The South Asian kingdom hopes to become the second country in the world to run its state-owned crypto mine.

In the mother of all convenient coincidences, cryptocurrency magnate and accused fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried, has had all of his campaign finance charges dropped by the Department of Justice, based on a technicality that they attributed to ...

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In a recent Twitter poll on Ethereum censorship, Vitalik Buterin revealed that he voted to punish validators complying with censorship requests by burning their staked tokens. The poll was held by software engineer Eric Wall, who asked the Ethereum community if they would burn the staked tokens of validators who comply with censorship requests or "tolerate the censorship" and do nothing.

According to the Coinbase website, "staking" is "the process of actively participating in transaction validation (similar to mining) on a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain. On these blockchains, anyone with a minimum-required balance of a specific cryptocurrency can validate transactions and earn Staking rewards."

A man who allegedly developed Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency protocol sanctioned by the Treasury Department for anonymizing transactions that is thought to be used extensively for money laundering, was arrested in Amsterdam. The Netherlands's Fiscal Information and Investigation Service said Friday that it had arrested a 29-year-old man involved in the development of Tornado Cash.

A hacker has stolen almost $620 million in Ethereum and USDC tokens from Axie Infinity's Ronin network bridge, making it possibly the largest crypto hack in history.

LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - The cryptocurrency arm of Jump Trading said on Thursday it had restored more than $320 million to crypto platform Wormhole after the decentralized finance site was hit with one of the largest crypto heists on record.