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9 Aug 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Vespera $0.20
The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals. In May, the U.S. government sanctioned Blender, a coin mixer, for allegedly helping North Kore...
9 Aug 2022 3 minute read 4 comments kev_nag $1.96
In a Monday announcement, OFAC effectively barred U.S. residents from using Tornado Cash and placed 44 USD Coin (USDC) and Ether (ETH) addresses connected to the mixer on its list of Specially Designated Nationals. The department alleged that indivi...
16 May 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Kovichni $0.34
I remember when I first heard of the US intending to "shut down" particular components of crypto, which resulted in them blocking it's citizens from certain exchanges and forbidding them to partake in ICOs. This was when/why that Binance US version e...
19 Apr 2022 4 minute read 4 comments Kovichni $1.02
First off, what's with the term "oligarch" many articles like these use all the time? Why are rich people from certain countries "oligarchs" while those in other countries are labeled "successful entrepreneurs" or "lobbyist"? But wait, they are chang...
13 Mar 2022 2 minute read 1 comment kev_nag $0.13
The UAE has previously claimed it is not siding with either Western allies or Moscow. UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash late last month said the Gulf state “believes that taking sides would only lead to more violence,” and that the UAE’s focus...
13 Mar 2022 3 minute read 12 comments Kovichni $0.66
What's going on here, first DuckDuckGone and now this? Are all these "hey come support us so we can grow and be better than the established big tech" startups just as bad as the rest? It's almost as if all they needed was a large client base and enou...
11 Mar 2022 1 minute read 0 comments kev_nag $0.05
In a Meeting of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday morning (March 10, 2022), Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) inquired of FBI Director, Christopher Wray whether Russia could escape the effects of sanctions (particularly the bann...
8 Mar 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Kovichni $0.10
"I was disappointed to see that some of the so-called crypto exchanges, not all of them, but some of them, are refusing to end transactions with Russia". Ah yes, if there's anyone who'd we hate to disappoint it's the witch who co-destroyed Africa's p...
5 Mar 2022 3 minute read 4 comments kev_nag $0.67
Okay, so the irony of this is rather humorous! Clearly, Musk is more known for the position: Photo Source But nonetheless, yesterday (March 4, 2022), Musk took to Twitter and proclaimed: “Hate to say it, but we need to increase oil & gas output immed...
4 Mar 2022 1 minute read 0 comments kev_nag $0.33
Russian denominated crypto trading volume has significantly fallen since the imposition of sanctions. This fact tends to debunk the theories of certain ‘experts’ that cryptocurrency would be the go-to vehicle for Russians to circumvent said sanctions...
