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EU Warns Malta of the Dangers of Ignoring Money Laundering
Having attracted millions in crypto money to its island, Malta has been taking steps to limit the risk of crypto crimes.
Debunking Bitcoin Myths: “It’s Only for Criminals”
Bitcoin can be quite useful for criminals, much like physical cash. However, the permissionless nature of Bitcoin also enables other valuable use cases for this new technology.
How a Bitcoin Whitehat Hacker Helped the FBI Catch a Murderer
An ethical hacker breached the database of a phony darknet website offering hitman services and leaked the data. The information from the data dump...
FBI: Hackers Extorted $28 Million in Cryptocurrencies Last Year
On June 22, the Federal Bureau of Investigation presented its annual Internet Crime Report for the year of 2016. The FBI analyzed the victim...
More Mainstream Use Cases Needed to Secure Bitcoin’s Legitimacy
Blockchain technologies like the one that underpins Bitcoin are gaining wide acceptance across industry sectors from finance to healthcare to real estate. Bitcoin itself,...
Danish Police Can Now Catch Criminals Who Used Bitcoin
Bitcoin was never really anonymous, and it seems the Danish police have caught on to that fact. According to reports by Danish newspaper Berlingske,...
Sandia National Laboratories Joins the War on Bitcoin Anonymity
The Sandia National Laboratories, a major United States Department of Energy research and development facility, with campuses in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Livermore, California,...
Bruce Fenton: Blockchain Alliance is a Profoundly Bad Idea
It was announced earlier this week that a significant group of prominent Bitcoin companies, individuals and institutions have united in a “Blockchain Alliance.” This...
The Future of Smart Contracts: Positive Social Innovation or Criminal Activity?
Smart contracts, a feature of “Bitcoin 2.0” technologies such as Ethereum, could empower criminals with sophisticated trustless collaboration means, the prestigious MIT Technology Reviewreports.Cornell University...
The Future of Smart Contracts: Positive Social Innovation or Criminal Activity?
Smart contracts, a feature of “Bitcoin 2.0” technologies such as Ethereum, could empower criminals with sophisticated trustless collaboration means, the prestigious MIT Technology Reviewreports.Cornell University...
