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Stanford Blockchain Club Challenges DOJ’s Tornado Cash Case

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The Stanford Blockchain Club, a prominent group at Stanford University, has voiced significant worries about the U.S. government’s legal pursuit of Tornado Cash developers, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, using old-school federal money transmission laws. Legal Overreach? Stanford Group Critiques Tornado Cash Indictments In their in-depth analysis, “Tornado Cash and the Boundaries of Money Transmission,” … Read more

Report: FTX Co-Founder SBF Retains White-Collar Lawyer Who Represented Ghislaine Maxwell

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On Dec. 6, 2022, the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) reportedly retained the attorney Mark Cohen, the lawyer that represented Ghislaine Maxwell during her recent sex trafficking case. SBF’s spokesperson further explained that the FTX co-founder is being consulted by a professor at Stanford Law School, David Mills. Sam Bankman-Fried Hires Attorney Who Represented … Read more

A New Academic Paper Describes 3 Attack Methods Against an Ethereum PoS Chain

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Following the Altair upgrade on the Ethereum network, the protocol’s native cryptocurrency reached a new all-time price high. Altair is the next step for the Ethereum’s network’s proof-of-stake (PoS) transition. However, a recently submitted white paper explains that a group of computer scientists from Stanford University and the Ethereum Foundation believe there are three attack … Read more

Blockchain Groups From Major Universities Are Powerful Voters in Defi Governance Protocols

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Data shows a number of groups from major universities are participating in decentralized finance (defi) governance. For instance, out of 15 of the largest voters in Uniswap’s last governance proposal, six of the major voters were tied to universities like Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Penn, Michigan, MIT, and Columbia University. Blockchain University Groups Identified as Major … Read more

Data Shows $25 Billion Worth of Bitcoin and Ether Held by Seven Crypto Exchanges

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On January 3, 2020, a small group of crypto enthusiasts celebrated the second annual Proof-of-Keys day with hopes to get people to withdraw funds from centralized digital currency exchanges. However, exchanges holding massive amounts of BTC only saw their reserves grow larger and data shows that Coinbase now holds 1 million BTC ($8.4 billion). Crypto … Read more

Digital Currency Donors and Crypto-Backed Endowments Fuel Higher Learning

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Digital asset holders and organizations have been donating funds to a number of well-known universities. These days a slew of popular colleges like Stanford, MIT, Cornell, Puget Sound, and Princeton all accept digital currency donations or have high-net-worth crypto backers funding these schools. On the flip side of higher education, many of the world’s prestigious … Read more

Lightning Network Co-Creator Is Designing a Scaling Solution Called Utreexo

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A blockchain researcher has been working on a scaling effort for the unspent transaction output set found in the Bitcoin protocol. According to Tadge Dryja’s recently published description of research, the software engineer is working on a dynamic accumulator called Utreexo. The project could theoretically allow network participants to verify the state of the chain’s … Read more