Chinese law enforcement officers opened a criminal case against a resident of Heilongjiang Province, who was convicted of stealing electricity from an oil production installation for bitcoin mining. To this end, he laid electrical cable along the bottom of fish ponds. This is reported by the local edition of the Global Times. The police found a shed not far from the oil pumping unit, in which there were 20 mining devices for cryptocurrency. The building is practically from […]
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Russia plans to require international payment systems to transfer the authentication function of bank customers for online payments to the National Payment Card System (NSPK). This is stated in the amendments to the law "On the national payment system," awaiting a second reading. This is a 3D Secure protocol that provides additional security when making online purchases and other cash transactions. An SMS, […]
Bitfinex announced the launch of the UNUS SED LEO own tokens burning mechanism, and also presented a “transparency initiative” for public control over this process. It is a combinated real-time tokenomics dashboard. https://t.co/cAqEjlI8yM pic.twitter.com/4Sz1dYnxCc – Bitfinex (@bitfinex) June 14, 2019 So, […]
Facebook hired the well-known lobbyist Edward Bowles of Standard Chartered, a British banking corporation, to work on an alleged payment network based on steaklkoin GlobalCoin in a project codenamed Libra, reports the Financial Times. It is assumed that he will completely go to Facebook as early as September of this year. At the same time on his page in LinkedIn the place of work is still […]
Due to the large influx of those wishing to take part in the international competition of traders World Series trading tournament (WSOC), which will soon be held at the Waves DEX exchange, the organizers decided to extend the registration period until June 19. The tournament itself will be held from June 20 to June 27, 2019. According to the founder and the general […]
Visa, Mastercard, PayPal y Uber se encuentran entre los inversionistas del proyecto de criptomoneda Facebook, escribe The Wall Street Journal . Según la publicación, la red social ha ganado el apoyo de más de una docena de organizaciones que han mostrado interés en su criptomoneda GlobalCoin . Cada uno de ellos invertirá unos $ 10 millones en un consorcio que asumirá la función de gestión del proyecto. Los fondos recibidos se utilizarán para proporcionar una steyblecoin vinculada a una cesta de monedas nacionales. El WSJ también menciona que Stripe, Booking.com y MercadoLibre están participando en el proyecto, pero su rol…
A resident of Cherkessk was the victim of cryptocurrency fraudsters, having lost almost two million rubles. It is reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Karachay-Cherkessia. The victim wanted to purchase cryptocurrency via the Internet, for which he contacted a “analyst of a clearing company”. Grief-investor told the scammer "codes and account numbers of two of their bank cards", in which the total amount was 1 million 922 thousand rubles. However, the operation on […]
Europol is developing a computer game that will allow employees to train to track cryptocurrency transactions in criminal offenses. The creation of the game, which will provide "practical training", the police service announced during the Cryptocurrency Conference. Cryptocurrency experts met at Europol to strengthen ties btw law enforcement & private sector. Cryptocurrency wallets, exchanges & payment processors discussed best practices in implementing policies […]
Coinbase, the largest US cryptocurrency company and Bitcoin startup Circle, intend to expand the consortium Center, created to support and promote the steakcoin ecosystem USDC. This means that from now on, third-party companies can join the organization. CENTER is open for business! You're inviting broader membership and industry participation. Read on the USDC issuer, the inner workings of […]
BitBay Cryptocurrency Exchange conducted a survey among users from Poland in an attempt to create a portrait of the local community and find out what coins and for what purposes they use, reports CoinDesk. Immediately it should be noted that the survey indicates an extremely low involvement of women in the cryptocurrency industry. 90% of respondents are men, of which 50% are under forty. The largest demographic group were […]