US authorities suspended the release of cryptocurrency Telegram Pavel Durov: who is next

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is convinced that the messenger tokens were sold illegally, writes the BBC. According to the SEC, the commission received a temporary ban order from the court against two offshore companies allegedly selling Gram tokens in the US and abroad. Telegram companies ...

US sued for $ 100 million Russian, laundered $ 4 billion through Bitcoins

The US prosecutor's office has filed a lawsuit in a California court against Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik, who is suspected of laundering $ 4 billion on a cryptocurrency exchange. The United States and Russia are seeking his extradition from Greece. In 2017, federal prosecutors charged him with theft ...

Russian paid over $ 9000 alimony with bitcoins

Bailiffs in the Kirov region found bank accounts where the debtor alimony kept his savings, and wrote off 600 thousand rubles ($ 9257) of debt in favor of his children. A resident of Kirov, who owed 600 thousand rubles in alimony to his two children, paid off in cryptocurrency, the UFSSP reported on ...

The founder of cryptobirds died, leaving customers without $ 145 million: no one knows the password to the assets

The death of a Canadian entrepreneur has left the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange unable to access a whopping $145 million worth of bitcoin and other digital assets. The thing is that only the 30-year-old founder and CEO had the password...

In Norway, kidnappers of the wife of one of the richest businessmen demand $ 10,4 million in cryptocurrency

In Norway, attackers kidnapped the wife of one of the richest people in the country, businessman Tom Hagen. 68-year-old Anna-Elisabeth Falkevik disappeared 10 weeks ago (at the end of October) from her family's home in Lorenskog, Meduza writes. Police sources told the newspaper that there were no signs of a burglary in the house. It is believed that the woman was attacked in the bathroom. The house was ...

Why bitcoin can create climate chaos in the coming years

Популярность биткоинов может привести в увеличению выбросов углекислого газа, что приведет к глобальному повышению температуры на 2 градуса по Цельсию  к 2033 году, говорится в новом исследовании. «Биткойн — это криптовалюта с жесткими требованиями к оборудованию», — сказал Рэнди Роллинз,…

California court agreed to release the accused on bail of $ 750 000 in bitcoins

According to the US Attorney's Office, the person accused of hacking into Digital Arts in Redwood City has been assigned a cryptocurrency bail. Martin Marsic, 25, a citizen of Serbia and Italy who lives in Udine, Italy, was arrested at San Francisco International Airport on August 8. For the first time in the federal ...

Co-founder of Bitcoin.com has sold all of its bitcoins

Emil Oldenburg, co-founder and CTO of one of the most famous specialized cryptocurrency sites Bitcoin.com, said that he "recently" sold all his savings in bitcoins. According to him, bitcoin is “as good as it is useless,” writes Tjournal. Swedish entrepreneur (last 3 ...

9 important facts about bitcoin

The Bitcoin cryptocurrency has been on everyone's lips lately. Investments in this currency turned out to be the most profitable in recent years, its growth is measured in thousands of percent. Bitcoin is not controlled by any government, and you can mine it yourself using powerful computers. Entrepreneur magazine collected 11 ...

Homeless in New York will acquire cryptocurrency

By Christmas, about 3 thousand homeless people in New York will receive smartphones with a crypto wallet, writes Fast Company. The initiative belongs to the Blockchain for Change startup. The authors of the project plan to distribute about 2018 thousand gadgets by mid-200. The app has an electronic wallet for dollars and ...

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