The United States’ Financial Crimes Enforcement Network released a proposed rule change this October that lowered the threshold for Travel Rule information sharing and retention from...
DeFi’s growth this year has been staggering. Towards the start of the year, DeFi’s total value locked (TVL) had managed to hit the $1 billion mark....
While most crypto-users have welcomed regulations that are now being developed for the digital assets market, it hasn’t always been smooth sailing when governments and regulatory...
Bitcoin’s darknet ambitions have changed since Silk Road During its early days, before Bitcoin became “fool’s gold” for get-rich-quick investors, it was used as the main...
Darknet transactions are so intrinsic to the Bitcoin ecosystem that to think of Bitcoin without such transactions would be to violate the core features of what...
Sextortion is a fairly new word. Much like ‘selfies’ and ‘memes’ sextortion is an addition to the English language because of the growth of technology. But...
Cryptocurrencies, since the conception of Bitcoin, seem to have adopted the persona of a libertarian rebel, in comparison to fiat currencies and other traditional financial assets...
North Korea has been subject to a Financial Action Task Force [FATF] call to protect the international financial system from the ongoing risk of money laundering...
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin still haven’t fully recovered from their perceived ties to the darknet and Silk Road. While users and early adopters of cryptocurrencies turned...
One of the biggest concerns for governments and traditional investors across the world regarding cryptocurrencies is the popular misconception that these have the potential to facilitate...