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Scorechain released its latest report on Bitcoin transactions during the last 5 years (2016-2020) to give its perspective on the associated money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF) risks. Download the FREE report here: https://scorechain.com/bitcoin_transactions_ml_tf_risks It has been more than a decade now that Bitcoin has been released. During this »
This article was published in French on February 28th, 2021: https://www.cointribune.com/actualites/les-plus-grands-scams-de-lecosysteme-crypto-en-2020/ Although cryptocurrencies are revolutionizing traditional financial systems, they are also used for scams such as Ponzi schemes, ransomware and high-yield investments. Take the well-known example of PlusToken. This Ponzi pyramid allowed its creators to steal several billion in crypto »
Key takeaways: Since last year, there has been a boom in the usage of DeFi protocols and platforms, and amongst them DEXs. An increased risk of ML/TF derives from DeFi and DEXs due to a lack of KYC/AML standards. Scorechain released a report to analyze the state of ML/TF through »
How the Lightning Network has been used until now? Scorechain data team just released the use of the Lightning network over the past year. The graph tells us that lightning network use was very popular at the beginning of its creation with some pics at more than 2,000 payment channel »
By design, the Bitcoin Blockchain is transparent but anonymous. The use of mixing platforms or mixing transaction techniques has started at the early beginning of the network and gained popularity over the years. As we can see from the graph above, the mixing activity was extremely popular during the year »
On June 10, around 1 pm Paris Time, an astonishing transaction occurred: a wallet sent 0.55 ETH with a 10,666 ETH which is 115 euros worth transaction for a transaction fee around €2.3 million at this time (210000 ETH Gas). Transaction fees are normally set by the network but in »
As part of providing risk aml solutions for cryptocurrency assets, at Scorechain we also provide trading information looking at services and exchanges inflows and outflows. Let’s have a look at this notable correlation between the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, Bitcoin price and exchanges on-chain trades. Can the recent event related to »
Take a look at Scorechain research result about the number of transactions containing MultiSig addresses! Was the evolution since March 2018 due to the Lightning Network ? Follow us on our social medias for more researches! Linkedin or Twitter »
Who are the great winners and losers for BTC exchange in 2018? Take a look at graph with the results results based on the variation of the balance of wallets! Follow us on our social medias for more researches! Linkedin or Twitter »
