The Suwalki District Prosecutor’s Office has charged fraud against Martin A., co-founder of the Polish bitcoin exchange BitMarket (.pl), with a prison sentence of up to 10 years, Business Insider Polska reports. The investigation found that Martin A. misled 525 BitMarket customers, depriving them of a total of 2,300 BTC between mid-2015 and July 7, 2019 […]
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Roskomnadzor is preparing a lawsuit to block two privacy-oriented mail services Mailbox.org and Scryptmail.com. The reason was allegedly their refusal to enter the register of information dissemination organizers (ARI) at the request of the FSB. This is reported by RBC. According to the publication, in the second quarter of 2019, Roskomnadzor demanded that the service managers of Heinlein Support GmbH and SCRYPTmail LLC […]
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation will begin to monitor the readiness of banks for cyber attacks. To this end, by the end of 2019, the regulator will assign them risk profiles, said the first deputy director of the information security department of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Artem Sychev, as part of the Bank of Russia – XXI Century forum. The banks will be evaluated by the Central Bank's information security department according to several criteria, including the number of unauthorized operations and willingness to cyber threats. […]
On Monday, September 16th, Coinbase Pro cryptocurrency exchange will add support for Dash. On Monday September 16, our DASH / USD, and DASH / BTC order books will enter transfer-only mode, accepting inbound transfers of DASH in supported regions. Orders cannot be placed or filled. Order books will be in transfer-only mode for a minimum of 12 hours. https://t.co/GsOi6nMMjf – Coinbase […]
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) will increase its monthly limit on open positions to 10,000 BTC or 2,000 contracts. Increased spot-month position limits in CME Bitcoin futures will be available Sept 30, pending reg review. Limits will increase to 2K contracts, equal to 10K bitcoin, to provide customers greater flexibility to trade and hedge bitcoin […]
Dapper Labs, the developer of the game CryptoKitties, raised $ 11.2 million to create the Flow blockchain, Forbes reports. Investors included Andreessen Horowitz, Digital Currency Group and Warner Music Group. They have acquired stakes in the company, but will be able to convert them into Flow native tokens after approval by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Flow blockchain is focused on […]
Huobi cryptocurrency exchange could become a public company in Hong Kong through the reverse takeover of electronics maker Pantronics Holdings Limited. This is evidenced by the application posted on the site. Soon, the company, whose main shareholder is the Huobi Group, may change its name to Huobi Technology Holdings Limited. The deal on the purchase of 221 million ordinary shares last August cost Huobi $ 77 […]
The Ethereum Classic network hosted the Atlantis hard fork aimed at increasing interoperability with Ethereum. So, we have arrived in Atlantis! Looking good so far. Classic Geth, Parity and MultiGeth are in consensus, now 23 blocks after the fork. There is some mining on the old chain, with 2 blocks produced so far. @ InputOutputHK Mantis has dropped off […]
TON Labs, the developer of the infrastructure for the Telegram Open Network ecosystem, has announced the public launch of TON Labs Node Startup Edition, a complete set of development tools for the TON blockchain. This edition of ForkLog said company representatives. According to the developers, the source code of the TON blockchain, published on September 6, is an implementation of the Proof-of-Stake algorithm with sharding from Telegram. TON Labs […]
Alfa-Bank, in partnership with the Russian retailer X5 Retail Group, launched a service for managing payments, credit-deposit products and liquidity based on the Waves Enterprise blockchain solution. This is stated in the press release of the bank. A service called Distributed Treasury and Cash Management (DTCM) is intended for corporate customers of the bank. The application is powered by Waves Enterprise technology. “The key difference between DTCM is that […]