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Feds with a digital currency will be able to track your (and everybody else's) every expenditure down to the penny. That will be fun, huh? Talk about "Big Brother"..

it will be even worse than that....they will eventually (just like in other countries), implement negative interest rates for savings accounts.
 

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it will be even worse than that....they will eventually (just like in other countries), implement negative interest rates for savings accounts.
Yes they don't want savers.

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Justice Department arrests two for allegedly laundering $4.5B from Bitfinex hack

BTC-USD -2.67%Feb. 08, 2022 12:10 PM ET2 Comments
  • The U.S. Department of Justice arrested a couple who allegedly conspired to launder $4.5B of cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange. So far, law enforcement has recovered more than $3.6B in crypto linked to the hack, the DOJ said in a statement.
  • "Today, federal law enforcement demonstrates once again that we can follow money through the blockchain, and that we will not allow cryptocurrency to be a safe haven for money laundering or a zone of lawlessness within our financial system," said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr., of the DOJ's Criminal Division.
  • Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan were arrested for the alleged conspiracy. The couple is accused of conspiring to launder 119,754 bitcoin (BTC-USD) that were stolen from Bitfinex's platform after a hacker broke into the exchange's systems and initiated more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions.
  • The criminal complaint alleges that Lichtenstein and Morgan used a number of laundering techniques, including using fictitious identities to set up online accounts, using computer programs to automate transactions, depositing stolen funds into accounts at a number of virtual currency exchanges and darknet markets and then withdrawing funds, and a practice known as "chain-hopping."
  • In 2016, hackers took 119,756 bitcoins (BTC-USD) worth ~$72M at the time of the breach, from the Bitfinex exchange.
 

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Justice Department arrests two for allegedly laundering $4.5B from Bitfinex hack

BTC-USD -2.67%Feb. 08, 2022 12:10 PM ET2 Comments
  • The U.S. Department of Justice arrested a couple who allegedly conspired to launder $4.5B of cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange. So far, law enforcement has recovered more than $3.6B in crypto linked to the hack, the DOJ said in a statement.
  • "Today, federal law enforcement demonstrates once again that we can follow money through the blockchain, and that we will not allow cryptocurrency to be a safe haven for money laundering or a zone of lawlessness within our financial system," said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr., of the DOJ's Criminal Division.
  • Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan were arrested for the alleged conspiracy. The couple is accused of conspiring to launder 119,754 bitcoin (BTC-USD) that were stolen from Bitfinex's platform after a hacker broke into the exchange's systems and initiated more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions.
  • The criminal complaint alleges that Lichtenstein and Morgan used a number of laundering techniques, including using fictitious identities to set up online accounts, using computer programs to automate transactions, depositing stolen funds into accounts at a number of virtual currency exchanges and darknet markets and then withdrawing funds, and a practice known as "chain-hopping."
  • In 2016, hackers took 119,756 bitcoins (BTC-USD) worth ~$72M at the time of the breach, from the Bitfinex exchange.
Rookies. Can't even launder 4.5B. LMAO.
 

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Shiba Inu launches metaverse real estate; LEASH tokens surge 40%

SHIB-USD +12.17%Feb. 09, 2022 10:26 AM ET3 Comments
  • As part of its first steps to enter the metaverse, Shiba Inu (SHIB-USD) on Wednesday introduced virtual real estate.
  • So-called Shiba Lands will be available for "purchase/auction really soon," the developers wrote in a blog post.
  • Additionally, Shiba Inu (SHIB-USD) has been working on a queue system designed for the Shiba Lands sales event. Moreover, "this queue allows exclusivity by requiring interested parties to hold 'LEASH', which gives priority and exclusive access to this first selling phase of the land plots in our Metaverse," the blog post read. Developers also said they worked on an anti-dump system to protect LEASH holders.
  • Doge Killer tokens jump 40% in the past 24 hours; Shiba Inu (SHIB-USD +8.6%) tokens gain and; bitcoin (BTC-USD +1.2%) slightly rises to sub $44K.
  • Note that some of the largest metaverse platforms that opt for introducing digital real estate are Sandbox and Decentraland (MANA-USD).
  • Previously, (Dec. 6, 2021) Shiba Inu founder said upcoming coin supply reduction will enable metaverse entry.
 

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