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German Securities Processing Giant dwpbank Launches wpNex Platform Allowing Over 1,200 Banks to Offer Bitcoin Transactions to Retail Customers

Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG (dwpbank), a German securities processing giant that oversees over 5.3 million securities accounts, announced the launch of wpNex, a platform...

Germany calls for global regulation of the cryptocurrency industry

Mark Branson, chairman of Germany's financial market regulator BaFin, said an approach that "would simply let the industry grow as a playground for adults"...

Why Germany holds the key to crypto regulation in Europe

In January 2019, while the U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC) Commission was out to lunch, Germany’s regulator quietly licensed the country’s first STO. Bitbond, the...

Germany Proposes Government-Run Register For Blockchain Industry

Germany wants its blockchain regulations to align with EU laws.On March 1, Germany's justice and finance ministries released a proposal to develop a state-run...

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Brooklyn man sentenced for $16M Coinbase phishing scam

Ronald Spektor, 23, sentenced to 4–12 years for stealing nearly $16 million from roughly 100 Coinbase usersHe posed as...

OpenAI AI agent breaches Australian government Medicare site

An AI agent breached Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service in June, accessing public and non-public files.Australian Prime Minister Anthony...

Claude AI discovers unknown enzyme system in viruses

Anthropic's AI model Claude spent 21 hours and roughly 210 million tokens searching DNA databases, leading to the discovery...