• Unchained’s Laura Shin interviewed Haseeb Awan, the New York Times source who connected them to the alleged Twitter hackers. [Laura Shin // Unchained]

• Fortune’s Robert Hackett unpacked how the hackers are going to have one hell of a time cashing out on their earnings. [Robert Hackett // Fortune]

• Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis traced some of the stolen funds to bitcoin mixing service Wasabi Wallet. 

  • Speaking of Chainalysis, the company just launched a free website that shows insights into on-chain transactions. [Mike Orcutt // The Block]

• The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced last week that it’ll allow national banks and federal savings associations to hold cryptocurrencies for their customers. [Michael McSweeney // The Block]

  • Coin Center’s Peter Van Valkenburgh explains why this is a big deal and signals that U.S. policy is becoming increasingly crypto-friendly. [Peter Van Valkenburgh // Coin Center]

• Coinbase is spearheading an effort among major crypto-exchanges to design a system that’ll allow for user information sharing under Financial Action Task Force’s rules. [Aislinn Keely & Michael McSweeney // The Block]

• Visa and Mastercard and both stepping up their crypto-game and working to make the technology more accessible to its users.

• The Philippines launched a blockchain application to distribute government bonds last week. [Mohammad Musharraf // Cointelegraph]

• In a Coindesk podcast, reporter Anna Baydakova sat down with executives of two non-custodial, no-KYC bitcoin exchanges to get their perspectives on why they don’t feel the need to keep track of user data on their platforms. Their argument: privacy above all else. [Anna Baydakov // Coindesk]

• Paypal will now reportedly allow crypto-trading through a new partnership with stablecoin company Paxos. [Adrian Zmudzinski // Cointelegraph]

• Executives of the Canadian crypto trading platform Coinsquare have resigned after encouraging employees to make fake trade on the exchange. [Sebastian Sinclair // Coindesk]

• Apparently, there is going to be a Korean crypto-drama airing soon called “Romantic Hacker.” [Felipe Erazo // Cointelegraph]

BLM Reads

As has been widely covered, coronavirus health outcomes have disproportionately affected black and brown communities. Many media outlets have taken to covering the racial implications of coronavirus, including in prisons where the majority of incarcerated men and women are people of color.

Take some time today to check out The Marshall Project’s excellent coverage of COVID19 outbreaks in U.S. jails and prisons. It’s important and it’s not being discussed enough. Here are some of my favorite of their recent pieces

• Freed From Prison, Dead from COVID-19, Not Even Counted [Joseph Neff & Dan Kane // The Marshall Project]

• Prison Populations Drop by 100,000 During Pandemic [Damini Sharma, Weihua Li, Denise Lavoie, & Claudia Lauer // The Marshall Project]

• A State-by-State Look at Coronavirus in Prisons [The Marshall Project staff]