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Submission + - Coinbase Blocks 25,000 Crypto Wallets Linked to Russia Users (bloombergquint.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 07, 2022 @05:12PM

An anonymous reader writes: Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase said it blocked over 25,000 wallet addresses related to Russian individuals or entities that it believes to be engaging in illicit activity. The blocked addresses represent about 0.2% of Coinbase’s 11.4 million monthly transacting users, based on 2021 data. In a company blog, Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, said the largest U.S. crypto exchange has banned access for sanctioned individuals and is using blockchain analytics to identify addresses potentially linked to them, which it also adds to an internal blocklist. “Today, Coinbase blocks over 25,000 addresses related to Russian individuals or entities we believe to be engaging in illicit activity, many of which we have identified through our own proactive investigations,” Grewal wrote. “We shared them with the government to further support sanctions enforcement.”

Comment I wonder (Score 1) 483

by newsyBee on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:50PM (#57868606) Attached to: A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds

Would this study still be so thoroughly criticized here if the subject wasn't women?

Submission + - Music Industry Asks US Government to Reconsider Website Blocking (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:37PM

An anonymous reader writes: At the start of this decade, US lawmakers drafted several controversial bills to make it easier for copyright holders to enforce their rights online. These proposals, including SOPA and PIPA, were met with fierce resistance from the public as well as major technology companies. They feared that the plans, which included pirate site-blocking measures, went too far. In the many years that followed, the “site blocking” issue was avoided like the plague. The aversion was mostly limited to the US, as website blocking became more and more common abroad, where it’s one of the entertainment industries’ preferred anti-piracy tools.

Emboldened by these foreign successes, it appears that rightsholders in the US are now confident enough to bring the subject up again, albeit very gently. Most recently the site-blocking option was mentioned in a joint letter from the RIAA and the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), which contained recommendations to the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) Vishal Amin. The IPEC requested input from the public on the new version of its Joint Strategic Plan for Intellectual Property Enforcement. According to the music industry groups, website blocking should be reconsidered an anti-piracy tool.

Submission + - France to close 14 nuclear & 4 remaining coal power plants. (cleantechnica.com)

Submitted by Socguy on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @07:49PM

Socguy writes: French President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech on Tuesday in which he announced a raft of new energy policies, including a promise to close the country’s remaining four coal-fired power plants by 2022 and 14 of the country’s 900 MW first-generation nuclear reactors by 2035.

The generation capacity will be replaced with wind and solar.

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