# Making sense of the Bitfinex Bitcoin billions

# Making sense of the Bitfinex Bitcoin billions

“# Making sense of the Bitfinex Bitcoin billions ” It’s the Netflix script that wrote itself. A story so outlandish, it’s stunned the crypto community; an industry accustomed to apparent suicides in Spanish jail cells and nonfungible token auctions for dead rappers. The plot involves the United States Department of Justice (DoJ), a crypto exchange…

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# .5B in stolen BTC from Bitfinex hack awakens

# $2.5B in stolen BTC from Bitfinex hack awakens

“# $2.5B in stolen BTC from Bitfinex hack awakens ” A chunk of the inactive Bitcoins (BTC) stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack has moved from the hacker’s wallets to an unknown wallet on Tuesday, as detected by blockchain analytics bot Whale Alerts. 20 transactions involving the stolen Bitcoins were flagged. A sum of…

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# Crypto exchange Bitfinex testing new AML compliance tool

# Crypto exchange Bitfinex testing new AML compliance tool

“# Crypto exchange Bitfinex testing new AML compliance tool ” Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex is preparing to test out a new Anti-Money Laundering (AML) tool on its platform. The firm announced Wednesday that it will be testing a new solution designed for complying with the “Travel Rule,” an AML/Counter Financing of Terrorism regulation for financial institutions introduced…

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# Bitfinex paid a colossal M fee to send 0K of USDT

# Bitfinex paid a colossal $23M fee to send $100K of USDT

“# Bitfinex paid a colossal $23M fee to send $100K of USDT ” Crypto exchange Bitfinex completed a highly consequential transaction today when sending $100,000 of the stablecoin Tether (USDT) to the layer-2 subsidiary platform DeversiFi. For reasons unknown, the exchange paid 7,676 ETH, equivalent to $23.7 million, marking quite possibly the largest gas fee ever-recorded…

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