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"The U.S. government continues to make progress in prosecuting individuals involved in the Bitfinex security breach and in seizing funds associated with the theft," Bitfinex said.

The F.B.I. searched the home of Kraken founder Jesse Powell in March as part of a criminal investigation into claims that he hacked and cyber-stalked a nonprofit that he founded.

"A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed. "

Someone is reportedly attempting to exploit recently reported vulnerability that may still be present on various Lightning services.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who used to call Bitcoin an “index of money laundering,” said that Bitcoin is “digitalizing gold” in a Fox Business interview on Wednesday.

Bitwage is a leading provider of Bitcoin payroll solutions that enables people to receive their paycheck in BTC.

Huobi accidentally exposed a set of credentials that enabled access to the crypto exchange’s cloud storage, putting user data at risk for prolonged period of time.

The country's government announced it is working on legislation to make it illegal to perform peer-to-peer Bitcoin transactions.

Kraken was ordered by a judge to hand over information on any user who surpassed $20k trading volume on any given year from 2016 to 2020.

"The North Carolina House of Representatives has passed House Bill 721, which includes provisions to study the acquisition and potential benefits of virtual currency, with a specific focus on Bitcoin."

Slovak parliament has accepted a new law lowering tax rate for the fiat profits from Bitcoin sales to just 7%. Until now the profits were taxed by a rate of 36-39% (together with variable health insurance fees).

Tether has signed a MOU with the government of Georgia, Bitfinex launched its P2P platform in Venezuela, Argentina and Colombia, and both companies provided funding for Qubes OS.