Coinbase Crypto Exchange Selling Transaction Tracing Data to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Report

Top US crypto exchange Coinbase is licensing software that aggregates information about blockchain transactions to a federal law enforcement agency. According to a new report by The Intercept, the Homeland Security Investigations wing of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has purchased a software tool called Coinbase Tracer, available for both government and private sector clients. The original contract dates back to August of last year, but only recently did Jack Poulson of the Tech Inquiry watchdog organization gain access to the details through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.…

Ignite CEO announces departure after seven years

Peng Zhong, the chief executive officer of Ignite — formerly Tendermint and backer of the Cosmos ecosystem — has announced he will be leaving the firm. In a Friday tweet to his more than 20,000 followers, Zhong said Friday will be his last day at Ignite, where he has been working as CEO since May 2020. Prior to that, the now-former Ignite CEO was chief design officer at the firm’s Kuala Lumpur and Toronto offices since he started in 2015. It’s unclear what led to his decision to leave the…

So You Want to Be a Bitcoin Developer?

“I got a job at the Electric Coin Company, creators of Zcash, which is a code fork of Bitcoin Core. I happened to find a minor bug in Zcash and discovered it also existed ‘upstream.’ So I opened my first Bitcoin Core pull request to fix the bug. It merged quickly, so I assumed it was pretty easy to get changes into Bitcoin Core. (This belief was naive.),” Ruane said. Original

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