Coin Center: RESTRICT Act Creates Blanket Authority With Few Checks To Ban Just About Anything
Coin Center, the leading non-profit focused on the policy issues, shared their view on the RESTRICT act.
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MercadoLibre Enables Bitcoin Trading in Chile
MercadoLibre is the largest ecommerce platform in Latin America.
BIP-327 Merged: MuSig2 for BIP340-compatible Multi-Signatures
MuSig2 is a multi-signature scheme that allows multiple signers to create a single aggregate public key and cooperatively create ordinary Schnorr signatures valid under the aggregate public key.
Paxful Refunds Its Customers 8.8 BTC Lost In Celsius Collapse
The funds will be transferred to Paxful wallets this week.
Verichains Discovers Critical Key Extraction Attacks in TSS for MPC Wallets and Digital Asset Custody: Native Bitcoin MultiSig Not Affected
Verichains announced that it discovered critical Key Extraction Attacks in many popular Threshold Signature Scheme (TSS) implementations, a Multi-Party Computing (MPC) protocol.
Texas Senate Bill Seeks To Restrict Demand Response Arrangements
Bill authors want to slash Bitcoin mining incentives in the state.
Bitstamp Closes Services in Canada with 3 Days Notice
Bitstamp, one of the oldest centralized bitcoin exchanges, is seemingly closing services to Canadian customers.
Route Blinding Has Been Merged Into The Lightning Spec
Route blinding is a technique to increase the privacy of Lightning Network transactions.
SATSx Hackathon 2023: Quick Summary of Projects
The SATSx Hackathon successfully united 11 innovative projects, with two of them notably showcasing Bitcoin payments via wireless mesh networking.
New EU AML Rules May Seek KYC Checks For Commercial Bitcoin Payments Over €1000
Lawmakers on two key committees in the European Parliament have voted in favor of imposing limits on payments by unverified bitcoin and crypto users.
MicroStrategy Fully Repays Its $205M Silvergate Loan, Buys Another 6,455 BTC
The company's bitcoin-collateralized loan of $205M was repaid in full at a 22% discount.
RESTRICT Act: A Sweeping National Security 'TikTok Ban' Bill Includes $250K Fine If You Access A 'Banned' Site or Service
The RESTRICT Act is spearheaded by Sen. Mark R. Warner and Sen. John Thune.