Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has voluntarily engaged in an initiative to eliminate money laundering on its platform. For years, despite the inherent lack of privacy measures on major public blockchain networks like Bitcoinand ...

LocalBitcoins trader Theresa Lynn Tetley, better known as the “Bitcoin Maven,” has been sentenced to 12 months and a day in prison, a $20,000 fine, and three years supervision after release for laundering bitcoin as proceeds of narcotics sales ...

As recently reported by CCN, a 38-year-old Russian man was recently arrested in Greece. The man, Alexander Vinnik, is accused of laundering $4 billion worth of ill-gotten bitcoins, and was allegedly running “one of the most important websites o...

Recently two global ransomware campaigns made headlines due to the incredible reach they managed to have. Both WannaCry and NotPetya managed to reach hundreds of countries, despite only earning their authors about $140,000 and $10,000 respec...

Mt Gox founder and former CEO Mark Karpeles, a 32-year-old French-born, recently went to trial in Japan on bitcoin embezzlement charges at the Tokyo District Court. Karpeles denied the charges of embezzling a total of ¥341 million in customers’...

Austrian officials released a recent report indicating that money laundering had increased over the past year in the central European country. Bitcoin sees a mention within the report. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BK) noted bitcoin mone...