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Israel orders seizure of 187 crypto wallets it links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
Israel’s counter terror financing body has ordered the seizure of 187 crypto wallets it says belong to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, according to a notice on a government website. Cryptocurrencies enable people to send money around the world without using the mainstream financial system. The underlying blockchain technology creates a record of transactions where senders and receivers are identified only by their wallet addresses, which are a string of letters and numbers. Israel’s National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing, part of the country’s defence ministry, did not say how it had identified the wallets ... (full story)