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The Kingdom Of Bhutan Confirms It Has Been Mining Bitcoin For Several Years
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We have independently confirmed that the Canadian RCMP has sent out a blacklist notice to regulated Canadian bitcoin companies telling them to report any activity from 29 bitcoin addresses connected to the Canadian Freedom Convoy, including the HonkHonkHodl fundraiser address.
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The Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act Announced Today in US Senate: Requires Devs to Register Identity and Obtain a License, Censor and Surveil Users, Bans Privacy Tools
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Canadian Government Announces Plan To Use "Emergency Powers" Against Crowdfunding Platforms Including Those That Use Bitcoin
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Bhutan Plans a $500 Million Fund for Bitcoin Mining in the Himalayas
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TESLA CFO ON BITCOIN DURING Q1 EARNINGS CALL
- "bitcoin has been a good decision"
- "a lot of reasons to be optimistic"
- "we do believe long term in the value of bitcoin so it is our intent to hold what we have long term"
full audio and earnings: t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/1748
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Nostr Protocol Surpasses 1 Million Zaps Milestone
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EU Chat Control Law Will Ban Open Source Operating Systems Including All Linux Distros
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Jack Dorsey Provides 14 Bitcoin Grant to Open Source Distributed Communication Protocol 'Nostr' with Goal of Censorship Resistant Twitter Replacement
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Biden Administration Wants To Make It Easier To Seize Bitcoin Without Criminal Charges
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Norwegian energy giant Aker forms bitcoin unit, Seetee, funded with $58 million. It will invest in bitcoin as its treasury asset, invest in bitcoin projects and companies, and set up bitcoin mining operations.
seetee.io/static/shareholder…
archive: t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/1514
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Jack Dorsey’s TBD Presents Bitcoin-based Decentralized Web5
- components include decentralized identifiers (DIDs), decentralized web node (DWNs), self-sovereign identity service (SSIS) and a self-sovereign identity software development kit (ssi-sdk)
bitcoinmagazine.com/business…
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U.S. Senators Upset That Fidelity Investments Offers a Bitcoin 401(k) Retirement Option
- Senators Warren, Durbin, and Smith
durbin.senate.gov/imo/media/…
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BLACKROCK DISCLOSES 14.56% POSITION IN MICROSTRATEGY VALUED AT NEARLY $800 MILLION
money.cnn.com/quote/sharehol…
archive: archive.ph/uH5uD t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/2027
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Bitcoin Exchange Kraken Adds Lightning Network Support for Deposits and Withdrawals
- Rolling out to users in phases
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MARATHON SIGNALS FOR TAPROOT AND APPEARS TO BE BACKING DOWN FROM 'OFAC COMPLIANT' TRANSACTION CENSORSHIP
ir.marathondh.com/news-event…
archive: archive.ph/veVWR t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/1875
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Wasabi Founder states they will start paying a chain surveillance company to analyze bitcoin before coinjoin rounds.
t.me/WasabiWallet/63992
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Leaked Ledger customer database posted publicly on online forum RaidForums
- Over 1,000,000 email addresses
- Over 250,000 physical addresses and phone numbers
raidforums.com/Thread-LEDGER…
archive: archive.vn/RdBtk
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US Treasury hits BitGo with sanctions violations on non custodial wallet
- Settlement of $98830 for 183 apparent violations of sanctions programs
- Complaint claims that BitGo should have done IP address screening
home.treasury.gov/policy-iss…
archive: archive.vn/jpLFD
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Formalized data sharing between exchanges being developed
- Coinbase, BitGo, Gemini, Kraken, and Bittrex
- Share addresses on a "bulletin board" system
- If addresses match then share additional personal data
- Track all transactions greater than $1000
t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/668
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What Terra’s Collapse Teaches About ‘Crypto’ and Bitcoin
- Terra’s design failed to hold in a period of stress
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Guggenheim opens door to bitcoin exposure for $5 billion macro fund via Grayscale GBTC product
- $200+ billion asset-manager
- invests across asset classes on behalf of companies, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds
- up to 10% of NAV in GBTC
… t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/1113
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Digital Currency Group Owes Gemini Users $900M Amid Genesis Insolvency
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Russia Ministry of Finance seeks full disclosure of bitcoin addresses, balances, and transaction history for wallets larger than 100k rubles ($1300)
- Punishment of up to 3 years in prison for non compliance
russian: rbc.ru/crypto/news/5f6c49079…
archive: … t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/852
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Hackers rob thousands of Coinbase customers using SMS 2FA flaw
- 6000 users compromised
- funds and personal info stolen
- including home addresses and transaction history
bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
archive: archive.ph/Chmqx t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/2257
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Gemini Earn Halts Withdrawals Amid Genesis Solvency Concerns: We Recommend All Users Withdraw Funds ASAP
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Ledger Live Tracks and Sends ALL User Information to Outsourced Data Harvesting Service
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Apple iOS Devices Don't Route All Network Traffic Through VPNs
- data leaves the iOS device outside of the VPN tunnel
- apple has allegedly been aware of the issue for years
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US Treasury Adds Ethereum Privacy Tool 'Tornado Cash' to Sanctions List
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Venmo Is Rolling Out Bitcoin Transfers to External Wallets
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Bitcoin Held On Exchanges Hits Five Year Low
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President Nayib Bukele Announces 44 Countries To Meet In El Salvador Today To Discuss Bitcoin
- heads of 32 central banks and 12 financial authorities
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The default Wasabi Wallet coordinator run by zkSNACKs will start blacklisting certain UTXOs, preventing them from participating in coinjoin rounds, due to apparent regulatory pressure.
nitter.net/wasabiwallet/stat…
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Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k
- twitter user names, emails, and phone numbers
- vulnerability was disclosed in January and patched
restoreprivacy.com/twitter-v…
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Argentina's Central Bank Bans Financial Institutions From Offering Bitcoin
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Sparrow Wallet has added whirlpool coinjoin support
- use whirlpool on desktop
- mix directly to cold storage
- transaction privacy analysis before sending
- builds are now reproducible
github.com/sparrowwallet/spa… t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/2243
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Coinbase Sold Surveillance Tools to US Gov
- surveillance tools designed to track digital currency transactions were sold to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in a contract worth up to $1.37M
article: theintercept.com/2022/06/29/…
contract document: techinquiry.org/FOIA/Coinbas…
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Alleged Paxful bitcoin exchange KYC database posted for sale
- 4.8 Million users and employees compromised
- Names, date of birth, gender, address, phone number, email, passwords
raidforums.com/Thread-SELLIN…
archive: archive.ph/Vgf1g t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/1676
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Samourai Wallet Co-Founder Keonne Rodriguez Pleads Not Guilty, Released on $1M Bond
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UPDATES TO LIBSECP256K1 HAVE SPED UP BITCOIN CORE VALIDATION BY ROUGHLY 7%
github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/p…
archive: archive.ph/O5tn9
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Ledger Launches Distributed, KYC-Based, Cloud Seed Recovery Service Then Quickly Deletes It
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Bitcoin Core v25.0 Released
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Bisq v2.1.0: Support Lightning Network as Additional Bitcoin Settlement Method
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OpenSats Announces Support for The Tor Project
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U.S. Internal Revenue Service inks deal with Coinbase for blockchain analytics [surveillance] software
- signing date was July 15
- contract effective on July 23
- one year contract with option to renew for a second year
- $124,950 per year
theblockcrypto.com/linked/71…
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A Protest Planned by Hundreds of Bank Depositors in Central China Seeking Access to Frozen Funds Say Authorities Have Turned Their Health Code Apps Red
- "I can't do anything, I can't go anywhere. You're treated as though you're a criminal. It infringe… reuters.com/world/china/chin…
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African Bitcoin Mining Firm 'Gridless' Raises $2M in Funding Led by Block, Inc. and Stillmark
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UNCONFIRMED REPORTS THAT RENOWNED BITCOINER MIRCEA POPESCU HAS DIED IN COSTA RICA
- As recent as March Popescu claimed to still control over a million bitcoin
crhoy.com/nacionales/turista…
archive: archive.ph/p7IQ9
thewhet.net/2021/06/goodnigh…
archive: archive.ph/ZPKUK
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Bitcoin Node Maker nodl Launches Lightning-Only Product with a focus on merchants in developing countries
- low cost
- full lightning node
- connects to hosted bitcoin core and payment processing resources
bitcoinmagazine.com/business…
archive: archive.ph/aBAwj
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The Financial Action Task Force has released updated bitcoin and "virtual asset" guidance with expanded KYC/AML requirements.
fatf-gafi.org/publications/f…
archive: archive.ph/ZkNN9
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BitMEX Founder Hayes Avoids Prison on Bank Secrecy Charge
- two years probation
- first six months of his sentence in home confinement
- $10M fine
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Ledger adds easy full node support to Ledger Live software with bitcoin core integration
- Simply install most recent version of Ledger Live and add the relevant config details for bitcoin core in settings
support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/…
archive: archive.vn/b29lQ
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Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina’s entire population
- full names, home addresses, birth dates, gender info, government photo IDs
therecord.media/hacker-steal…
archive: archive.ph/oVryG t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/2276
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Peter Thiel-backed Layer1 begins mining bitcoin at its West Texas facility
> The site expects to scale to 200MW within a few months, and aims to capture 30% of total network hashrate by the end of 2021
theblockcrypto.com/post/5633… t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/229
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The Tallycoin bitcoin fundraiser supporting the Canadian Freedom Convoy protests has been voluntarily shutdown by organizers. Known private key holders have transferred funds to new key holders.
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Bisq v2.0.0 Is Now Live
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Venezuela Government Requiring All Bitcoin Miners to Join National Mining Pool
- Registration required
- Control of all reward payouts
spanish: criptonoticias.com/mineria/l…
spanish archive: archive.vn/GRV90
english: coindesk.com/venezuela-legal…
english… t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/849
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Zoltan Pozsar of Credit Suisse: War and Commodity Encumbrance
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CoinCorner Releases The Bolt Card
- world's first offline Lightning contactless card, powered by NFC and LNURL
coincorner.com/TheBoltCard
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Who Benefits From The New York Times' Attacks on Bitcoin?
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Head of Chainalysis Investigations Admits There's No Scientific Evidence Proving Their Surveillance Software Works
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Apparent KYC database leak from MobiKwik in India:
- Database is 8.2 TB and contains 36099759 files. Nearly 3.5 million users' full KYC details. Along with 99224559 user phone numbers, emails, hashed passwords, addresses, bank accounts & card details e… t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/1611
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Twitter Data Breach: Private Data for 400M Users Posted for Sale Including Phone Numbers
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A New Class of ECDSA Signature Vulnerability Observed in the Wild on the Bitcoin Blockchain
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Bull Bitcoin Launches No KYC Bitcoin Purchases with Cash or Debit
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SEC CHAIRMAN DRAWS DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN BITCOIN, CRYPTO IN ASPEN SPEECH
bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/…
archive: archive.ph/6bPN6 t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/2100
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196 Members of Congress Took FTX Money
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Ukraine "legalizes bitcoin" news being circulated without a source is in reference to a four month old bill that was passed but then vetoed by the president. Slight changes were made and approved. It legalizes bitcoin trading on registered exchanges but not as a means of payment.
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Civ Kit: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Market System
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Shitcoin Casino Celsius Network Pauses All Withdrawals Amid Liquidity Issues
- not your keys, not your coins
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Major Bitcoin Banking Partner Prime Trust Has Fired CEO Tom Pageler
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Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev to Remain in Jail Until at Least Late February: Held Without Charges Since August
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Swan Bitcoin Partners with BitGo to Create USA's First Bitcoin-Only Trust Company
nobsbitcoin.com/swan-bitcoin…
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Congressman Warren Davidson introduces bill to protect private bitcoin usage
pdf: t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/2506
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Rust BIP47 Library
- implements the BIP47 standard and provides functionality for generating static payment codes that two parties can use to create a private payment address space between them
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Major Bitcoin Mining Pool With 10% of Hash Rate, 'Poolin', Appears to be Insolvent: Withdrawals Have Been Frozen
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The EU Commission is planning automatic scanning of your private communication
- total surveillance in the name of child protection
- would be the worst surveillance apparatus outside of China
tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-s…
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New website comparing bitcoin exchange options that don't require KYC
> kycnot.me is a simple yet useful webpage. It lists trusted Exchanges where you can buy / trade Bitcoin or Monero. You can easily compare and decide what's best for you.
kycnot.me/
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Hubspot Data Leak Impacted Up To 30 Cryptocurrency Companies
- hubspot is customer relationship management service
- NYDIG, Swan, BlockFi, Nifty Gateway and Pantera Capital have notified users
- majority affected seem to have not notified users
hubspot.com/en-us/march-2022…
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Wasabi Wallet team explains its decision to censor certain Bitcoin UTXOs from using its coinjoin coordinator
- was voluntary
- there is no current legislation obliging them to do so
bitcoinmagazine.com/business…
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RoboSats Admin Banned From Telegram, Communications Moved to Matrix, SimpleX & Nostr
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Exxon Weighs Taking Gas-to-Bitcoin Pilot to Four Countries
- Exxon Mobil Corp. is running a pilot program using excess natural gas that would otherwise be burned off from North Dakota oil wells to power bitcoin mining operations
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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US Supreme Court Sharply Curtails the Authority of the EPA to Regulate Greenhouse-gas Emissions That Cause Climate Change
- gives more power to state governments
- reduces the ability for federal government to regulate bitcoin mining
supremecourt.gov/opinions/21…
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Bitcoin Education Is Launching For 40 High Schools In Argentina
- The Schools and Bitcoin Project
- Starting with 4000 students across 40 high schools
bitcoinmagazine.com/business…
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All v3 Onion Addresses Down After Attack On The Tor Network
> For a few hours today all v3 onion addresses on the Tor network were down. This appears to be a new kind of attack which affects the entire network and involves overloading the consensus aut… t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/1246
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An Argument Against KYC Bitcoin That Everyone Can Understand
- KYC Creates Honeypots Of User Information
- KYC Gives Rise To A Permissioned Social System
bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/…
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700 MILLION USERS EXPOSED IN NEW LINKEDIN DATA LEAK
- Names
- Emails
- Usernames
- Phone numbers
- Physical addresses
- Geolocation records
- Personal and professional experience
restoreprivacy.com/linkedin-…
archive: archive.ph/CyFIe t.me/nobullshitbitcoin/1969
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