The new name comes a week after announcing its new Lelantus protocol, which allows Zcoin holders to burn existing coins and then redeem them in batches for new coins with no transaction history.
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Attorney General William Barr brings the law enforcement hammer down on crypto (Photo: Department of Justice)DoJ launches law enforcement guide to crypto
The Department of Justice’s extensive report, ‘Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework,’ singles out many of the challenges cryptocurrencies bring to law enforcement
U.S. Attorney General William Barr today released an 83-page report detailing the threats and challenges cryptocurrencies pose to law enforcement, and in some ways, it’s a doozy.
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McAfee arrested, for real this time
John McAfee’s days of skating tax evasion charges by living on a yacht ended with his arrest in Spain; the SEC’s also suing him for shilling ICO’s
“Don’t want to pay taxes? Use Monero, use a distributed exchange, live a happy life.” So said crypto enthusiast, privacy coin advocate and semi-presidential candidate John MacAfee in an interview with Modern Consensus in February. It turns out he should have added, keep a low profile. Or at least lower than a tongue-in-cheek presidential campaign.
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Report lists crypto red flags—don’t be old, want privacy
The powerful Financial Action Task Force has released a very broad list of reasons a cryptocurrency transaction should be scrutinized under anti-money-laundering rules
While some of the crypto red flags are obvious, others are very broad and could well catch legitimate investors in the net—for instance, opening an account and making a lot of transactions despite being old.
