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The Washington District Attorney's Office has charged a Singapore citizen with stealing computing power and cloud mining services for cryptocurrency mining for a total of $ 5 million. Together, he faces up to 32 years in prison. According to the prosecutor’s statement, from October 2017 to February 2018, 29-year-old Matthew Ho conducted a “large-scale cryptocurrency mining operation,” […]

Intercontinental Exchange, the operator of the Bakkt cryptocurrency platform, plans to launch new bitcoin derivatives. About it writes The Block, citing its own sources. According to their information, Bakkt will soon open trading on options for the first cryptocurrency. At the same time, the company hopes to get ahead of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group), which previously announced the launch of bitcoin options in the first quarter of 2020. […]

Ethereum cryptocurrency is a commodity, not a security, and soon you can expect the emergence of regulated futures on its basis. The chairman of the Commission on the derivatives trading (CFTC) of the United States, Heath Tarbert, said at a Yahoo Finance summit. “We have very clearly stated that bitcoin is a commodity. But so far they have not said anything about Ethereum. I'm like […]

One of the largest payment systems in China, Alipay, has announced its intention to block any payments related to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The fact that Alipay will become one of the gateways through which users from China will be able to buy bitcoin the day before was announced by the head of the Binance exchange, Changpeng Zhao. However, the company itself refutes this possibility. If any transactions are identified as being […]

OKEx Korea cryptocurrency exchange has suspended the process of withdrawing from the auction two coins with a focus on user privacy. In particular, ZCash and Dash will undergo additional study, reports CoinDesk with reference to the statement of the exchange. At the same time, the decision regarding Monero, Horizen and Super Bitcoin, about which OKEx Korea reported delisting in September, remains in force and […]