The administration of US President Donald Trump is considering the possibility of imposing sanctions that will actually force Visa and Mastercard systems, as well as other financial companies, to suspend payment services in Venezuela. It is reported by Bloomberg. According to officials, such a move would put significant pressure on the government of Nicolas Maduro, who is not recognized by the president in Washington. It also means a ban for American […]
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On February 28 in Moscow, the famous trader and author of the cult work “The Black Swan” Nassim Taleb gave a lecture “Risking his own skin” organized by BBI Club. During the event, the guests managed to ask the thinker questions about Bitcoin. “Distributed systems are anti-fragile. All of us [in the USA] must decide what the currency should be, and not just the Fed, whose representatives are not […]
Photographer Anton Klimov, specially for the Forbes magazine, prepared a report on the everyday life of the crypto community in Irkutsk, Russia. The development of mining in Siberia is due to low electricity tariffs and long winters, which save on cooling of cryptocurrency farms. The source of cheap electricity is the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station: the Novo-Irkutsk CHP provides the activity of numerous miners who build their farms in the buildings of empty factories, […]
Armed robbers dressed as policemen broke into a Bitcoin-trader’s home in Drenthe, the Netherlands, and tortured him for an hour in front of his four-year-old daughter. It is reported by De Telegraaf. According to the publication, as a result of torture, the victim received serious injuries. The Dutch police have already formed a group of 15 law enforcement officers whose task is to find and detain the criminals. Note that […]
A 20-year-old college student who used the SIM card swapping method to steal more than $ 5 million in cryptocurrency, pleaded guilty and sentenced by a court in California to a ten-year prison term. This writes the Motherboard. In total, about 40 people have become victims of Joel Ortiz, and as representatives of law enforcement agencies believe, this is the first time in the United States when […]
The speaker of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, demanded that the adoption of bills on the use of digital technologies in the financial sector be accelerated. According to her, the relevant initiatives for almost a year lie in the State Duma "with virtually no movement." This writes Tass. Matvienko instructed Dmitry Mezentsev, head of the upper house economic policy committee, to find out what is holding back the adoption of draft laws, since the legal vacuum in this […]
Los analistas de mercado en Bloomberg creen que la disminución de la volatilidad de bitcoin es un indicador sólido del fin de la caída en el mercado de la criptomoneda…
StellarX, un mercado para la negociación de activos en Stellar, anunció el lanzamiento de un intercambio descentralizado, que ofrecerá a los usuarios cero comisiones y soporte para monedas fiduciarias. StellarX…