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 […]
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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 […]
During a discussion on blockchain at the Open Innovations forum in Skolkovo, representatives of business and other relevant organizations discussed the current state of technology, its significance for society, and also possible ways of its development. So, the president of the Federation of Intellectual Property Sergey Matveev emphasized that the blockchain technology is “absolutely social” and this is its main significance. “Blockchain is not an IT story. […]
FairPlay and ForkLog summarized the draw of $ 2000 in TPLAY tokens. The total prize pool was shared by 10 winners, whom we selected using the ForkLog blockchain randomizer. The first place and the main prize of $ 1000 went to the user with the nickname @rvally. For $ 200 users won: @artemanskiy @mabyl @ vfr35yhn @ Dmitriy544 For $ 40 users won: @Ignatyakovlev @yppss @ TDR4k @AtrurCy Oleg […]
Four Kharkov cyber police officers are suspected of stealing bitcoins after a search. Law enforcers allegedly transferred cryptocurrency from a wallet to a mobile device after it was withdrawn. The court decided to provide access to the data of mobile operators to clarify the circumstances. In January, a search was conducted against a suspect in fraud, during which a mobile phone was seized. Half an hour after the end of the search from the wallet to […]
The head of the Russian payment service Qiwi Sergey Solonin, who is one of the investors of the Telegram Open Network (TON), is ready to wait for the settlement of the Telegram dispute with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He reported this to Izvestia. He does not know about the plans of other investors. According to lawyers interviewed by the publication, most likely share Solonin’s position and are ready to wait […]