US Sanctions Nobitex in Major Blow to Iran’s Crypto Network

Singapore Police and Chainalysis blocked $4.2M in crypto scam losses, reaching 145+ victims in a six-week anti-scam operation. The Singapore Police Force has wrapped up a second joint anti-scam operation. Working alongside Chainalysis and several cryptocurrency exchanges, the Anti-Scam Centre and Cyber Investigation Branch stopped over $4.2 million in potential losses.  The six-week operation ran […] The post Chainalysis and Singapore Police Block $4.2M in Crypto Scam Losses appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control blacklisted Nobitex and three other Iranian cryptocurrency platforms for allegedly aiding in the funding of terrorism and sanctions evasion. Nobitex is the biggest digital asset exchange in Iran. According to the Treasury Department, Nobitex handled over half of Iran’s digital asset

Bitcoin price is testing the key $65,000 support zone after Iran’s retaliatory strikes against the U.S. spooked investors, with charts suggesting a deeper slide toward $60,000 if bears remain in control. According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin (BTC) fell 4.5%…

The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned four Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges and two senior executives at Nobitex after accusing the platforms of helping sanctioned entities access the digital asset ecosystem. According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the latest action targets…

Bitcoin saw its largest daily drop since early February on Tuesday as the cryptocurrency shed more than $4,500 in a single day.

The sanctions come four days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US had seized nearly $1 billion in crypto from Iranian crypto exchanges and wallets since late February.

It should have taken years, but Ash Koosha made a drama about Iran’s anti-government protests in weeks – and now it’s the first AI-made movie to screen at a major film festival. It could transform indie film-making, claims the director Next week a breakthrough 75-minute drama about the brutal crackdown in Iran on anti-government protesters in January will premiere at the Tribeca film festival in New York. It is called Dreams of Violets and is based on journalism, video footage and eyewitness accounts. “I would say 80% of it is a recreation of events that actually happened,” says its Iranian-British director Ash Koosha. But Dreams of Violets is a work of fiction, not a documentary: a drama following a group of strangers caught up in the protests, who meet by chance in an alleyway. How on earth has Koosha managed to pull together a drama about the killings in less than six months? The answer, it turns out, is by using artificial intelligence. Every image and character in Dreams of Violet