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Bitcoin การเข้ารหัสลับกระทรวงการคลังสหรัฐฯ คว่ำบาตร Crypto Mixer รายแรก – กฎระเบียบ Bitcoin News05 / 07 / 2022ข่าว Bitcoin Ethereum The U.S. Department of the Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued its first-ever sanctions on a crypto mixer. The mixing service was used by Lazarus Group to process illicit proceeds from the $620 million crypto heist of the online game Axie Infinity, said the Treasury Department. Treasury Department Sanctions Crypto Mixer The U.S. Department of the Treasury‘s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) anounced Friday that it has sanctioned crypto mixer Blender.io (Blender). According to the OFAC, this mixing service is used by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) “to support its malicious cyber activities and money-laundering of stolen virtual currency.” The anouncement explains that on March 23, Lazarus Group, a DPRK state-sponsored cyber hacking group, carried out the largest cryptocurrency heist to date, worth almost $620 million, of a blockchain project linked to the online game Axie Infinity. The OFAC added: Blender was used in processing over $20.5 million of the illicit proceeds. The OFAC sanctioned the Lazarus Group on Sept. 13, 2019, and “identified it as an agency, instrumentality, or controlled entity of the government of the DPRK,” the anouncement adds. The designation is