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PortuguêsThe Takeaway: Blockchain analytics companies tend to flag funds moving to and from private crypto wallets, with self-custody said to be the next fault line for crypto regulations. One such…
Continue ReadingThe Takeaway: Out of a list of 26 crypto exchanges domiciled in the Republic of Seychelles, approximately half have poor know-your-customer (KYC) procedures, according to blockchain tracking firm CipherTrace. Analysis…
Continue ReadingDarknet markets are having a rough 2020. COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on all shipping-centric industries, drug sellers included. Criminologist Andréanne Bergeron estimates that only 21% of darknet market transactions resulted…
Continue ReadingRecent rumors about U.S. regulation of private, self-hosted crypto wallets have some compelling context. For example, the proposal submitted last month by U.S. authorities to lower the anti-money laundering (AML)…
Continue ReadingMonero (XMR) has been one of the main privacy technologies in the crypto space for many years now. Unlike what many think, Bitcoin is actually easy to track if a…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency intelligence firm Ciphertrace has filed two patent applications for tools and systems to trace monero transactions. The company aims to enable the detection of criminal uses of privacy coins…
Continue ReadingCrypto analytics firm CipherTrace announced on Friday that it had filed two patents for technology capable of tracing transactions for privacy coin Monero. In a Nov. 20 blog from CipherTrace,…
Continue ReadingThe Financial Action Task Force (FATF) needs an entirely new approach when it comes to policing crypto, according to Sian Jones, the driving force behind much of the sector’s anti-money…
Continue ReadingBlockchain forensics firm CipherTrace has published comprehensive guidance to assist law enforcement officials in identifying signs of cryptocurrency use when carrying out criminal investigations. The report notes that the U.S.…
Continue ReadingThe exploding decentralized finance (DeFi) space is now firmly on the radar of regulators and concerns are growing that it could become a magnet for criminal or nefarious activity, according…
Continue ReadingThe United States Internal Revenue Services (IRS) has offered a bounty of up to $625,000 to anyone who can break purportedly untraceable privacy coins like Monero (XMR) as well as…
Continue ReadingFinancial institutions worldwide have reported 134,500 suspicious transactions concerning virtual currencies in the past two years — but that’s just the tip of the iceberg according to a report published…
Continue ReadingReports in the past few weeks detail that bad actors are targeting two privacy coin projects, Monero and Zcash, adding to concerns about the growing rate of security incidents involving…
Continue ReadingA spate of exchange delistings has pushed privacy coins further to the fringes of cryptocurrency. The likes of Monero, Komodo, Bytecoin, and ZCoin have all felt the pinch of regulatory…
Continue ReadingThe blockchain surveillance firm Ciphertrace claims to have created the “world’s first” monero tracing tools for law enforcement. According to the company announcement, Ciphertrace developed forensic tools for the U.S.…
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