The Federal Customs Service of Russia is investigating a criminal case against the Far Eastern Commercial and Industrial Company (DTPK), which is suspected of evading customs duties in the amount of about $ 1.2 million. According to CoinDesk, from August 2017 to February 2018, the company imported into the Russian Federation 6 012 ASIC miners from Bitmain. The search warrant issued as part of the investigation indicated […]
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Recently, professional participants in the financial market have been showing an increasing interest in cryptocurrencies, which requires Russian legislators to appropriately regulate the industry. However, before it is introduced, it is necessary to carefully study international experience. This was stated by the first deputy chairman of the Committee of the Council of the Federation on constitutional legislation and state-building Lyudmila Bokova during the […]
Founder of the TRON cryptocurrency project Justin San is allegedly hiding from the Chinese authorities since November 2018, when he managed to leave the country. Decrypt writes about this with reference to the news agency Caixin. According to the agency, San found out about the ban on leaving China without the relevant permission of the authorities in June 2018. From that moment on and on […]
The State Duma adopted in the second reading the draft law “On attracting investments using investment platforms” (“On crowdfunding”), which also affects the ICO sphere. According to its provisions, investments by unqualified investors will be limited to 600 thousand rubles a year. Reports about it "Parliamentary newspaper". According to the document, Russian companies and individual entrepreneurs will be able to officially attract money from citizens, individual entrepreneurs and legal entities through […]
In 2018, the information security market in Russia grew by 10%, while the industry’s revenue amounted to 79.5 billion rubles. This year, growth rates will continue, analysts at TAdviser are convinced. Review TAdviser: The volume of the information security market in Russia increased by 10% in 2018 https://t.co/NlnOdT3S63 – TAdviser (@TAdviser) July 19, 2019 The main drivers of the cybersecurity market, […]
Former congressman and US presidential candidate Ron Paul supports the development of the blockchain and cryptocurrencies, as he likes the competition between currencies. He stated this in an interview with CNBC. According to Paul, cryptocurrency is “a great idea,” and the state’s role in regulating them should only be to prevent fraud in this area. "I speak for the minimum […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the distribution of 187 million Props tokens between content creators and YouNow streaming platform users for internal activity in order to influence their degree of involvement. This decision was made by the department in accordance with the established provision "A +", according to TechCrunch. So, tokens will allow people to form a reputation, earn Bars domestic currency for […]
Anchorage, a company providing cryptocurrency custodial services for large investors, has attracted about $ 40 million as part of the B-series financing. Today we are excited to share the $ 40 million Series B led by @blockchaincap and growth of crypto finance. Read more: https://t.co/Jql1VRg0Oo – Anchorage (@Anchorage) July 10, 2019 […]
The Government of the Russian Federation and the state corporation Rostec on Wednesday, July 10, signed an agreement of intent for the development of technologies of the distributed registry in the country. This was reported on the official website of the President of Russia. Agreements with Rostec, as well as with several other large corporations that will be engaged in the development of high-tech areas, were concluded in the framework of Vladimir Putin’s instructions given to them during […]
With the adoption of bills for the development of the digital economy in the Russian Federation, everything is going "not so smooth." This was announced by State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin during parliamentary hearings on this issue. Thus, the deputies have so far adopted only one of the 20 necessary bills for the development of the digital economy. The remaining 19 initiatives have not yet been submitted to the State Duma. “This topic is not […]