Sanctions News

Griffith will likely spend the next two months in jail before his trial in September.

Russia needs to move to Bitcoin to provide a “real financial instrument enabling independence in foreign trade settlements,” Deripaska argued.

A difficult-to-enforce ban may actually be part of a larger sanctions-avoidance strategy.

As the Kremlin sequesters funds to the opposition, Bitcoin serves to run blockades.

But security tokens are not ready to take over the world quite yet.

BitPay apparently screened merchants but not customers.

The settlement repeats the Treasury's message that crypto companies will need to know their customers.

Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro claims the country will “use all the cryptocurrencies in the world” to bypass U.S. sanctions.

2020 has apparently been the year of privacy wallets, as more exchanges onboard KYC requirements.

This seemingly fight-or-flight response to blockchain’s rising ubiquity may be too little, too late.

The Venezuelan army turns to crypto mining as the country's economy collapses.

The Director of National Intelligence wants to have the SEC’s leader briefed on the dangers of the U.S. falling behind in crypto.

Government lawyers implied that citizens could legally pass along nuclear secrets to North Korea if held to the same standards as Griffith.

Monetary reforms and a lack of regulation mean crypto is booming in Cuba.

Cubans are interested in Bitcoin as other major digital payment options like PayPal are unavailable.