Tootfinder

How Russia-linked crypto exchanges, like Bitpapa, Exmo, and others help Russian entities move money across borders, bypassing banking oversight and sanctions (Elliptic)
https://www.elliptic.co/blog/russia-linked-cryptocurrency-services-and-sanctions-e…

Russia-linked cryptocurrency services and sanctions evasion
Despite growing enforcement, several cryptoasset exchanges continue to enable Russian sanctions evasion through wallet obfuscation and ruble-to-crypto trading.

Oops, the South Korean police posted a photo of their bust that included the master password for the cryptocurrency wallet they seized. An unknown person drained USD$4.8M from the account.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Want to attend Trump ‘VIP’ crypto event? Tickets now going for 80 percent off | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-vip-cryptocurrency-event-tickets-b2964640.html

Court filing: lobbyist Jack Abramoff spent $12,800 buying press for AML Bitcoin prior to his 2020 indictment; Forbes and the Daily Caller were among recipients (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/another-right-wi…

Folks, We’ve Got Yet Another Right-Wing Media Payola Scandal
This one involves Jack Abramoff’s crypto venture!

Folks, We've Got Yet Another Right-Wing Media Payola Scandal (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/another-right-wing-media-payola-scandal-cryptocurrency-abramoff-darling-andrade
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p154#a260323p154

Crypto platform Step Finance shutting down after $40 million theft https://therecord.media/step-finance-cryptocurrency-theft-shutdown

The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution
and scam compounds
nearly doubled in 2025,
according to a conservative estimate.
Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.
https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-funded-…

Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding
The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.

Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum and Rust Edition
[…] Cryptography is everywhere and as a developer you will need to upgrade your projects with post-quantum algorithms, whether because you care about the security of your users, or for compliance reasons. […]
🦀 https://kerkour.com/post-qua…

Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum and Rust Edition
There recently has been a lot of noise about quantum computing breakthroughs recently after Google's articles Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear and Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum

from my link log —
Cryptographic right answers: post quantum and Rust edition.
https://kerkour.com/post-quantum-cryptography-recommendations-rust
saved 2026-04-23

Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum and Rust Edition
There recently has been a lot of noise about quantum computing breakthroughs recently after Google's articles Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear and Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum

Scenario 2, “LLMs are the new cryptocurrency:” Regardless of whether the tech itself is useful or overblown, its wild overvaluation creates a massive wealth transfer to early (already wealthy) investors from later investors.
3/

"Gee, who did NotSee this coming?"
https://futurism.com/future-society/cryptocurrency-jeffrey-epstein-bitcoin

Trump family says U.S. dollar needs an upgrade, and they can do it
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/trump-eric-don-jr-cryptocurrency-world-liberty-financial.html

If you had a choice of one of these hypes and it meant the other hypes wouldn’t have happened, which one would you pick?
Cryptocurrency
NFTs
“AI”

Your #retirement fund should not be #crypto.
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=fake-le…

Nordstrom's email system abused to send crypto scams to customers
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nordstroms-email-system-abused-to-send-crypto-scams-to-customers/

Nordstrom's email system abused to send crypto scams to customers
Customers of upscale department store chain Nordstrom received fraudulent messages from a legitimate company email address that promoted cryptocurrency scams disguised as a St. Patrick's Day promotion.

Filings: crypto PACs amassed a ~$180M war chest for the 2026 midterms, including Fairshake's $166M, giving them the ability to outspend some GOP super PACs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/crypto-p…

Crypto PACs Amass $180 Million War Chest for Midterm Races
Political groups tied to the cryptocurrency industry are sitting on a nearly $180 million war chest ahead of this year’s midterm elections, giving it the ability to outspend even some of the Republican Party’s most prominent super PACs.

Well, some congressional hopefuls: "But only Chan and Chakrabarti agreed to participate in this interview, which focuses on AI, regulating Silicon Valley giants, cryptocurrency, and San Francisco’s own tech policies." Where's Wiener?
How S.F. congressional hopefuls view AI, crypto and tech

They want to represent S.F. in Congress. Here’s how they’d tackle AI, crypto and tech.
The job will involve a good deal of tech policy chops, and Mission Local decided to ask the hopefuls how they would approach Silicon Valley.

Well, some congressional hopefuls: "But only Chan and Chakrabarti agreed to participate in this interview, which focuses on AI, regulating Silicon Valley giants, cryptocurrency, and San Francisco’s own tech policies." Where's Wiener?
How S.F. congressional hopefuls view AI, crypto and tech

They want to represent S.F. in Congress. Here’s how they’d tackle AI, crypto and tech.
The job will involve a good deal of tech policy chops, and Mission Local decided to ask the hopefuls how they would approach Silicon Valley.

I cannot concur…
It’s not realistic to ask people to *never* click a link in email. We’ve got 30 years of experience with that advice not working because MUA developers have never stopped making links active & aggressively looking for anything in email that might be a link, regardless of URL conformance. That’s why SpamAssassin treats so many non-URLs as if they are URLs. Users will click clickable things. Telling them not to do so is unreasonable.
1/2

AI agent ROME frees itself, secretly mines cryptocurrency
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/07/ai-agents-rome-model-cryptocurrency

Fat Putin's never been held accountable for any crime or violation he's ever committed.
Without a change in Congress, this won't be any different.
☑️ Trump’s crypto ties pose growing obstacle on Capitol Hill - POLITICO
https://www.

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

Cryptocurrency supporters in Washington
have spent the last four years working to rinse the stench of Sam Bankman-Friedoff of legislative efforts that could legitimize digital assets.
Now, as the convicted former crypto tycoon publicly vies for a pardon,
the industry’s leading cheerleaders in Congress are urging Donald Trump not to take the bait.
Bankman-Fried,
who was convicted in 2023 on fraud charges after his FTX crypto exchange collapsed,
has been hea…

Cryptocurrency and AI industries tested their influence in Illinois. It didn't go that well (Matt Brown/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/crypto-ai-spending-illinois-election-influence-1dd012c903fe5092c4133b918ba4c088
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p66#a260318p66

The Invisible Ledger: How Digital Currency Threatens the Last Private Thing You Own
There is something seductive about the promise of digital money. It arrives dressed in the language of progress, efficiency, inclusion, and modernization, as though the ability to hold a coin in your hand were a primitive embarrassment that civilization ought to outgrow. Cryptocurrency evangelists speak of decentralization and freedom from institutional control. Central bankers speak of…

The Invisible Ledger: How Digital Currency Threatens the Last Private Thing You Own | David Boles, Blogs
There is something seductive about the promise of digital money. It arrives dressed in the language of progress, efficiency, inclusion, and modernization, as though the ability to hold a coin in yo…

The US government has published its Cyber Strategy, which emphasises protecting cryptocurrency and promoting post-quantum cryptography.
Reading between the lines, I assume the US government is preparing to divest itself of (non-PQ) Bitcoin holdings.
https://www.

White House Unveils President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America
The White House today released “President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America,” outlining the Administration’s priorities for ensuring that America remains

Crypto transaction volume linked to suspected human trafficking, largely based in Southeast Asia, hit hundreds of millions of dollars in 2025, up 85% YoY (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-human-trafficking-2026/

Crypto and Human Trafficking: 2026 Crypto Crime Report
Cryptocurrency flows to suspected human trafficking services surged 85% between 2024 and 2025, reaching a scale of hundreds of millions.

'Gizmodo reports the Trump sons “bragged” how opening their own crypto company has given them “credibility.” Gizmodo counters that World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin, USD1, is “a fiat-backed cryptocurrency that the Trumps have tried to tout as a brilliant hedge against the traditional financial system, an argument that doesn’t make much sense given how dependent it is on that same system for stability.”'
Trump's sons brag about their 'retribution' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-crypto-2675281925/

#Crypto-Funded Human #Trafficking Is Exploding
The use of #cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for #prostitution

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the crypto exchange has confidentially filed for a US IPO; it was valued at $13.3B this month, down from a $20B peak in late 2025 (Cory Schouten/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2026/k…

Kraken has filed confidentially for IPO, co-CEO of crypto exchange confirms
At Semafor World Economy, Kraken CEO Arjun Sethi confirmed that the cryptocurrency exchange has filed confidentially to go public.

The UK’s top diplomat on Thursday rejected Iran’s toll plan for the Strait of Hormuz, characterizing the effort as a “hijacking” of the crucial transit route.
Iran is reportedly planning to charge firms in cryptocurrency to pass through the strait
— $1 per barrel of oil
— a move that reflects how the regime’s digital currency ecosystem has grown due to sanctions and the rial’s devaluation, The Wall Street Journal wrote.
Global powers are watching closely:
US Gr…

UK rejects Iran’s Hormuz toll plan
The UK’s top diplomat on Thursday rejected Iran’s toll plan for the Strait of Hormuz, characterizing the effort as a “hijacking” of the crucial transit route.

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb says it accidentally sent $44B worth of bitcoin to customers as promotional rewards and has recovered 99.7% of it (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/cryp…

Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a9de2bb5-7bbf-4d04-9424-25d4b9cda2b6

#Crypto-Funded Human #Trafficking Is Exploding
The use of #cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for #prostitution

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/02/04

Incognito Market founder Rui-Siang Lin sentenced to 30 years in crypto darknet drug marketplace case
U.S. prosecutors say the Taiwanese operator of the $105 Million Incognito Market used cryptocurrency and anonymity tools before investigators tied him to the platform through domain records and digital traces.

Good Morning #Canada
Yesterday my wife and I had to pay for a small renovation which necessitated some budget shuffling. Needless to say we didn't make the list of the Richest Canadians. The McLeans and Canadian Business 2025 ranking saw lots of new names, which is surprising because $4.8B only earns you a spot at #40. Tech, primarily AI and data centre related, and cryptocurrency pushed some fortunes upwards, while the usual group of staid family wealth looked on with disdain. The saying "the rich gets richer" holds true as the combined net worth of the 10 wealthiest people on the list is $310 billion, a nearly 20% increase over 2024. It's difficult to read the individual summaries and not be disappointed at the level of wealth disparity with the bottom 50% of Canadians. IMO Governments avoid higher taxes on the wealthy because they believe Capitalism drives the economy, not the people who work for capitalists.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Capitalism #TaxTheRich
The Rich List - Macleans.ca
https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-rich-list/