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Tornado Cash Activity: $62 million has been withdrawn post-sanctions, corresponding to around 15% of the value locked in Tornado Cash.
https://nitter.net/TheBlockRes/status/1558093591662280707
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BlackRock Launches Bitcoin Private Trust
* offers customers 'direct bitcoin exposure' * blackrock is the largest asset manager in the world with over $10 trillion under management https://www.blackrock.com/institutions/en-us/insights/bitcoin-private-trust archive: https://archive.ph/9c08F
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Data Breach at Email Communication Provider Klaviyo Exposes Customer Details of 44 Companies, Including Swan
* first name, email, IP-based geolocation data of customers stolen https://www.klaviyo.com/blog/august-2022-security-incident archive: https://archive.ph/r8O31
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Motiv Inc. Launches 16 Circular Bitcoin Economies In Peru
* Motiv provides educational resources teaching underdeveloped communities how to use bitcoin to create their own economies * The region has 80% smartphone penetration, making room for bitcoin adoption https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/motiv-launches-16-bitcoin-economies-in-peru archive: https://archive.ph/uYBGw
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A Joint Proposal by the SEC and the CFTC Would Require Large Hedge Funds to Report Cryptocurrency Exposure Through a Confidential Filing Known as Form PF
* applies to funds with more than $500M of net assets https://www.wsj.com/articles/regulators-weigh-asking-hedge-funds-to-report-crypto-exposure-11660140000 archive: https://archive.ph/BvxlW
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Effortless Inbound Channel Opening for Voltage Nodes
* with the click of one button, all users running a Voltage node may claim 500k sats of inbound liquidity from the main Voltage node https://voltage.cloud/blog/feature-updates/effortless-inbound-channel-opening-for-voltage-nodes/ archive: https://archive.ph/6pRN2
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CoinCenter: U.S. Treasury Sanction of Privacy Tools Places Sweeping Restrictions on All Americans
* sanctioned Tornado Cash smart contract is a tool, not a person https://www.coincenter.org/u-s-treasury-sanction-of-privacy-tools-places-sweeping-restrictions-on-all-americans/ archive: https://archive.ph/jVGAd
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SMS Service Provider Twilio Compromised
* Twilio handles communications for 150k+ corporate clients including Facebook and Uber * Data collected by Twilio includes addresses, payment details, IP addresses, and in some cases proof of identity https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/08/twilio-breach-customer-data/ archive: https://archive.ph/eFvWr
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Tornado Cash Github Repo Taken Down, Lead Dev's Account Frozen
* the move follows the ethereum privacy tool being added to the US sanctions list earlier today https://nitter.net/semenov_roman_/status/1556717890308653059 archive: https://archive.ph/tXDBr
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US Treasury Adds Ethereum Privacy Tool 'Tornado Cash' to Sanctions List
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20220808 archive: https://archive.ph/m7RUn
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Owner of No-KYC Exchange BTC-e Extradited to the US
* after more than five years of litigation, Russian national Alexander Vinnik was extradited from Greece yesterday https://darknetlive.com/post/btc-e-owner-extradited-to-united-states/ archive: https://archive.ph/JpMCA
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