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Arthur Hayes, Co-Founder of BitMEX & CIO at Maelstrom, venture fund managed by his family office, announced a grant program to support open-source Bitcoin developers.

Today, a verdict was handed down against Craig Wright in the COPA vs CSW trial. Judge Mellor ruled that Wright’s behavior warrants a referral to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a possible criminal investigation on charges of perjury and forgery of documents.

OpenSats, a non-profit organization that supports open-source Bitcoin and freedom tech projects, announced its fifth wave of Nostr grants today.

A judge has granted a delay in the trial of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm in the United States. Meanwhile, in Europe, fellow Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev must prepare for his appeal in prison after a Dutch court denied his bail request.

Relai, a Swiss-based app for buying bitcoin directly to self-custody, announced that all users must verify their accounts by October 31, 2024.

The co-founder and former chief technology officer (CTO) of Paxful Inc., Artur Schaback, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to fail to maintain an effective anti-money laundering (AML) program.

Bitcoin exchange and derivative trading platform BitMEX pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act by "willfully failing to establish, implement, and maintain an adequate anti-money laundering (AML) program."

William Lonergan Hill, co-founder and developer of Samourai Wallet, made his first public court appearance in the US Department of Justice’s (DoJ) case against Samourai Wallet developers.

Block announced an agreement to supply Core Scientific with its 3-nanometer (3nm) mining ASICs representing approximately 15 EH/s (exahashes per second) of hashrate.

"We believe that high-quality educational resources should be available to anyone interested in learning about Bitcoin. Free and open, as it should be," OpenSats said.

The US Government has agreed to release Samourai Wallet founder William Lonergan Hill (TDev) on bail, according to a letter filed on July 3rd, reports L0la L33tz for The Rage.

AU10TIX, an Israel-based ID verification and compliance platform hired to verify user identities at X (formerly Twitter) last September, left a set of administrative credentials exposed for over 18 months, according to cybersecurity researchers at spiderSilk, who broke the story to 404 Media.