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Coders push ZK ‘Secret Santa’ system towards deployment

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Ethereum developers are tweaking a zero-knowledge protocol designed to bring stronger privacy guarantees to on-chain interactions, starting with a “Secret Santa”-style matching system that could evolve into a broader toolkit for private coordination. Solidity engineer Artem Chystiakov resurfaced in an Ethereum community forum post on Monday, highlighting work he first published in January on arXiv. […]

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Sanctioned Cambodian lender Huione, linked to illicit crypto, faces bank failure

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Cambodian company Huione Pay, a central node in the Huione family of financial firms targeted by U.S. sanctions, froze withdrawals on Monday and suspended operations for more than a month, sparking panic among users who rushed to its headquarters seeking access to their savings, according to local media. U.S. regulators and authorities have long warned

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Bitcoin Could Fall to $65,000, Which Would Mean Disaster for Alts

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Bitcoin briefly fell below $83,000 late Monday as low liquidity, weekend macroeconomic fear in Japan and growing fears over a possible change in MSCI methodology converged into a rapid and disorderly decline. Prices surpassed $85,000 during Asian hours on Tuesday morning, along with XRP and ether. ETH$2,801.69Cardano’s ADA, Solana’s SOL and BNB Chain’s BNB show

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BTC traders bet on another year below $80,000: drift

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Bitcoin BTC$86,967.20 traders are increasingly taking defensive positions, preparing for a potential price decline below $80,000 in the new year. “Skew’s sharp decline shows traders are stacking their puts, especially leading up to the Dec. 26 expiration where open interest was focused on the $84,000 and $80,000 strike prices,” Nick Forster, co-founder of Derive, said

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Michael Saylor and Strategy (MSTR) raise cash to fund preferred dividends

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Faced with questions from critics about its ability to finance the dividends of its various classes of preferred shares, Strategy (MSTR) and its executive chairman Michael Saylor announced Monday morning the formation of a reserve of 1.44 billion US dollars. The reserve was built through the sale of common stock last week and the company

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Authorities from Europol, Switzerland and Germany seize Bitcoin laundering service Cryptomixer worth $1.51 billion

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Cryptomixer, a cryptocurrency mixing service allegedly used by cybercriminals to launder illicit bitcoins BTC$86,866.20was dismantled during a coordinated operation by law enforcement in Zurich, the European Union (EU) police agency Europol announced on Monday. The dismantling, carried out from November 24 to 28 by Swiss and German police alongside Europol, resulted in the seizure of

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BONK slips 9% as technical outage overshadows Swiss ETP debut

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BONK slipped 9.32% to $0.000008805 over the past 24 hours, extending a sharp decline that pushed the Solana-based memecoin to new cycle lows. The decline occurred despite a major milestone for the asset last week: Bitcoin Capital AG listed the first exchange-traded product (ETP) BONK on the Swiss exchange SIX on November 27. The breakdown

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