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A dual Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison and forced to "pay a forfeiture money judgment" of around $395.5 million for his alleged operation of the "longest-running bitcoin money laundering service on the darknet."

OP_NEXT is a technical and workshop-heavy conference exploring Bitcoin softforks. It takes place at the Fidelity Center For Applied Technology in Boston, MA.

Donald J. Trump has officially secured a victory, becoming the 47th President of the United States. He is set to begin his second term on January 20th, 2025.

Europe's largest telecommunications provider is launching a Bitcoin mining pilot called 'Digital Monetary Photosynthesis', developed by Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiary MMS in collaboration with Bankhaus Metzler. The project aims to provide data for stabilizing Germany's energy grids.

OpenSats, a non-profit dedicated to funding free and open-source Bitcoin and broader freedom tech developers, announced the eighth wave of Nostr grants to five Nostr projects: Formstr, Groups, Coop, Nostrability, and the NIP-44 Libraries audit.

Localhost Research is a new Bitcoin-focused research center in the Bay area with a pending 501(c)(3) application. The organization will provide full-time employment and benefits, and foster a collaborative office culture with shared projects and group research efforts.

"OpenSats is proud to announce its eighth wave of Bitcoin grants, dedicated to supporting innovative open-source projects that enhance the growth and resilience of the Bitcoin ecosystem," announced the organization.

The new bill is expected to be presented to the Danish Parliament in early 2025, with the country's Tax Law Council recommending that the rules should not be implemented before January 1, 2026, at the earliest.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin criticized MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor's view that concerns over regulated bitcoin custody were mainly from "paranoid crypto-anarchists."

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) announced it has invested nearly $25 million (€23 million) in 60 global open-source technologies over the past two years. During this time, it received over 500 submissions proposing more than €114 million in work.

A new research paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis suggests that governments can either tax or ban "fixed supply private-sector bubble assets that are not a claim to any real resources" to ensure the long-term viability of large and permanent budget deficits.

After more than 10 years of service, Dutch bitcoin-only exchange BL3P will be shutting down on December 20th, 2024.