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 […]
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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 […]
Blockstream c-Lightning client developer Rusty Russell suggested raising the default transaction fees on the Lightning Network from 1 satoshi to 5 satoshi, as well as charging an additional 0,0005% of the payment instead of 0.000001%. Russell’s proposal was supported by ACINQ CEO Pierre-Marie Padua and Jack Mollers, founder of Zap Solutions. However, other developers believe that a single proposal from the three largest […]
Digital security can jeopardize privacy. This was stated by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the Open Innovations forum in Moscow. The head of government noted that the Internet "creates tremendous opportunities for the development of the individual and for entire states." However, open data carries many threats. “The concept of digital security includes many aspects. First of all, this provision […]