Week in the Privacy News 2024-14

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Research

Seth4Privacy: Proposed Bitcoin Privacy Improvements

Freesamourai.com : Founders And CEO Of Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Arrested And Charged With Money Laundering And Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses

Wired: A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

Ecosystem

Wasabi Wallet Blog: zkSNACKs is Discontinuing its Coinjoin Coordination Service 1st of June

Tether blog: Tether Enhances Compliance Measures with Chainalysis Ecosystem Monitoring Solution

Governments

Patrick Breyer: Pirates: EU cash cap and ban on anonymous hosted crypto wallets results in financial paternalism

Bitcoin Magazine: Samourai Did Nothing Wrong, Self Custodial Tools Are Not Money Transmitters

Blaze: The feds are trying to stifle Bitcoin and crypto with draconian new regulations

TechCabal: Exclusive: P2P crypto ban imminent as Nigeria calls crypto a national security issue

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Upcoming events

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• May 24-26, ETHBerlin hackathon
• May 30, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Prague) conference
• Jun 7-9, MoneroKon (Prague) conference & hackathon
• Jun 19-26, Web3Privacy Now Hackathon (Bled)
• Oct 4-6, Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) (Prague) conference
• Oct 4-6, ETHRome hackathon
• Oct, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Brno) conference
• Oct, ETHBrno hackathon