Tags: Censorship

A decision by bloXroute Labs to start censoring OFAC-sanctioned blocks has been seen as a loss for Ethereum censorship resistance.

Dashjr rejected blame for accusations aimed against Ocean and asked Samourai Wallet to fix the bug “on your end.”

The list of top censorship offenders is populated by popular platforms such as Binance, Celsius Network, Bitfinex, Ledger Live, Huobi (HTX) and Coinbase.

Patreon creators had difficulties getting paid in August, while OnlyFans once tried to ban porn on the platform, forcing creators to look at alternatives, including Web3.

The 689 Ether, worth nearly $1.3 million, is the largest reward received since the 691 Ether reward on March 20 paid to Lido.

Midjourney AI bans the creation of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s images, but users find ways to create deepfakes.

A new research report alleges widespread illicit misuse of the Cash App payments platform. The bigger risk may be centralized, politicized payments services themselves. (Shutterstock)

Venmo blacklisted the die-hard crypto skeptic. Maybe now he’ll see the light.

For the first time since October, fewer than 50 of new blocks over a 24-hour period are OFAC compliant, partially thanks to more non-censoring options that make up a larger share of the blockspace market.

Back in November, the percentage of Ethereum blocks complying with orders from the Office of Foreign Asset Control peaked at 79.

A notification from Apple says that Damus ‘includes content that is illegal in China.‘

A rather unsavory image made it to the front page of the Ordinals website for 30 minutes before it was hidden, however, the image itself is immutable.

The Damus app is powered by Nostr which uses decentralized relays to distribute end-to-end encrypted messages.

The blacklist manager was unveiled last October and is part of Bitcoin SV’s digital asset recovery process.

Account abstraction – a concept recently embraced by Visa – could make Ethereum wallets significantly more user friendly.

Staked ETH withdrawals, scalability and more cool events are on the horizon for Ethereum.

Ethereum’s year was marked by reductions to energy costs and improved scalability, but it was also racked by hacks and “censorship.”