Updates on court cases, legal frameworks, and compliance issues shaping the Bitcoin space.
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57.55 BTC tied to Samourai Wallet was transferred to Coinbase Prime and ended up in a Coinbase hot wallet. That wallet now has a 0 balance.
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Criminals have increasingly turned to kidnapping, torturing, and threatening digital asset holders in real life; some attacks involve guns, mutilation, and murder as digital theft turns violently physical.
Lichtenstein stole nearly 120,000 BTC in 2016 (worth $71M then and over $10B today), with about 25,000 coins still missing despite a major DOJ recovery.
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Only about 30% of miners are registered, and authorities say underground farms caused power shortages and 1.3B rubles in electricity losses.
The scam began with a fake pop-up notification, used Bitcoin ATMs and gold couriers, and led to arrests of suspects on expired visas.
The CRA used a rare court order to obtain data on 2,500 Dapper Labs users, highlighting difficulties in identifying digital asset taxpayers.
Masked intruders posed as mail carriers, waterboarded the parents, and threatened their daughter during a 13-hour ordeal to force access to bitcoin accounts.
JPMorgan flagged unspecified “concerning activity,” leaving Jack Mallers saying the bank repeatedly told him, “We aren’t allowed to tell you,” intensifying Bitcoin community backlash.
Agents found clusters of Bitmain rigs operating near U.S. military and energy sites, prompting chip-level inspections for covert access risks.
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🔍 FinCEN Director confirms plan to finalize the “mixer rule”, labeling common Bitcoin privacy tools as money laundering risks.
