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Coinbase Aligns With Treasury to Fight Crypto Bad Actors Without Wrecking Privacy

March 23, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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Coinbase CEO backed Treasury’s shift on crypto regulation, urging crime crackdowns that protect innovation, privacy, and free speech without punishing open-source technology. Coinbase to Treasury: Let’s Crush Crypto Crime Without Killing Innovation Brian Armstrong, the CEO of crypto exchange Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN), has endorsed the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s decision to reverse sanctions on […]

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Massive Campaign Uses Over 700K Wallets in Cryptojacking Scheme

March 15, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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A cryptojacking campaign that encompasses the use of over 700K cryptocurrency addresses has been unveiled by cybersecurity company Ciberark. Massjacker is a crypto jacking tool, meaning that it hijacks the clipboard of the infected devices, changing the cryptocurrency addresses into others, and making people deposit crypto to addresses different than the ones intended. Ciberark estimated […]

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Blockchain Week Rome 2025 Returns for Its Sixth Edition as Italy’s Premier Crypto and Blockchain Event

March 12, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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This content is provided by a sponsor. PRESS RELEASE. On May 9-10, 2025, Blockchain Week Rome returns for its sixth edition. BWR25 confirms its position as the largest Italian event dedicated to blockchain and crypto, a key reference point in the Mediterranean, set to welcome over 4,000 participants at the Palazzo dei Congressi, EUR, Rome. […]

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Coinbase Acquires Blockchain Startup’s Team To Enhance Privacy Efforts on the Base Network

March 8, 2025 The Daily Hodl

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The top US-based crypto exchange platform Coinbase is acquiring a blockchain startup’s team to bolster its privacy efforts on Base. In a new announcement, Coinbase says it is onboarding the development team of layer-1 project Iron Fish (IRON) to help develop “privacy-preserving primitives” on Base, the crypto exchange’s proprietary blockchain. Coinbase highlights that it is not […]

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Sam Altman’s World Halts Operations in Brazil: What’s Happening

February 13, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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World is pausing its operations in Brazil after an appeal to continue collecting citizens’ biometric data failed. The national watchdog ordered the project to cease exchanging crypto for this data, and World will need to pause its operations in order to adapt to this decision. World Pauses Operations in Brazil to Adapt to National Data […]

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Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev Walks Free

February 7, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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In a positive turn of events, the court released the 31-year-old developer and placed him under house arrest and electronic monitoring until his trial. Tornado Cash’s Alexey Pertsev Regains Freedom Following Court Decision After languishing in a Dutch jail for nine months, Alexey Pertsev, one of the developers of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, was […]

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5 Arrested Trying to Purchase Biometric Data by Mimicking Sam Altman’s World Activities in Argentina

February 7, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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Authorities believe criminals might use this biometric data to create digital replicas, facilitating digital ID theft and fraud crimes by taking advantage of the popularity of Sam Altman’s World in Argentina. 5 Citizens Arrested in Argentina Purchasing Biometric Data Criminals are taking advantage of the popularity of Sam Altman’s World, the biometric proof-of-personhood protocol, to […]

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Nearly 3 Million Have Enrolled in the Russian Unified Biometric System

January 31, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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About 3 million citizens have registered their personal data on the Russian Unified Biometric System. Authorities state that the population is warming to the use of these technologies, as 80% of registrations occurred last year. Russian Unified Biometric System Gets Closer to 3 Million Users Registered The Russian state biometric data cache is getting larger. […]

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Brazilian Authorities Suspend Sam Altman’s World Rewards

January 27, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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The National Data Protection Authority (ANPD), Brazil’s data watchdog, has barred World, Sam Altman’s digital ID project, from offering rewards to users who enroll in its platform. Brazilian Authorities Ban World Crypto Rewards Program Sam Altman’s World, the proof-of-humanity biometric ID project, is embroiled in a battle against Brazilian authorities. The National Data Protection Authority […]

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Brazilian Data Protection Agency Reveals Investigation Into Iris Scanning World Project

January 21, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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A note issued by the National Data Protection Authority, Brazil’s data protection institution, has announced that it is actively monitoring the activities of World, the project previously known as Worldcoin, in the country. Given the risks associated with processing biometric data, the authority has requested information on the tasks performed by the company. World Faces […]

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