Jonathan Silverman, a former employee of one of the oldest Bitcoin exchanges Kraken, sued her, accusing that the platform’s management did not pay him for the work he had done. This writes Bloomberg. According to the lawsuit, which was filed on April 4, Kraken hired Silverman in April 2017 as the manager of institutional sales and trading operations in […]
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A court in Toronto confiscated bitcoins worth $ 1.4 million from a 30-year-old local resident Matthew Feng, accused of trafficking in arms and drugs. This is reported by the local edition of The Star. After Feng admitted his guilt, the prosecution demanded to withdraw from him 288 BTC, discovered during the investigation in 2015 and estimated at that time at $ 88 […]
The US Trade and Markets Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to hire a legal advisor to develop a comprehensive plan for cryptocurrency-based securities and digital assets [security tokens]. The corresponding statement is posted on the USAJobs portal. The specialist must understand the federal legislation on securities. His task will be to understand how the existing […]
Australian research company nChain, which employs the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright, placed a vacancy for a patent attorney who understands cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. It is assumed that the employee will work in the London office of the organization. He should have knowledge in electronics, physics and mathematics. The duties of the consultant will include the drafting of patent applications in the blockchain sphere and the prosecution of violators in […]
Roskomnadzor demanded that the owners of 10 large VPN services connect to the state information system (FGIS). Otherwise, the agency threatened to block the services. The report mentions: NordVPN, Hide My Ass !, Hola VPN, Openvpn, VyprVPN, ExpressVPN, TorGuard, IPVanish, Kaspersky Secure Connection and VPN Unlimited. It is noteworthy that Openvpn is not a service, but a program for creating VPN networks. The Office noted that according to […]
El grupo de hackers de Corea del Norte, Lazarus, aún se centra en el negocio de la criptomoneda y está aplicando nuevas tácticas, dijo la compañía de antivirus Kaspersky Lab…
Hackers from the Lazarus group, which is associated with the authorities of North Korea, in the near future may attack cryptocurrency exchanges and technological startups with the use of new developments. This is reported by experts of the antivirus company Kaspersky Lab. According to their information, hackers have developed their own scripts for automation tools PowerShell, which disguised as files of popular open source projects, in particular, […]
The Chinese manufacturer of mining equipment Bitmain announced the closure of the Norwegian division, according to ICOshock. As the newspaper notes, the office will be moved to Germany, where, according to representatives of Bitmain, the conditions are more favorable. The Scandinavian office of a Chinese company lasted only a year. According to ex-manager of the Norwegian Bitmain division Julie Hvideberg, the main reason for this decision was the cancellation by the local authorities of special preferential conditions for mining […]
The Tokyo District Court convicted the former CEO of the Mt.Gox bitcoin exchange, Mark Carpeles, of falsifying documents and sentenced him to two years and six months in prison. Nevertheless, Karpeles has a suspended term of four years ahead to prove his reliability and to avoid a real imprisonment. Reported by The Block. Note that the prosecutor's office required 10 years […]
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 […]