A relatively quiet week with news of arrests and fines popping up from law enforcement agencies from across the world. IOHK published a very interesting whitepaper on 51% attacks, future SushiSwap clones have an interesting backdoor to exploit, brainwallets are still a really bad idea, politicians are stealing government’s electricity to mine crypto and other news in this week’s edition.
News
OKEx founder, Xu Mingxing, arrested in China. The exchange has suspended withdrawals citing the need for the key held by Xu.
FinCEN fined Larry Dean Harmon $60M for running coin-mixing services Helix and Coin Ninja. A separate investigation is running in parallel on charges of conspiracy to launder money and operating an unlicensed money transmitter.
Several prefectures in Japan received bomb threats demanding 40BTC to avoid the disaster. The incident is similar to the series of bomb threats demanding Bitcoin sent to various government agencies in 2018.
Vulnerabilities
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