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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

Bank of England echoes EU concerns over multi jurisdiction stablecoins – Ledger Insights

During an event on Friday, …
#Economy #AndrewBailey #BankofEngland #centralbank #CentralBanks #CentralBanksoftheEuropeanSystem #DeutscheBundesbank #digitalcurrency #ECB #ESCB #Europe #European #EuropeanCentralBank #EuropeanCentralBanks #Financialstability #fungibility #multijurisdiction #stablecoin #stablecoinissuance #THEBANKOFENGLAND #TheBankofFrance #TheBankofItaly #UK
https://www.europesays.com/2981341/

https://www.europesays.com/people/60962/ Reporter’s Notebook: Congress passes short-term FISA 702 fix, delays long-term renewal #Congress #DigitalCurrency #FISA #JohnThune #MikeJohnson #Section702

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.”

https://www.europesays.com/ch/46731/ Why Swiss Banks Are Suddenly Testing a Digital Franc — And What It Means for Citizens #BlockchainTechnology #CBDC #DigitalAssets #DigitalCurrency #SNB #Swiss #SwissBank's #SwissBankersAssociation #SwissCitizens #SwissFranc #SwissNationalBank #Switzerland

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.”

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.”

South Korea launches world's first pilot program to distribute state subsidies via digital currency and deposit tokens, starting with electric vehicle charging infrastructure projects worth 30 billion won, with plans to convert 25% of state funds to digital currency by 2030
#YonhapInfomax #DigitalCurrency #StateSubsidies #BankOfKorea #BlockchainTechnology #ElectricVehicleInfrastructure #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=110873

South Korea launches world's first pilot program to distribute state subsidies via digital currency and deposit tokens, starting with electric vehicle charging infrastructure projects worth 30 billion won, with plans to convert 25% of state funds to digital currency by 2030
#YonhapInfomax #DigitalCurrency #StateSubsidies #BankOfKorea #BlockchainTechnology #ElectricVehicleInfrastructure #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=110873

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.”

IRS 1099-DA Reporting Gaps Could Cause Crypto Investors to Overpay Taxes by $14,500, Summ Analysis Finds https://www.byteseu.com/1850046/ #CapitalGains #Crypto #CryptoTaxReporting #CryptoCurrency #DigitalCurrency #Form1099DA #IncomeTaxes #investors #irs #Taxes

ECB research finds stablecoins impact bank deposits, monetary policy – Ledger Insights

The European Central Bank has published research into the impact of stablecoins. While the three high level findings…
#Economy #centralbank #CentralBanks #deposits #digitalcurrency #ECB #EU #Europe #EuropeanCentralBank #MiCA #MiCAR #MonetaryPolicy #monetarysovereignty #stablecoin
https://www.europesays.com/2819499/

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.”

Tom’s Hardware: Russia cracks down on ‘illegal’ cryptomining with prison terms up to five years — Kremlin will begin prosecuting in 2027. “Russia is preparing to move cryptocurrency mining from a regulatory gray zone into the core of its criminal law, with penalties ranging from fines to prison terms of up to five years. The draft legislation is expected in 2026, reports CNews.”

História do Litecoin#Criptomoedas #Cryptocurrency #DigitalCurrency #adoption #Altcoin #Bitcoin #Blockchain #creator #cryptocurrencydevelopment #decentralized #financialsystem #history #Litecoin #Technology #transactions O Litecoin foi lançado por Charlie Lee em 2011 como uma bifurcação do Bitcoin. Com tempos de bloco mais rápidos e um algoritmo de mineração diferente, o Litecoin se tornou uma das principais criptomoedas do mercado.
https://badgercoin.info/historia-do-litecoin/?fsp_sid=28329

TechSpot: Over 230 environmental groups across the US are asking Congress to halt AI data-center expansion. “A large coalition of environmentally-focused organizations has sent a scathing letter to members of Congress, urging US representatives to put the development of new data centers on hold. The letter identifies generative AI and cryptocurrency as among the most significant environmental […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/13/techspot-over-230-environmental-groups-across-the-us-are-asking-congress-to-halt-ai-data-center-expansion/

CNN: Crypto mogul Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years in prison for $40 billion stablecoin fraud. “Onetime cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison after a $40 billion crash revealed his crypto ecosystem to be a fraud. Victims said the 34-year-old financial technology whiz weaponized their trust to convince them that the investment — secretly propped up by cash […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/12/cnn-crypto-mogul-do-kwon-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-40-billion-stablecoin-fraud/

Texas Observer: Crypto’s Cryptic Texas Takeover. “State regulators don’t want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/16/texas-observer-cryptos-cryptic-texas-takeover/

Beijing backs Hong Kong as global hub with new financial measures

Beijing will bolster Hong Kong’s position as a gl…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #AI-as-infrastructure #AU #Australia #Beijing #Business #ChinaSecuritiesRegulatoryCommission #Chinesebusinesses #Chinesecompanies #digitalcurrency #electronicpayments #GlobalFinancialLeaders'InvestmentSummit #HongKong #HongKongMonetaryAuthority #LiMing #mainland #NationalFinancialRegulatoryAdministration #ZhouLiang
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/261822/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/162148/ Beijing backs Hong Kong as global hub with new financial measures #AIAsInfrastructure #Beijing #Business #ChinaSecuritiesRegulatoryCommission #ChineseBusinesses #ChineseCompanies #DigitalCurrency #Economy #Éire #ElectronicPayments #GlobalFinancialLeaders'InvestmentSummit #HongKong #HongKongMonetaryAuthority #IE #Ireland #LiMing #mainland #NationalFinancialRegulatoryAdministration #ZhouLiang

BBC: Bitcoin worth $14bn seized in US-UK crackdown on alleged scammers . “The US government has seized more than $14bn (£10.5bn) in bitcoin and charged the founder of a Cambodian business empire, the Prince Group, with allegedly masterminding a massive cryptocurrency scam, which involved forced labour camps.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/17/bbc-bitcoin-worth-14bn-seized-in-us-uk-crackdown-on-alleged-scammers/

Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? The Mystery Behind Bitcoin’s Creator
https://beitmenotyou.online/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto-the-mystery-behind-bitcoins-creator/
#Web3 #AdamBack #AnonymousCreator #ArthurBritto #Bitcoin #BitcoinCreator #BitcoinHistory #BitcoinMystery #BitcoinWhitepaper #Blockchain #BlockchainTechnology #CryptoHistory #CryptoOrigins #Cryptocurrency #Cypherpunk #Decentralisation #DigitalCurrency #DorianNakamoto #ElonMusk #HalFinney #IanGrigg #LenSassaman #NickSzabo #PaulLeRoux #SatoshiNakam

Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? The Mystery Behind Bitcoin’s Creator
https://beitmenotyou.online/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto-the-mystery-behind-bitcoins-creator/
#Web3 #AdamBack #AnonymousCreator #ArthurBritto #Bitcoin #BitcoinCreator #BitcoinHistory #BitcoinMystery #BitcoinWhitepaper #Blockchain #BlockchainTechnology #CryptoHistory #CryptoOrigins #Cryptocurrency #Cypherpunk #Decentralisation #DigitalCurrency #DorianNakamoto #ElonMusk #HalFinney #IanGrigg #LenSassaman #NickSzabo #PaulLeRoux #SatoshiNakam

https://www.alojapan.com/1371879/japan-extends-work-on-stablecoins-for-convenience-store-e-commerce-payments-ledger-insights/ Japan extends work on stablecoins for convenience store e-commerce payments – Ledger Insights #ConvenienceStores #DensanSystems #DigitalCurrency #Japan #JapanNews #JPYC #konbini #KonbiniPayments #news #stablecoin Japan has a network of over 65,000 convenience stores where many people use cash to pay utility bills or even for e-commerce orders, a practice referred to as konbini payments. In August, a key service provider for these stores

https://www.alojapan.com/1371879/japan-extends-work-on-stablecoins-for-convenience-store-e-commerce-payments-ledger-insights/ Japan extends work on stablecoins for convenience store e-commerce payments – Ledger Insights #ConvenienceStores #DensanSystems #DigitalCurrency #Japan #JapanNews #JPYC #konbini #KonbiniPayments #news #stablecoin Japan has a network of over 65,000 convenience stores where many people use cash to pay utility bills or even for e-commerce orders, a practice referred to as konbini payments. In August, a key service provider for these stores

Pinky-swear I did not deliberately put these two stories together. Tom’s Hardware: Report says North Korea is also posting fake jobs to steal crypto — because using AI to get fake employees real jobs at US tech firms wasn’t enough. “North Korea has reportedly expanded from setting up fake employees at Western tech firms to siphon money into its nuclear weapons program to posting fake jobs in […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/05/toms-hardware-report-says-north-korea-is-also-posting-fake-jobs-to-steal-crypto-because-using-ai-to-get-fake-employees-real-jobs-at-us-tech-firms-wasnt-enough/

Gizmodo: Kanye’s Crypto Journey Gets Significantly Weirder. “Kanye West (or Ye, as he’s known now) last week announced his first foray into the cryptocurrency industry with what his X account said was a new memecoin, YZY. … This week, West claimed his Instagram account had been hacked and that the hacker used the access to point visitors in the direction of a crypto scam.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/28/gizmodo-kanyes-crypto-journey-gets-significantly-weirder/

Bloomberg: Biotechs Turn to Digital Coins, Crypto to Boost Stock Prices. “Now some biotech executives are using digital coins to pump new life into flagging shares. So far in 2025, at least 10 biotechs have announced a pivot into digital assets. The announcements frequently spark frenzied, but short-lived, spikes in shares.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/26/bloomberg-biotechs-turn-to-digital-coins-crypto-to-boost-stock-prices/

20-year-old Scattered Spider Member Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison – Source: securityboulevard.com https://ciso2ciso.com/20-year-old-scattered-spider-member-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-source-securityboulevard-com/ #SecurityBoulevard(Original) #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #ThreatIntelligence #CyberSecurityNews #SecurityAwareness #SecurityBoulevard #socialengineering #DigitalCurrency #Identity&Access #NetworkSecurity #ScatteredSpider #MobileSecurity #prisonsentence #SocialFacebook #datasecurity

20-year-old Scattered Spider Member Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison – Source: securityboulevard.com https://ciso2ciso.com/20-year-old-scattered-spider-member-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-source-securityboulevard-com/ #SecurityBoulevard(Original) #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #ThreatIntelligence #CyberSecurityNews #SecurityAwareness #SecurityBoulevard #socialengineering #DigitalCurrency #Identity&Access #NetworkSecurity #ScatteredSpider #MobileSecurity #prisonsentence #SocialFacebook #datasecurity