Polish police find Bitcoin mining rig inside the police station
    04 Aug 2021
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    Polish Bitcoin miners took the idea of hiding in plain sight to a new level when they placed the rack with operating crypto machines inside police headquarters. As local media reported, Polish police have found a crypto-mining rig within its own police station. Warsaw police told the local news outlet Gazeta Wyborcza it has discovered…

    US officials hire a cryptocurrency firm to hold Bitcoin it’s seizing
    04 Aug 2021
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    Following a rise in crypto-related crimes, federal law enforcement is seizing a lot of crypto assets. Now the US government has hired a cryptocurrency firm to hold all its Bitcoin seizures. This week, Anchorage Digital, a small crypto safekeeping platform, revealed its contract with the Department of Justice to store and liquidate digital assets that…

    Emirates on the path to their own CBDC
    04 Aug 2021
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    The United Arab Emirates has included the development of a national digital currency (CBDC) as a point in the country’s Central Bank development strategy for 2023-2026. But the path there was not easy: initially, it was conceived of as a monetary unit for several Arab countries at once. In early July, it became known that…