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Year: 2024

New Seychelles rule puts brakes on VASPs without local presence

The Seychelles National Assembly has approved a bill aimed at regulating Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs). Minister of Finance Naadir Hassan presented the bill, which is part of Seychelles’ broader strategy to address risks associated with virtual assets and VASPs….

Tether Mints Another $1 Billion USDT on Tron Network

Tether mints 1 billion USDT on Tron, bringing the total number of tokens minted in the past year to 33 billion.

3 Reasons Why Bitcoin Won’t Be ‘Boring’ in September

Although Bitcoin failed to close above the psychological $60,000 level on the weekly chart, long-term holders (LTHs) continue to adopt a bullish strategy going into 2024.

Kamala Harris Pushes For Gensler As Next Treasury Secretary: Bad News For Crypto?

Talks of Vice President Kamala Harris offering the Treasury Secretary position for SEC Chairman Gary Gensler has responses coming in from both sides of the aisle. While most everyone believes he would be a very strong nominee for the position,…

BlastUP token lists on Bitget and MEXC, unlocking new opportunities

BLASTUP token gets listed on Bitget and MEXC, with trading starting August 20. Bitget offers staking rewards and a giveaway of 572,143 BLASTUP tokens. 30% of BLASTUP supply burned, boosting scarcity and potential price increase. BlastUP launchpad platform, the first…

Curve Founder Michael Egorov Proposes $21M CRV Funding for Swiss Stake AG

Michael Egorov’s proposal calls for new financing for Swiss Stake AG, the organization building Curve. Curve founder says $21 million CRV grant will help fund the DeFi protocol’s research and development projects. Community members have criticized the proposal’s lack of…

Hackers with ties to IRGC transform malware into a monolithic Trojan

An Iranian state-level APT turns back the clock by consolidating its modular backdoor into a monolithic PowerShell Trojan. Recently TA453 (also known as APT42, CharmingCypress, Mint Sandstorm, Phosphorus, Yellow Garuda) was added, which largely overlaps with Charming catlaunched a phishing…

Distance Metric Learning for Outlier Detection

An outlier detection method that determines a relevant distance metric between records Outliers are often defined as the items in a dataset that are very different than the majority of the other items. That is: any record that is significantly different…

Whale Raises $118 Million in Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) Amid Controversy

The whale acquired 347 Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) in just 12 hours on August 19. BitGo plans to transfer control of WBTC to a joint venture between BitGo, BiT Global, and the Tron ecosystem. Coinbase has hinted at the launch of…

Probability of guessing names on talk radio

A few years ago I made an interactive chart that guessed your name as you typed it. It took into account your gender and year of birth. For some reason it gained some momentum this month and ended up on…