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For several years now, Binance has played an important role as the big brother of the crypto industry by assisting in the recovery of funds from users who have been victims of theft, scams, or hacks. But now, they are aiming higher with an e-crime training program. On September 27, Binance announced the official launch of its “Global Law Enforcement Training Program,” created to help law enforcement agencies combat financial and electronic crimes that involved crypto or...

Brett Harrison, President of the United States subsidiary of major cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is leaving his leadership position but will act as an advisor for the company. Nevertheless, the exec will continue to have an advisory role. The FTX US boss announced his resignation in a tweet thread on Tuesday (September 27, 2022) after serving as CEO of the company for nearly one and a half years. 1/ An announcement: I’m stepping down as President of @FTX_Official. Over the...

The US Internal Revenue Service is ramping up its efforts to collect taxes from crypto traders regardless of a 70% market slump. The tax department has obtained a court order authorizing summons for records of US taxpayers that failed to report transactions and pay taxes on crypto profits. Specifically, the IRS will issue what is known as a “John Doe summons” requiring MY Safra Bank to provide crypto transaction data for customers of the SFOX cryptocurrency broker that used...

As the British pound rapidly weakens against the U.S. dollar, trading volume for the BTC/GBP pair has been skyrocketing.  Data from Bitfinex and Bitstamp shows that volume was more than 1,100% above its average on Monday.  Brits Turning to Bitcoin? As shared by CoinShares Head of Research James Butterfill, BTC/GBP volume on September 26th soared to over $881 million. By contrast, the average daily volume is only about $70 million over roughly two years. This comes after the...

The Ethereum ecosystem is among the fastest-growing in the cryptocurrency industry, especially in the past few years. With the foray of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications in 2020, it became obvious that crypto users needed tools to interact with various DApps in a way that’s accessible to those who don’t necessarily have coding knowledge. Even though popular before that, this was when self-custody wallets, like MyEtherWallet, became mainstream. During EthCC 5 in Paris...

A new study published Tuesday by the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance (CCAF) shows that almost 62% of Bitcoin’s total energy consumption since January 2022 was generated from fossil fuels. This means renewable sources only amounted to 38% of the total energy consumed by BTC miners this year.  As a Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchain, processing and validating BTC transactions (mining) requires high computational power and solving mathematical puzzles with powerful...

So much for fortune favoring the brave. Crypto.com – one of the largest and most well-known digital currency trading platforms in the world – has made a multi-million-dollar mistake by sending piles of money to a lone recipient… And then not noticing for several months. Crypto.com Has Sent a Lot of Money Out By Mistake More than $10 million in digital currency funds were sent by Crypto.com to Melbourne native Thevamanogari Manivel. The clincher is that the company only...