US Treasury
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Swan’s banking and custodial partners “will no longer service clients who directly interact with bitcoin mixing services” the company told users Friday
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Accountants and exchanges have started to parse through the new IRS tax proposals and decipher what they could mean for investors and the future of the industry
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Individuals who only engage in distributed ledger validation, including miners and stakers, are exempt from broker requirements, Treasury officials said
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Two founders are charged with money laundering a week after a judge opted to back up sanctions against Tornado Cash
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Waters isn’t a fan of the Republican crypto bill draft, and she wants regulators to back her up
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Reps. Brad Sherman and Stephen Lynch earlier this week asked the Treasury and IRS to “promptly” issue regulations to address tax evasion in crypto
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“If you have a spreadsheet with money in it, you have to rewrite some cells and some formulas if the United States defaults”
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The US Treasury has previously sanctioned Lazarus Group, wallet addresses and two Chinese nationals
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Crypto policy group steps up to support plaintiffs suing the US Treasury, OFAC for Tornado Cash sanctions
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The independent bureau within the US Treasury Department is asking financial institutions to tread carefully when dealing with crypto and related firms
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FinCEN, charged with combating money laundering, wants to see if DeFi filters through the regulator’s existing frameworks
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Sanctions on open source technology may have “a chilling effect on innovation,” Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said
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OFAC’s decision suggests that all protocols are subject to the same compliance obligations
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It was promising to see no contagion to the banking system as a result of UST’s demise, the official said
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The Treasury Secretary can mint a $1 trillion platinum coin to avoid defaulting on our debt.
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Foreign debt buying soars as central banks look to trade their US dollars for treasury bills
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