Freddie New, head of policy at Bitcoin Policy UK, a UK-based Bitcoin think tank and advocacy group, speaks to what’s in our immediate power when it comes to preserving our privacy online, including when transacting with Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin Policy Institute of India has announced its launch on India’s Independence Day to highlight the notion that true freedom comes with the type of financial and economic sovereignty that Bitcoin provides.
In the wake of the Tornado Cash verdict and the Samourai Wallet developers' plea deal, Peter Van Valkenburgh, executive director of Coin Center, a nonprofit organization focused on Bitcoin and crypto policy issues, believes that President Trump’s vision of making the United States the crypto capital of the world might not be truly fulfilled.
Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm has been found guilty of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, while the jury wasn’t unanimous on the other two counts that the developer faced.
After three days of deliberation, many, including myself, are anxious for a verdict in the Tornado Cash trial, but the fact that it’s taking so long for the members of the jury to arrive at one may be a good sign for the defense.
Learn more about what's happening and what's at stake in the Tornado Cash trial from Amanda Tuminelli, a former criminal defense lawyer with a deep understanding of U.S. money-transmission law.
15 months after being charged with conspiring to commit money laundering and conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, the Samourai Wallet founders have pled guilty to the latter charge.
Dr. Matthew J. Edman, a specialist in cybersecurity and crypto investigations, detailed for the court how Tornado Cash works and challenged certain claims made by two of the prosecution’s witnesses.
IRS Special Agent Stephan George’s testimony regarding some of Hanfeng Lin’s stolen funds having been put through Tornado Cash seemed credible enough to inhibit the defense from submitting a motion for a mistrial.
A team that helps operate the Orphans of Uganda Children’s Center, which runs in part on international bitcoin donations, took the orphans on a field trip to the zoo on Bitcoin Pizza Day to to show them that anything is possible, much like Laszlo Hanyecz did when he bought two pizzas with bitcoin 15 years ago.
