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"For years, a gang operating in New York allegedly offered a cash-for-Bitcoin service that generated at least $30 million, with men standing on street corners with plastic shopping bags full of money, drive-by pickups, and hundreds of thousands of dollars laid out on tables."

In part 4 of Follow The Money documentary series by Peter McCormack, he travels to Buenos Aires to understand Argentina's history of inflation, the damage it has caused the country and the tools people have to survive a collapsing currency.

"There might be a lesson in terms of bitcoin protocol deployment, we might have to get them right at first try. Little second chance to fix them in flight," said developer Antoine Riard.

The agency proposed designating 'crypto mixing' as an area of “primary money laundering concern" in order to impose certain recordkeeping and reporting requirements on involved transactions. The public will have 90 days to comment.

"Gleb has been active in the Bitcoin Core repository since 2018, contributing to and reviewing various features and code improvements ever since. His focus, both as a researcher and as a developer, lies mostly on the P2P aspects of Bitcoin Core."

"We are happy to announce 12 new grants for open-source projects in the nostr ecosystem."

Twitter's 'Not a Bot' program has been rolled out for new accounts on web in New Zealand and the Philippines.

Police body cam footage shows the Silk Road hacker James 'Jimmy' Zhong opening up his laptop with thousands of BTC on it in front of federal investigators, not realizing he was incriminating himself, revealed CNBC investigation.

"End of last year (December 2022), amid technical discussions on eltoo payment channels and incentives compatibility of the mempool anti-DoS rules, a new transaction-relay jamming attack affecting lightning channels was discovered."

New tax proposal aims to extend reporting requirements for brokers as well as expand the definition of a broker to include anyone who “knows or is in a position to know the identity of the party that makes the sale and the nature of the transaction." Public comments are accepted until October 30.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a 'crypto' licensing bill which is set to take effect in July 2025.

October 13 was the deadline for the SEC to lodge an appeal against the court decision regarding Grayscale Bitcoin Spot ETF but the agency chose to pass the option.