situation was discovered by 0xB10C, a Bitcoin developer, F2pool co-founder Chun Wang...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 4 months ago
"This raises the question of why F2Pool, a pool with origins in Asia, is the first pool to filter transactions based on US OFAC sanctions. The Bitcoin network, however, continues to work as normal. A single pool filtering transactions does not a...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 4 months ago
The possibility Bitcoin censorship that has been pointed out by privacy advocates. submitted by /u/RaYZorTech [link] [comments]
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 4 months ago
According to the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Russian national Ekaterina Zhdanova has been sanctioned as punishment for using virtual currency to launder money for designated Russian elites. OFAC said Zhdanova’s properties a...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 4 months ago
Chainalysis Examines Bitcoin Addresses Included In OFAC’s Designation That Were Reportedly Used To& & Crowdfund Insider
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 4 months ago
The US District Court upheld the OFAC's designation of Tornado Cash under the IEEPA, rejecting plaintiffs' claims of overreach and First Amendment violations, highlighting legal challenges for privacy-oriented blockchain entities. (Read More)
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 months ago
The Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) under the Treasury has released an updated version of the specially designated nationals (SDN) list, featuring multiple alleged fentanyl traffickers from China along with their associated cryptocurrency addr...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 6 months ago
The list of top censorship offenders is populated by popular platforms such as Binance, Celsius Network, Bitfinex, Ledger Live, Huobi (HTX) and Coinbase. The historic...
More / Etherum Reddit - 6 months ago
I have an address A1 that received funds from Tornado cash quite some time ago. My understanding is that it is therefore not OFAC compliant. What if I send some funds from A1 to another address A2, is A2 not OFAC compliant either? Or does that stop a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 9 months ago
Stolen loot crypto from Atomic wallets has started passing through sanctioned Russian-based exchange Garantex, according to blockchain security firm Elliptic. Illicit...