Oklahoma Enacts Watershed Bitcoin Rights Law Protecting Self-Custody Wallets

cryptonews.com Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt delivered a major win to digital asset supporters Monday with the enactment of a new Bitcoin rights bill (a.k.a HB3594) focused on preserving…

Feds Arrest Samourai Wallet Founders on Money Laundering Charges

thedefiant.io The government alleges the founders knowingly facilitated $2 billion of unlawful transactions and the laundering of $100 million from Silk Road and other black market…

Empire Newsletter: Crypto mixers have their day in court

blockworks.co A new scare tactic Crypto mixers, and those who make them, are having their day in court. Yesterday, Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was found guilty of money…

Developing Financial Privacy Tools Was Today Criminalized by the Dutch Court

bitcoinmagazine.com In the Netherlands, open source developers are now liable for how their software is used. Alexey Pertsev, a 31-year old Russian national living in the Netherlands and one of…

The government fears this privacy tool

reason.com The Department of Justice indicted the creators of an application that helps people spend their bitcoins anonymously. They're accused of "conspiracy to commit money…

Why Bitcoin mixer Samourai Wallet became the latest target in the US crypto crackdown

dlnews.com Crypto privacy advocates are calling on the industry to rally after the Department of Justice arrested two co-founders of Samourai Wallet, a Bitcoin wallet with a built-in…

The rise and fall of LocalMonero

protos.com The co-founder of LocalMonero, Alex Daneo, announced on Reddit that he will be ceasing operations after almost 7 years. Like the also-defunct LocalBitcoins service for…

Crypto Wallet Provider Exodus Delays NYSE Listing Due to SEC Review

cryptonews.com Exodus Movement, a prominent crypto wallet company, has announced a delay in its planned listing on NYSE American, the sibling market of the New York Stock Exchange. The…

P2P Trading Platform LocalMonero Bids Farewell Amid Regulatory Heat

beincrypto.com LocalMonero, the largest Monero (XMR) peer-to-peer (P2P) trading platform, announced its closure on May 7. This also marked the end of its nearly seven-year run in the…

Monero P2P Trading Platform LocalMonero Closes, Citing ‘Internal and External’ Factors

cryptonews.com LocalMonero, a peer-to-peer trading platform for the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero, has decided to shut down its services with immediate effect. In a Tuesday…

Exodus Approved for NYSE Listing, Trading Begins on May 9

cryptonews.com Crypto wallet developer Exodus Movement has received approval to list its common stock on the NYSE under the ticker EXOD. Trading for the stock will commence on the platform…

Bitcoin Mixers Pull Out of the US Amid Regulatory Heat

decrypt.co Following the arrest of the developers of Samourai Wallet, several other Bitcoin coin mixing operations see the writing on the wall and are leaving the United States for…