Bittrex, the American Bitcoin exchange, has extended the withdrawal period for clients from New York State upon the request of the regulator. Important information for New York customers: NYDFS has requested that Bittrex postpone the New York account closure deadline until further notice. New York residents will be able to continue to withdraw funds, but may not deposit or trade. Details: https://t.co/iJXXDPNF8S […]
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Colleen Myers from the Brooklyn startup ConsenSys claims that after the launch of Ethereum 2.0, validators will be able to expect 4.6% -10.3% annual remuneration for staking, CoinDesk reports. According to him, for the validation of blocks, network participants must have at least 32 ETH (about $ 5200 at the current rate). He also develops an application to calculate the gross and net annual income of validators, taking into account […]
Moscow law enforcement authorities began checking on the appeal of a resident of the capital who lost access to their 15 Antminer S9 devices worth 3 million rubles. According to the news agency "Moscow", the victim signed an agreement with one of the companies on the storage of miners. He paid monthly expenses for electricity in the amount of about 60 thousand rubles, and the company transferred cryptocurrency. However, in […]
The volume of transactions on the popular p2p platform LocalBitcoins fell by more than 30% after tightening KYC / AML measures. Last week, the trading volume of bitcoin on the platform amounted to $ 38.49 million, the lowest value since September 2018. If we calculate the turnover of the platform in cryptocurrency, then the decline may seem even more significant. So, last week the trading volume amounted to 4595 BTC, which […]
An employee of the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics Andrei Rybkin, accused of mining cryptocurrency at the workplace, was sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison and a fine of about 200 thousand rubles. According to Interfax with reference to the press service of the Sarov Court, Rybkin was charged with three articles at once: unlawful access to computer information using his official position, violation of its rules […]
The head of Galaxy Digital cryptocurrency bank Mike Novogratz shared a short-term forecast for the price of bitcoin and spoke about plans to launch a new cryptocurrency fund, Bloomberg reports. According to him, after yesterday's fall of more than $ 600, the price of the first cryptocurrency may drop by another 13%, having found support at around $ 6500. Then BTC will take some time to recover to […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is increasingly seeing "flagrant violations" of law by cryptocurrency market participants. This was stated by head of the department Jay Clayton, reports Bloomberg Law. Speaking at a financial technology conference in Washington, Clayton said that the crypto community has made tangible progress in understanding how securities laws can be applied to digital […]
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) has created a digital asset working group. She intends to assign cryptocurrencies and tokens with an international securities identification code (ISIN), according to a press release. “The emergence of digital assets as a new investment class has made it important to have high-quality standardized data as the basis of the token market,” ANNA said. In particular, the working group will focus on defining […]
The data of Sberbank clients again turned out to be in open access. This time, the database contains not only personal information, but also recordings of conversations. According to Kommersant, a database is being sold on the black market, containing about a million lines with almost complete information about Sberbank's customers – passport data, registration, phone number and others. In addition, the database contains records […]
The development team focused on increased privacy of Horizen cryptocurrency users this week announced the launch of a sidechain in alpha mode, which allows developers and companies to quickly and inexpensively create their own blockchains. The project’s blog says that the Horizen sidechain is the first important milestone on the way to creating an environment with numerous applications, which will make it possible to realize all the advantages […]