A new financial center, where activities related to cryptocurrency will be conducted, may appear on Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island on the border of Russia and China. This statement was made on Saturday, June 8, the head of the Agency of the Far East for attracting investment and export support (IPA) Leonid Petukhov, reports TASS. “We want to make a big financial center there. Figuratively speaking, cryptocurrency, cryptobirge, exchange […]
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Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart supported the local police, who called the cryptocurrency exchange terminals “the perfect money laundering tool,” suggesting that their installation and operation in this third largest city in Canada be completely banned. However, such a step, as emphasized by a well-known lawyer and supporter of Bitcoin, Christine Duime, will require appropriate legislative solutions at the national level, including […]
The J5 group, established last year by the tax authorities of the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and the Netherlands, is currently investigating 60 major international schemes for cryptocurrency tax evasion. At least 12 of them are led by the Australian Revenue Service (ATO), reports The Sydney Morning Herald. Additionally, the J5 group considers 50 more tax evasion cases, […]
The tough demands of the Russian authorities to provide them with encryption keys from various services provoke an outflow of users to the foreign market. This was stated by the founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov. A vivid example of such pressure on the Russian IT-business entrepreneur called the situation with Yandex. “The Russian authorities are forcing Yandex to give them uncontrolled access to personal user data. It is characteristic that this trend […]
The Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM and the Mail.ru Group signed a memorandum of cooperation for the development of the digital economy in the Russian Federation. The companies entered into a partnership during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). Within the framework of cooperation, the company will be engaged in the development, implementation and joint promotion of digital products in the field of cloud computing and IT infrastructure virtualization, big data management, artificial intelligence and […]
The expiration of the latest Bitcoin futures on the Chicago Stock Exchange (CBOE) will take place on June 19 by 3:00 pm Chicago time, reports Bloomberg. CBOE became the first regulated exchange to launch urgent financial instruments based on the first cryptocurrency on December 11, 2017, when Bitcoin confidently selected its historical maximum near the $ 20,000 mark. Then the CBOE president Chris Concannon said: “We […]
Twitter user CryptHawk, citing a “trusted source”, said that cryptocurrency startup Ripple had acquired MoneyGram money transfer system on Monday, June 3. Seems like it's out! #Rippleven MoneyGram leading to a huge access / deal with Walmart! More to come believe me … – CryptHawk (@TheCryptHawk) June 5, 2019 The companies themselves said they did not […]
The creative director of 2K / DENMARK company, Thomas Silkjer, said that as a result of the hacker attack, GateHub users lost 23 million Ripple XRP tokens (approximately $ 9.6 million at the current rate). According to Silkiera, 80-90 user wallets were cracked in the course that began on June 1, and as a result, 23,200,000 XRPs were sent to 12 addresses. Soon […]
Auction on the blockchain auction platform sold a lot for 8.1 ETH – about $ 1344 at the exchange rate on the auction day. This is a new record for the platform. The auction, which lasted several days, ended on April 25 at the Crypto Games Conference in Minsk. The auction was broadcast live. The record lot is a collection token with a character named Darta-Nyan. It […]
Until the end of July, a draft law may be submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, which will revise the system of penalties for Internet resources that violate Russian law. This was announced by the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov during the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, writes RBC. Zharov believes that blocking websites is an insufficient tool in the fight against violators. "Now the bulk of the laws says that […]