Cryptocurrency News Today TheBitTimes.com

Tether has blocked six new wallets on the Ethereum network, likely due to being linked to the Russia Finiko ponzi scheme .  According to blockchain intelligence firm ChainArgos, the wallets might have made suspicious transfers to Finiko-linked addresses. However, no other noticeable suspicious transactions were observed from these addresses. 1/4 @Tether_to just blacklisted 6 new wallets: On Ethereum: – 0x691169914a13465bd9528292f8fbdd0301354941 – 0x6d82a3743261e0ac77116f4cf153338bec3c69c6 – 0x016a2046689fc94eec7d23545693bc7b81dbabd1 – 0x873e288d432d1e8dd93defa63406fd9a80580491 -… — ChainArgos (@ChainArgos) December 20, 2023 You might also like: Coinbase CEO considers anti-crypto bills as ‘bad political strategy’ Finiko was a pyramid scheme launched in Russia in 2018, which saw victims lose up to $95 million. Last year, Interpol arrested the scam leader, Edvard Sabirov, in the UAE. However, several other members of the scam are still a...

The government department warned virtual asset service providers and other financial institutions to “identify and report suspicious transactions” related to terrorist groups. The United States Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, issued an alert for financial institutions as part of efforts to identify “suspicious activity” related to funding terrorist groups. In an Oct. 20 notice, FinCEN said that the militant group Hamas — behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel — employed “fundraising campaigns involving virtual currency and fictitious charities raising both fiat and virtual currency” to fund its activities. The government department warned virtual asset service providers and other institutions to “identify and report suspicious transactions” potentially connected to Hamas. Specifically, FinCEN cautioned financial institutions to be wary of clients who have conducted transactions with a business in a jurisdiction associated with Hamas, entities alre...