A former contractor for the Australian government’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization has been sentenced to 300 hours of community service after pleading guilty to using the agency’s supercomputers to mine cryptocurrency, according to CryptoNewsPipe.com. Authorities said Jonathan Khoo gained access to the organization’s...
Dapper Labs will be partnering with peer-to-peer firm Circle to help add payment methods for digital collectibles using credit and debit card payments to settle in the stablecoin USD Coin (USDC), according to a blog post from Circle. Up to now, paying for digital collectibles...
The Treasury Department has sanctioned two individuals from Russia for their alleged participation in a purported complicated phishing effort, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 16) press release. According to the release, the two people are also the subjects of an indictment that was made public...
India intends to propose legislation prohibiting digital currency trading, while other economies in Asia have opted to regulate the market, Bloomberg Qint reported. It is anticipated that the India federal cabinet will talk about the legislation prior to the time it moves to parliament, the...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a complaint in a Texas U.S. District Court against four people for allegedly “fraudulently soliciting funds” from individuals to attempt to wager on changes in the price of bitcoin, according to a press release. Three individuals from Texas and...
The United States may have some of the world’s best cryptographers working for the National Security Agency and other spy shops, but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is crowdsourcing at least part of its effort to beat the algorithms that cloak information about certain cryptocurrencies....
When it comes to bitcoin, Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey is all in. The 43-year-old technology entrepreneur, who also heads Square, the mobile payment company, said the cryptocurrency rules. “I think the internet warrants a…native currency and…bitcoin is probably the best manifestation of that...
Square has announced the rollout of the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA), according to a web post. It’s inviting others in the crypto community to join the alliance. Members must agree to not use their digital currency patents against another entity with the exclusion of...
Blockchain firm Digital Currency Group (DCG) has bought the Luno cryptocurrency exchange, which it will keep running as an independent subsidiary, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 9) announcement. DCG first backed the company six years ago during its seed round. “We are proud to have...
