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"The factual allegations of unlicensed money transmission are in conflict with FinCEN's longstanding guidance that an 'anonymizing software provider is not a money transmitter,'" Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburgh said.

Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm and Roman Semenov were charged with money laundering and sanctions violations tied to their work with the privacy mixer. The DOJ has already arrested Storm.

"Bitcoin Atlantis will gather the main leading voices in Bitcoin for a three-day conference in Madeira, in the middle of the Atlantic."

"ProtonMail often touts its Swiss jurisdiction and privacy guarantees, but at the same time, it is complying with a record number of data request orders going through the Swiss legal system."

Argentina’s president hopeful Javier Milei, who won the preliminary elections last Sunday with 30% of the votes, pledged to close the nation’s central bank while saying he would follow El Salvador's model and enable competition between currencies.

"The freedom tech will continue until morale improves."

Spiral renewed a grant to designer and UX researcher Mogashni Naidoo for testing the UX Research Toolkit she built.

Custodian BitGo announced $100M Series C financing from outside strategic investors with a valuation of $1.75B. The funds will be deployed to make strategic acquisitions and expand its secure and regulated custody, wallet, and infrastructure solutions globally.

CleanSpark and Marathon Digital switched on significant hash rate in July.

"Josi will receive long-term support from OpenSats for his continued work on Bitcoin Core," as well as his contributions to the libbitcoinkernel project and BIP-352: Silent Payments, OpenSats announced.

"Orange Pill App, a social networking platform designed to foster real-world connections among Bitcoin enthusiasts, announced a successful raise of $250,000 in pre-seed funding."