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Coinbase Contracts With DHS for Blockchain Analytics

Data Breach Today

Department of Homeland Security to provide its blockchain monitoring software, according to government tracking sites. Crypto Exchange Also Scraps Plans for Lending Program Amid SEC Pushback U.S.-based based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has contracted with the U.S.

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Records Disrupted: Blockchain as a Transformative Force

Weissman's World

What aren’t everlasting though, are the so-called information governance “technologies” we use to bring these matters to heel. The post Records Disrupted: Blockchain as a Transformative Force appeared first on Holly Group. In recent decades, we have cycled through imaging, document […].

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Reimagining Information Governance with Blockchain

Weissman's World

Though blockchain […]. The post Reimagining Information Governance with Blockchain appeared first on Holly Group.

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Bitcoin ? Blockchain

Weissman's World

The post Bitcoin ≠ Blockchain appeared first on Holly Group. Seems like not an hour goes by that I don’t see a headline about the soaring value of bitcoin – followed near-immediately by another that warns of the imminent bursting of the bitcoin bubble. But I am invested (intellectually, […].

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Illegal Content and the Blockchain

Schneier on Security

Now the content-delivery network Akamai has reported on a new method: a botnet that uses the Bitcoin blockchain ledger. Since the blockchain is globally accessible and hard to take down, the botnet’s operators appear to be safe. What if someone puts illegal material in the blockchain? That’s how the system works.

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US Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash, Freezes Its Assets

Data Breach Today

Penalties for Anyone in US Jurisdiction Who Uses the Cryptocurrency Mixer The federal government today sanctioned Tornado Cash. The Department of Treasury ordered assets of the Ethereum blockchain cryptocurrency mixer to be frozen and says civil and potentially criminal penalties await anyone under U.S.

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On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain

Schneier on Security

Nothing in that letter is out of the ordinary, and is in line with what I wrote about blockchain in 2019. In response, Matthew Green has written —not really a rebuttal—but a “a general response to some of the more common spurious objections …people make to public blockchain systems.”