The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against Behrouz Parsarad for running Nemesis, a darknet marketplace that sold illegal drugs. As part of these actions, OFAC has also blacklisted 49 crypto addresses, including 44 for Bitcoin and 5 for Monero, connected to the operation. Founder Accused of […]
Australian authorities have charged Brendan Gunn, the brother of breakdancer Raygun, for his purported role in a crypto-related fraud scheme. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced that Gunn is facing one count of dealing with money suspected to be the proceeds of crime. The Alleged Illegal Operations According to a March 5 statement, […]
This week, the crypto market, led by bitcoin (BTC), received positive news and reacted accordingly. However, the reaction was short-lived, and the entire field has returned to stagnation and negative trajectories. A weekly report from the market analytics platform CryptoQuant revealed that real spot demand for BTC is still in contraction territory, while bitcoin’s apparent […]
Iris Ramaya Au, a 35-year-old Irvine resident and former girlfriend of a self-proclaimed cryptocurrency fraudster known as “The Godfather,” has agreed to plead guilty to a federal tax charge for failing to report more than $2.6 million in illicit income tied to her ex-boyfriend’s criminal activities. Au faces a single felony count of subscribing to […]
Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 network Base has announced acquiring the development team behind Iron Fish, a privacy-focused blockchain project. The latest move aims to boost privacy features within Base. The acquisition focuses on integrating the expertise of Iron Fish’s team and does not involve the Iron Fish blockchain or its native token, both of which will […]
President Donald Trump hosted the first White House Digital Asset Summit on Friday, with a handful of major crypto executives and relevant members of his administration. Trump repeated his promises from his Thursday executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and to never sell America’s Bitcoin. “From this day on, America will follow the […]
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has conducted a second interview from prison, once again drawing controversy and causing repercussions for his crisis management team. The interview, hosted by Tucker Carlson and posted on social media on Bankman-Fried’s 33rd birthday, took even his own public relations representative, Mark Botnick, by surprise. […]
Around 29,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, March. 7, and they have a notional value of roughly $2.5 billion. This week’s event is much smaller than last week’s end-of-month expiry, but a mammoth end-of-quarter contract expiry is due on March 28. The impact on spot markets is likely to be minimal as all […]
According to VanEck’s February crypto report, Solana’s decentralized exchange (DEX) volumes have shown resilience despite declining meme coin trading. The report shows that Solana’s trading activity briefly surpassed that of the Ethereum ecosystem, including its Layer 1 (L1) and Layer 2 (L2) networks. Solana Maintains High Trading Activity VanEck’s analysts revealed that the price of […]
Michael Saylor, founder of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), has said that a Bitcoin strategic reserve will position the United States as a leader in cyberspace. In an interview with Fox News Channel, Saylor argued that Bitcoin is a secure means of savings for individuals, companies, and governments. Bitcoin Will Take The U.S. to Cyberspace Saylor, whose […]