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Travel Rule - Update on suspended transaction

19 Mar 2025 2 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

The UE busybodies can't go a full day without fixing stuff that isn't broken. The new Travel Rule is going to cause headaches to crypto users of countries where it applies. In short, under the Travel Rule, users are required to provide information...

I may have found a solution

18 Mar 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Like a lot of people, I keep some crypto funds in exchanges if I want to spend them. A lot of exchanges provide debit cards you can only to crypto accounts. The problem is under the new Travel Rule, it'll be complicated to receive funds. I know th...

This is bad, and it reminds me of the early days

18 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Earlier today I was disappointed to discover I'm now required to provide unclear information about my transactions under the new Travel Rule. I found out the hard way, but fortunately on a transaction worth $0.68. Here's what happened. Ordinarily,...

Dear Publish0x, I/we need help

18 Mar 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Ordinarily, I withdraw OP/OETH to my hot wallet and then occasionally transfer it to my CEX. Now, for the first time, I was asked to provide details regarding the source of the funds/payment under the travel rule. Specifically, I was asked to provi...

Somebody just made a $500 million bet on Bitcoin

18 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Hyperliquid Whale, a famous but anonymous trader, made a huge bet on Bitcoin. Actually, Whale made a huge bet on the fall of Bitcoin. Whale opened a $430 million short position with 40X leverage, and then added another $100 million. After that, pe...

Remember Pavel Durov? He can now leave France

16 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

We kind of forgot all about it but Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, was arrested in France a few months ago. Well, he can now leave France and go back to the UAE. Back in August 2024, Durov was arrested at Le Bourget airport in Paris. Prosecutors...

Michael Saylor made some pretty interesting claims about the US and Bitcoin

16 Mar 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Michael Saylor, founder of MicroStrategy (now only known as Strategy) said the US should considering adding at least 20 percent of the Bitcoin network to its strategic reserve. According to Saylor, this would have two benefits. First, it would stre...

How the Nasdaq could benefit from/use Blockchain technology

15 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

The Nasdaq, sometimes simply referred to without the article 'the', is one of the major and most well-known stock market index, as we all know. Distributed ledgers could, at least in theory, eliminate the need for a centralised market, which is what...

BNB and Solana are still neck and neck

15 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Solana, both in terms of blockchain activity and price, has taken a beating over the last few months. The memecoin frenzy made its value shoot up, but then it collapsed for the same reason. Interestingly, this allowed BNB Chain to catch up and, eve...

This is useful

11 Mar 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

CoinMarketCap diamond rewards are and always have been a bit of a mixed bag. Mostly, you get discounts on tickets for crypto events, the inevitable discount on NordVPN and other VPNs, discounts on hardware wallet and, very, very, very occasionally,...