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El Salvador’s long-standing bet on Bitcoin is gaining fresh traction as the value of its sovereign holdings swelled to over $644 million amid a broader market rally. The Central American nation now holds approximately 6,181 BTC, putting it just behind major global players like the U.S., China, the U.K., Ukraine, and Bhutan in terms of

Amid a troubling rise in targeted attacks on crypto professionals, the French government has introduced a sweeping new security initiative to safeguard digital asset entrepreneurs and their families. The move comes in response to a string of violent abductions and attempted kidnappings that have rocked the nation’s crypto industry in recent months. Interior Minister Bruno

Federal Judge María Servini has escalated the investigation into Argentina’s $LIBRA cryptocurrency scandal by ordering the Central Bank to lift banking secrecy protections for President Javier Milei and his sister Karina Milei. The directive grants authorities access to their financial records, signaling mounting legal pressure over their alleged ties to the failed Solana-based memecoin. The

A 26-year-old Alabama man has been sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for orchestrating a SIM-swap attack that compromised the official X (formerly Twitter) account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and triggered a temporary spike in Bitcoin’s price. Eric Council Jr., who used online aliases like “Ronin” and “Agiantschnauzer,” pleaded guilty

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has intensified pressure on World Liberty Financial (WLF), a Trump-affiliated crypto venture, over what he called an “evasive and seriously inadequate” response to a Senate ethics inquiry. The Connecticut senator condemned the firm’s refusal to provide basic information about its ownership, foreign ties, and financial connections to Donald Trump. “WLFI’s refusal

Despite a recent internal policy shift discouraging aggressive enforcement in regulatory gray zones, the U.S. Department of Justice has confirmed it will move forward with its criminal case against Roman Storm, co-founder of the crypto privacy protocol Tornado Cash. In a court filing Thursday, federal prosecutors stated that Storm will stand trial in Manhattan on

U.S. federal authorities have charged 12 individuals in a sprawling crypto theft case involving over $263 million in stolen digital assets. The suspects, mostly between ages 18 and 21, are accused of executing an organized campaign of cyber intrusions, SIM-swap attacks, and identity theft to loot high-value crypto wallets—funds they allegedly used to bankroll an

In a sweeping crackdown that reverberated across the crypto underworld, Telegram has shut down what analysts are calling the largest darknet marketplace ever to exist—Haowang Guarantee, previously known as Huione Guarantee. The platform had become a central hub in Asia’s cyber scam economy, enabling the laundering of more than $27 billion before its abrupt collapse

Federal prosecutors have brought narco-terrorism and drug trafficking charges against two alleged high-ranking operatives of the Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO), a violent faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, after uncovering a complex network of fentanyl operations intertwined with cryptocurrency-based money laundering. Pedro Inzunza Noriega and his son, Pedro Inzunza Coronel, were indicted in the Southern District

An attempted abduction in broad daylight has raised fresh alarms over the personal safety of high-profile crypto figures, following a violent encounter involving the family of a French crypto executive. On Tuesday, four masked assailants attempted to kidnap the daughter and grandson of the CEO of Paymium, one of France’s oldest cryptocurrency exchanges, near the