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View More NewsIn brief Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau has reportedly accessed a wallet containing 500 Bitcoin worth $34 million (€30 million), the first of 12 wallets seized in 2019. The wallets hold 6,000 Bitcoin now valued at $418 million (€360 million), originally seized from cannabis cultivator Clifton Collins. Europol provided technical expertise and decryption resources to crack the wallet after Collins claimed to have lost the seed phrases in a break-in. Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) has gained access to a Bitcoin wallet containing around 500 BTC, worth approximately $34 million (€30 million), marking the first successful breach of 12 wallets seized…
Some Supreme Court justices are so eager to demonstrate their independence, President Donald Trump complained last week, that they “openly disrespect the Presidents who nominate them.” A few days later, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R–Okla.), who was confirmed this week as secretary of homeland security, explained why he had called Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) “a freaking snake”: It “seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us,” Mullin told Paul. Trump and Mullin take it for granted that public officials should be prepared to sacrifice their principles on the altar of party loyalty. But those officials, whether they serve…
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