THELOGICALINDIAN - Coinbase is affairs its blockchain analytics software to the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Secret Service Following criticisms from the crypto association CEO Brian Armstrong dedicated Coinbases position
Coinbase Selling Analytics Software to US Government
Public annal on the U.S. government’s websites acknowledge that the San Francisco-based crypto barter Coinbase has active a contract with the U.S. government for its blockchain analytics software. The annal were aboriginal spotted by The Block.
The contract, awarded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was active on May 9. It went into aftereffect the abutting day with a acting end date of May 11, 2024. The answerable bulk is currently $49,000 and the abeyant accolade bulk is $183,750. The application bureau is the U.S. Secret Service, a federal bureau that investigates budgetary crimes such as artifice and counterfeiting; it was transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Homeland Security on March 1, 2003.
Following the account of Coinbase affairs its analytics software to the U.S. Secret Service, abounding bodies took to Twitter to criticize the company’s action, with some advancement others to “delete Coinbase,” adage that the aggregation is “bad for bitcoin and crypto.”
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong bound dedicated his company’s decision. “Blockchain analytics software is annihilation new – has been about a continued time – it uses about accessible abstracts to try and clue crypto affairs – usually to bolt bad actors,” he tweeted.
Armstrong proceeded to explain that his aggregation started off by application some of the absolute blockchain analytics casework out there. “This formed out ok, but the affair with it was that we don’t like administration abstracts with third parties back we can abstain it, and they didn’t abutment all the features/chains we needed. So we accomplished at some point we would charge to accompany this adequacy in house,” the CEO described, elaborating:
Last month, it was appear that Coinbase capital to advertise its analytics software to two added U.S. government agencies: the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Meanwhile, the aggregation is reportedly planning an antecedent accessible alms (IPO) in the U.S.
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