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The US Marshals Service (USMS) is considering the feasibility of establishing the position of an agent who will be entrusted with managing confiscated bitcoins and other cryptocurrency. Cointelegraph writes about this with reference to public documents published last week. The documents are part of the Request for Information on the procedural rules for the management and sale of seized cryptoactive assets. A key element of the Confiscation Program […]

74.48% of the bitcoin network hashrate is controlled by six mining pools, half of which are “directly or indirectly” controlled by the Chinese company Bitmain. This is stated in the new report of the ChainDD portal. In particular, BTC.com accounts for 21.35% of the network hashrate, 13.97% for Antpool and 10.51% for ViaBTC, which Bitmain once invested in. Thus, even a decrease […]