Seized Silk Road Bitcoin to Clear Ross Ulbricht's $183M Debt
Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht will see his $183 million debt to the U.S. government wiped out following the seizure of $3 billion in bitcoin. Original Source
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Road to Consensus: Latashá
The rapper, a speaker at CoinDesk's festival in June, on music NFTs, on building the Zora community and why gas fees are still worth it. Original Source
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Onboarding the next billion users — The road ahead
Recent geopolitical events have polarized the world. Partisanship and the ideological divide have further balkanized the internet, whose gatekeepers have trampled upon the rights of millions to access financial services. Nations are gradually waking up to the reality of having neutral protocols and national stacks. Hailed as the next generation of
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Matt Odell on the Long Road to Bitcoin Privacy
There is a disconnect there, right? It's something that is very frustrating to me about the bitcoin world, and it is not just a privacy thing. You normally will not hear a developer say anything like that, but on Bitcoin Twitter, you hear it all the time, “oh, this will
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Russian Government Agrees on Road Map to Regulate Crypto: Report
The plan was drafted by a working group comprising several government agencies, including the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economic Development, General Prosecutor's Office, Rosfinmonitoring (the federal body responsible for combating money laundering and terrorist financing), Federal Tax Service, Ministry of Digital Development, Bank of Russia, Federal Security Service and
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Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht, Who Proved the Case for Bitcoin, Can Do So for NFTs
Now, his latest auction might demonstrate the same utility for NFTs. At heart, NFTs are a way to prove the uniqueness of particular digital items. They are mostly used for in-game items and art, but have applicability across the internet. Like with bitcoin, the idea is that anyone can use,
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Stablecoin issuers poised to be banks of the future on road to adoption
There is no denying the fact that the crypto market has grown from strength to strength over the course of 2021, as is best highlighted by the total capitalization of the industry recently hitting the $3-trillion mark, albeit for a relatively brief period of time. That said, stablecoins, a class of
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Ross Ulbricht Loses Bid to Dismiss Federal Silk Road Suit
With the motion to dismiss all charges rejected, the case is now expected to move to trial with a 3rd November start date. Ulbricht, who has plead not guilty, faces life behind bars for charges that also include computer hacking and continued criminal enterprise, the latter of which carries a minimum sentence
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Bitcoin ATMs and the Road to Adoption
Last week, I published a report looking at the resurgent growth of the crypto community in Puerto Rico. Bull markets are a breeding ground for tax minimization strategies and crypto’s wildest ambitious to remake the world. And while there is a crush of rich crypto investors, builders and founders to
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