The U.S. government intends to argue that Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith helped North Koreans better understand how crypto could be used to bypass financial sanctions… Read More »Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Will Likely Face Trial Next September
Attorneys for Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith filed documents over the past week arguing he and they still don’t know exactly what he is being accused… Read More »Virgil Griffith Still Doesn’t Know What Exact Crimes He Is Accused of, Attorneys Say
The world’s largest money transfer service, Western Union, is suspending U.S. dollar transfers to Cuba following the latest sanction from the Trump administration. The move… Read More »Western Union Suspends US Dollar Transfers to Cuba
Iran-based bitcoiner Zahra Amini was used to answering questions on cryptocurrencies, but usually about their relationship with crime. So when a 70-year-old man recently asked… Read More »Iran Is Ripe for Bitcoin Adoption, Even as Government Clamps Down on Mining
The two Russians who were sanctioned earlier this week by the U.S. Treasury Department on accusations of being crypto thieves allegedly got their millions through… Read More »Prosecutors Detail Russians’ Crypto Phishing Scheme in Forfeiture Suit
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has added three Russian nationals and a host of cryptocurrency addresses to its sanctions list… Read More »US Treasury Sanctions Russians Using Crypto for Election Interference
The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a division of the Treasury Department, sanctioned four Chinese nationals for allegedly using cryptocurrency to launder proceeds… Read More »US Agency Says Chinese Drug Traffickers Used Bitcoin to Launder Proceeds
U.S. sanctions in response to Hong Kong’s national security law – and Beijing’s tighter grip over the city’s financial system – could pose challenges for… Read More »Hong Kong’s National Security Law Could Threaten Local Crypto Brokerages
