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One of the alleged organizers of the notorious OneCoin financial pyramid, Konstantin Ignatov, was arrested on March 6 at Los Angeles International Airport on charges brought against him by the prosecutor's office of the Southern District of New York (SDNY). This is stated in the press release of the department. In addition to Konstantin Ignatov, allegations of fraud using electronic means of communication, securities fraud and money laundering […]

The vacancy section of the social network Facebook now has 20 open positions for specialists, one way or another connected with the blockchain technology, CoinDesk reports. In particular, offers are the vacancies of the technology communications director, threat researcher, data processing and analysis specialist, two product managers and product designer, brand strategy and marketing managers, community manager, […]

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 […]

The founder of the TRON Foundation, Justin San, in a commentary on the post of the head of the Binance exchange, Changpen, Zhao, called the rapidly growing BNB token "new Bitcoin." Huge Congrats on $ BNB, a new # Bitcoin❤ – Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) 5 March, 2019 r. The saying of Sana was not liked by all users of the popular social network. BNB will never be BTC !!!! – lalit [BTC] [NEO] (@Lalitkatel) […]

Analysts of the Canadian company Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets are confident that the price of the first cryptocurrency has already groped the bottom, while the $ 20,000 mark will again be reached in two years. Reports about it Market Watch. The researchers compared the BTC / USD charts for 2011-2015 and 2015-2019 and noted the striking similarity between the patterns followed by the bitcoin price during these periods. “Looking at […]

The software developer for the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency network Dash, the Dash Core Group, was forced to make some difficult financial decisions. So, on March 7, the company will leave 8% of the state, including the strategic director and director of business development. Reported by The Block. Note that the remaining employees of the Dash Core Group voluntarily refused wages and bonuses to […]

Parity Technologies, the developer of the popular Parity client, reiterated the possibility of restoring access to frozen funds totaling $ 62 million. According to CEO Jutta Steiner, Constantinople's CREATE2 hard drive option creates all the necessary conditions for another upgrade. “If CREATE2 existed then, there would be no vulnerability at all. Isn't it correct […]

Twitter CEO and payment startup Square Jack Dorsey acquired the Lightning node from Bitcoin-based company Casa. Soon after the purchase, Dorsey took a photo of the unpacking. Post scored a lot of positive comments. Got one of these to play with. Thanks @CasaHODL @jeremyrwelch! pic.twitter.com/XnGqucrQNH – jack (@jack) 1 March pond 2019. After that, the head of Twitter shared with subscribers screenshots of the node installation process: pic.twitter.com/5h1GMF5Z4i […]