Canadian Court orders transfer of 420 Bitcoin held by ICO founder, during Court hearing

Tweet On Friday, a Quebec Court ordered the founder of an illegal ICO, Dominic Lacroix, to transfer $3.7 million worth of Bitcoin during a Court hearing and threatened him with incarceration if he did not immediately do so. Lacroix created the Plexcoin ICO which is the subject of an enforcement action by the SEC. According […]

블록체인 산업 발전을 위한 전문가의 조언

Tweet By Eunji Lee 한국에선 블록체인 ì‚°ì—… 성장속도가 빠르다는 것에 비해 정부의 제대로 된 지지가 미흡하다. 이 수동적인 정부의 태도가 êµ­ë‚´ 블록체인 ì‚°ì—… 활성화가 무뎌지는 이유들 중 첫번째로 손 꼽힌다. 암호화폐는 블록체인을 기반으로 만들어지는 만큼 이미 ‘암호화폐 = 블록체인’이라는 인식이 강화된 상태에서, 암호화폐를 둘러싼 끊이지 않는 사건 사고가 블록체인 ì‚°ì—… 이미지를 악화시킨다. 여러 거래소가 해킹당하고, […]

Operation Dark Gold – arrest of 35 darknet vendors using digital currencies for illegal drug trafficking and commerce

Tweet The US Department of Justice, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Secret Service, and the DEA announced the arrest and pending prosecution of more than 35 darknet vendors across the country after a year-long investigation dubbed Operation Dark Gold. US federal law enforcement seized more than $20 million in Bitcoin and other digital currencies, 100 illegal […]

Court in China approves Blockchain as a source of evidence

Tweet A Court in China has ruled that Blockchain technology can be used to provide evidence in litigation in a first-of-its-kind decision. The litigation involved the ownership of intellectual property, where a claim of IP was recorded on the Blockchain. The Hangzhou Court of the Internet in China’s Zhejiang Province ruled that information stored on […]

Millions seized from banks, PayPal and in Bitcoin & IOTA in European drug bust

Tweet According to a statement by Europol, police in Austria and Spain seized €4.5 million in Bitcoin and IOTA as part of a bust of a transnational criminal organization that manufactured and trafficked LSD and laundered the proceeds of crime. Europol seized €5.5 million in Bitcoin, €137,000 in IOTA, 10 luxury vehicles and €1.6 million in […]

35 darknet drug traffickers arrested in the US; $20 million in Bitcoin seized

Tweet Over 35 people were arrested in a US-wide sweep by the US DOJ, DEA, US Secret Service, ICE, HSI and the FBI agents for selling illegal drugs over the darknet and laundering the proceeds of crime using, inter alia, Bitcoin. The operation involved agents posing as digital currency exchanges to obtain personal information of […]

Darknet drug trafficker with over $1 million in Bitcoin and Litecoin sentenced in US

Tweet 25-year-old Matthew Yensan, from North Carolina, was sentenced to 78 months incarceration today for producing Xanax and Alprazolam, selling them on the darknet and laundering the proceeds of crime using, inter alia, Bitcoin and Litecoin. According to the indictment, Yensan had a Glock 27 .40, a Smith & Wesson Revolver .357, a Colt King […]

Canada doing a lot worse combatting money laundering and drug trafficking according to 2018 US INCSR report

Tweet Canada once again a “Major Money Laundering” country The 2018 “International Narcotics Control Strategy Report” (INCSR) published in March 2018 by the U.S. Department of State identifies Canada once again as a “major money laundering country” along with a host of risky countries for financial crime, and is generally doing a lot worse combatting money […]

Suspected Mexican cartel member indicted for trafficking enough fentanyl to kill 10 million people

Tweet Authorities in New York indicted a man alleged to be part of the Sinaloa Mexican cartel in connection with trafficking fentanyl in quantities that would kill 10 million people. Francisco Quiroz-Zamora, aka the “fat one” was charged under the Kingpin Act, which is significant because it carries a term of imprisonment of life on conviction. […]

US Issues sanctions against Venezuela’s ICO – the Petro Coin

Tweet Executive Order  President Trump issued an Executive Order imposing economic sanction on the initial coin offering (“ICO“) by the Government of Venezuela, called the Petro coin (the “Petro ICO“). The Executive Order makes it illegal to engage in transactions, dealings or financings in connection with the Petro ICO, which would include buying, selling, trading, […]