#digital-currency — Public Fediverse posts

Digitaler Euro: Datenschützer fordern echtes digitales Bargeld statt #Überwachung | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Digitaler-Euro-Datenschuetzer-fordern-echtes-digitales-Bargeld-statt-Ueberwachung-11293892.html #Datenschutz #privacy #surveillance #ElectronicCash #Digitalisierung #digitalization #DigitalEuro #DigitalCurrency #DigitalCurrencies

The Record North Shore: 6 face federal charges for crypto-seeking Winnetka home invasion. “In a Tuesday press release, the attorney’s office wrote that the six men — one of whom is Isaiah Duke, also known as Chicago rapper Lil Zay Osama — face robbery and kidnapping conspiracy charges for the incident on March 8, when several armed individuals stormed into a Winnetka home in the 700 block […]

Visa expands stablecoin support but everyday use still isn’t there

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/visa-stablecoin-support/

Ars Technica: Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage. “Crypto scammers are targeting the thousands of ships stranded near the Strait of Hormuz—and at least one ship that faced Iranian gunfire may have been tricked into believing it had paid Iran for safe passage.”

Reuters: New York sues Coinbase and Gemini Titan, calls their prediction markets illegal gambling. “New York’s attorney general sued Coinbase Financial Markets and Gemini Titan on Tuesday, claiming their prediction markets violate state laws against illegal gambling.”

Wall Street Journal: Trump’s crypto luncheon draws ‘superstars.’ But his token hovers near low . This link goes to an MSN-syndicated article and has no paywall. “President Trump feted the biggest holders of his namesake memecoin on Saturday, cheering on a crypto market still fighting through a monthslong slump. In a wide-ranging address from his Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump touched on […]

CNN: US freezes $344 million in cryptocurrency said to be linked to Iran. “The Trump administration has frozen $344 million in cryptocurrency it says was linked to Iran as the United States ratchets up pressure on Tehran. The move, first reported by CNN, comes as shaky diplomatic efforts to reach a deal to end the war continue to stall and the global economy reels from its impact.”

🤣 Oh wow, a #tokenomics calculator that’s about as useful as a screen door on a submarine! Let’s all pretend we're shocked that a 45% #inflation in digital Monopoly money is actually a thing—guess those anonymous submissions are just lining up to make sense of this 🚀🔍.
https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard #digitalcurrency #meme #humor #submarine #HackerNews #ngated

Reuters: World Liberty investor Justin Sun claims Trump crypto venture ‘secretly’ installed tool to freeze user holdings. “A major investor in U.S. President Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto venture has claimed that the firm ‘secretly’ implemented a tool to unilaterally freeze and restrict private holdings of its WLFI token.”

Local News Matters Bay Area: 10 crypto firm execs, employees charged in alleged scheme to manipulate token prices. “Ten executives and employees from four cryptocurrency trading firms were charged Monday in federal court in Oakland in connection with alleged schemes to inflate digital token prices and trading activity through fraudulent ‘wash trading,’ federal prosecutors said.”

The Guardian: World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam. To the tune of Master Ninja Theme Song: VIRAL CRYPTO DEATH SCAM “At 194 years old, Jonathan the giant tortoise was a youngster when Queen Victoria ascended to the throne – and has now lived long enough to fall victim to a crypto scam. News outlets including the BBC, Daily Mail and USA Today falsely reported his death […]

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Canada revokes dozens of crypto firms’ registrations. “Anti-money laundering authorities in Canada have revoked registrations of nearly three dozen cryptocurrency businesses following an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Toronto Star.”

Indianapolis Recorder: Indiana law opens door for cryptocurrency in public retirement plans. “Gov. Mike Braun signed House Bill 1042 (HB 1042) on March 3. The law allows public retirement plans to offer cryptocurrency investment options and seeks to standardize digital asset regulations across the state.”

Outlier Media: ‘The model no longer works:’ Crypto landlord’s Detroit enterprise is crumbling. “RealT, a cryptocurrency real estate company that owns hundreds of rental homes in Detroit, appears to be unraveling. The company has stopped almost all weekly payouts to investors. It owes millions of dollars in unpaid property taxes, water bills and blight tickets. And it faces the […]

Forest Park Review: Ford campaign warns crypto funded PAC to cease and desist ‘defamatory’ ads. “A lawyer for 7th Congressional candidate La Shawn K. Ford sent a cease-and-desist order to a crypto currency funded PAC March 10, demanding it stop producing and disseminating video and print political attack ads containing what it calls ‘false, misleading, and defamatory statements’ against Ford.”

CNBC: AI, crypto industries dump millions into Illinois primaries to mixed results. “A major crypto PAC suffered a blow after the Illinois Senate Democratic candidate it spent millions opposing won the Tuesday primary and will likely be sworn into office next year.”

Ars Technica: Binance sues WSJ, panicked by gov’t probes into sanctioned crypto transfers. “Binance is hoping that suing The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes into how the cryptocurrency exchange failed to detect $1.7 billion in transfers to a network that was funding Iran-backed terror groups.”

I love the arrogance at the CATO institute, "If the US Sanctions someone, everyone should follow it." Looks like someone doesn't know the difference between Sanctions and a Blokade. I'm sure I can find an ICC prosecutor to explain it to them.
#digitalcurrency
https://www.cato.org/blog/digital-euro-sanctions-evasion

Ars Technica: Clueless cops post seized crypto wallet password. $5M quickly stolen.. “Soon after South Korean police posted a press release boasting about seizing $5.6 million worth of cryptocurrency from 124 wealthy tax evaders, cops realized that they had mistakenly posted images that made it possible for a thief to quickly steal most of the seized assets. Eventually, the press release was […]

ICIJ: As crypto industry expands, U.S. slashes office examining dirty money safeguards of cryptocurrency exchanges. “The cuts weaken the anti-money laundering watchdog’s office within the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, which is tasked with overseeing protections against dirty money in crypto exchanges and other firms registered as so-called money service businesses. Even before the recent […]

Gizmodo: Trump Affiliates Bannon and Epshteyn Named in ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Crypto Coin Lawsuit. “According to a court document published by Bloomberg Law, Steve Bannon and Boris Epshteyn were named as defendants in a class-action lawsuit regarding Let’s Go Brandon Coin, which is a crypto token that was launched in 2021.”

Tom’s Hardware: Ponzi schemer behind $201 million Bitcoin scam sentenced to 20 years in federal prison — promised 3% daily returns on Bitcoin investments, left investors reeling. “The cryptocurrency rush of the late 2010s led to heavy investment in the field. However, as with every gold rush, there are always fake map sellers. One of those is Ramil Ventura Palafox, who today was sentenced to […]

The Register: South Korea enlists AI to spot pump and dump schemes on social media, or in Spam . “South Korea’s government and main stock exchange have developed and deployed AI-powered tools to detect schemes that aim to send the price of cryptocurrencies and shares soaring so that unscrupulous investors can cash in.”

ProPublica: Six Senators Accuse Deputy Attorney General of “Glaring” Crypto Conflict, Cite ProPublica Investigation. “Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche this week of having a conflict of interest when he shut down investigations into crypto companies, dealers and exchanges and eliminated an enforcement team dedicated to looking for crypto-related fraud and […]

Gizmodo: It Turns Out Crypto’s Stablecoin Adoption is Around 1% of Previous Estimates. “Raw blockchain transfers are oftentimes pointed to as proof of stablecoin adoption, but the reality is only a small percentage of this activity—around 1% of roughly $35 trillion in total transaction volume—is actually related to real-world payments. This means stablecoin adoption, which the report […]

CoinDesk: One of the oldest NFT trading platform which facilitated over $300 million in sales at its peak shuts down. “Nifty Gateway, an NFT platform, will shut down on February 23, 2026, and has entered withdrawal-only mode, allowing users one month to move their NFTs and funds. The platform, which once facilitated over $300 million in sales, had shifted its focus to building onchain creative […]

Ars Technica: Hacker who stole 120,000 bitcoins wants a second chance—and a security job. “On Thursday, Ilya Lichtenstein, who was at the center of a massive 2016 crypto heist worth billions at the time, wrote online that he is now out of prison and has changed his ways.”