The founders of Samourai Wallet were arrested under unregulated money transmision and laundering charges by the U.S. Attorney's Office og the Southern District of NY.
A pair of U.S. senators have introduced a new crypto bill to Congress, designed to regulate dollar-pegged stablecoins, and described as a "huge disaster" by one expert...
The 2nd Annual Bitcoin FilmFest in Warsaw coincided with the bitcoin halving at block 840,000, an important event where the rewards for mining bitcoin are cut in half.
Some think that a CBDC done "right" will spur competition and innovation while protecting privacy and freedom. No form of a CBDC will accomplish these tasks.
The IRS has released a draft of Form 1099-DA. The form is the next step in efforts to bolster crypto tax reporting and follows proposed regulations published last year.
Roughly every four years Bitcoin halves. It's part of Bitcoin’s design, helping to reduce crypto introduction. This impacts Rune, Layer1s and Layer2s like Polygon.
Taproot uses clever Merkle tree structures and new signatures to hide all this information from the blockchain, and instead operates at the wallet and node level.