Study Suggests 25 Percent of Bitcoin Users Are Associated With Illegal Activity
In a newly published paper on the use of bitcoin for illegal activity, researchers from the University of Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney and the...
Europol Launches Global Campaign Against Dark Web Vendors, Buyers
By: Landon Manning, Bitcoin Magazine
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, better known as Europol, announced on March 26, 2019, that it has...
It Looks as if Another Darknet Market Era Is Coming to an End
By: Aaron Van Wirdum, Bitcoin Magazine
Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending.
Two of...
New York Makes First Money Laundering Conviction Involving Cryptocurrency
By: Jimmy Aki, Bitcoin Magazine
In what the Manhattan District Attorney calls the first crypto money laundering conviction in New York, two defendants have pleaded...
Microsoft Is Building an ID Verification Platform on Bitcoin
By: Colin Harper, Bitcoin Magazine
Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building...
Tether Partly Backed by Bitcoin, Court Transcription Reveals
By: Colin Harper, Bitcoin Magazine
Tether, a stablecoin tied to the dollar that is meant to mediate the volatility of other cryptocurrencies, is partly backed...
LG Electronics launches new smart lighting control system
LG Electronics has unveiled a new smart lighting control system dubbed the LG Smart Lighting Manager (SLM).
LG said that the new offering is a...
Google exposes G Suite issue that stored plain-text passwords on its servers for 14...
Google has begun forcing “a subset of our enterprise G Suite customers” to change their passwords after an issue that inadvertently left passwords exposed...