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Ilya Lichtenstein and Razzlekhan Pleaded Guilty to Bitfinex 2016 Heist and Money Laundering Conspiracy "Lichtenstein pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Morgan pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years of in prison."
Tether Bought 1529 BTC in Q2, Holds More US Treasuries Than Australia Tether Excess Reserves increased by 850M to reach $3.3B as it revealed $72.5B overall exposure in US T-Bills. The company also increased its Bitcoin holdings to more than 54000 BTC.
Following Scrutiny in Kenya and Europe, Worldcoin Says It Will Let Interested 3rd Parties Use Its ID System Kenya suspended Worldcoin activities, while the project also has fallen under investigation in France, UK, and Germany. Worldcoin says it will continue rolling out operations in "all the parts of the world that will accept us" and admitted that it plans to sell collected data to interested parties.
NDK v0.8.0: Data Vending Machines Support & NDK-React v0.1.1 Released NDK is a nostr development kit that makes the experience of building Nostr-related applications, whether they are relays, clients, or anything in between, better, more reliable and overall nicer to work with than existing solutions.
Nodeless Is Now Open Source: Receive BTC & Lightning Payments Without a Node Nodeless allows you to accept Bitcoin and Lightning payments in your online store, charity or fundraiser, all without all the complexities of managing a lightning node. The payments get sent directly to one's cold storage or lightning address.
Coinbase Is Still 'Looking Into How To Best Add Lightning' After saying that Coinbase will integrate Lightning back in April, CEO Brian Armstrong repeated that the largest exchange in the United States is still evaluating options for its forthcoming Lightning integration.
The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services. No amendments have been accepted that would mitigate the bill’s most dangerous elements.
Bitcoin Optech #262: LN Spec Meetings & Blind MuSig2 Signing Safety "This week’s newsletter links to transcripts of recent LN specification meetings and summarizes a thread about the safety of blind MuSig2 signing. Also included are our regular sections..."