News with the tag "Roman"

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is donating more than a million dollars to help Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev with his legal defense. The contribution follows the developer’s supervised release to prepare to appeal his money laundering conviction in the Netherlands. Ethereum Foundation Aids Ale...

US President Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly pressured Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions on controversial influencer and memecoin promoter Andrew Tate, along with his brother Tristan, who face serious allegations in Romania. Currently under judicial control, the Tates can...

A small city in Romania called Sibiu could “soon” adopt cryptocurrency, according to a casual interaction on X this morning. In particular, the Romanian city could be eyeing to “fully adopt” MultiversX ( EGLD ), a blockchain developed by a Romania-based team. The interaction started with xEli (@Elro...

AI-powered romance scams leverage chatbots and deepfakes to deceive crypto users, posing new challenges in fraud prevention.

Ross is now free. I predict this will be the one good thing to come out of this administration in the grand scheme of things. The reasons behind this pardon were purely political, but regardless of that I am incredibly happy to see Ross reunited with his family and loved ones. Even taking all the ac...

Roman Storm, the co-founder of the controversial crypto mixing platform Tornado Cash, is pushing to have criminal charges dropped, citing a recent ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling, which found that the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s OFAC overstepped its authority in sanc...

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm has petitioned a judge to drop the criminal charges against him after an appeals court found the Treasury unlawfully sanctioned the crypto mixer.

The Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recently arrested 792 suspects involved in crypto romance scams. Scams Traced to Foreign Kingpins The Nigerian anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), recently arrested 792 suspects implicated in crypto romanc...

Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency arrested 792 suspected to be involved in a crypto romance scam scheme based out of the country’s largest city.

The developer of the crypto mixing protocol Tornado Cash is now preparing for his appeal while behind bars. Alex Pertsev is in jail after being found guilty of money laundering by The Netherlands’ Oost-Brabant district court which sentenced him to 64 months of prison time in May. Pertsev was convict...