Bitfinex Cryptocurrency Exchange announced the suspension of trading and the beginning of unplanned technical work. It happened at 12:17 UTC. We are undergoing unscheduled maintenance with trading temporarily halted. All wallets remain unaffected and they are available. Thank you for your patience. – Bitfinex (@bitfinex) July 11 […]
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The founders of Winklevoss Capital and the Gemini Bitcoin Exchange, the Winklevoss brothers, are considering joining the Libra Association consortium. They stated this in a conversation with CoinDesk. “We are definitely looking at this [Facebook initiative] with all seriousness, and we are delighted with the project,” said Cameron Winklevoss. The brothers are confident that the launch of digital tokens by other large companies is only […]
The Government of the Russian Federation and the state corporation Rostec on Wednesday, July 10, signed an agreement of intent for the development of technologies of the distributed registry in the country. This was reported on the official website of the President of Russia. Agreements with Rostec, as well as with several other large corporations that will be engaged in the development of high-tech areas, were concluded in the framework of Vladimir Putin’s instructions given to them during […]
A new network of futuristic capsule hotels Monotel plans to launch in Ukraine by the end of the summer, while cryptocurrency is also indicated among the methods of payment for services. According to Monotel, the project is being created in the image of already working high-tech Asian capsule hotels. There will be an online check-in, digitally controlled capsules, and you can order any services without the need to communicate with the staff. […]
TRON Foundation and BitTorrent service introduced BitTorrent Speed software, which will optimize downloads of torrent files. Today is a huge day for all of us. #BitTorrentSpeed will be the torrent of people to adopt the #cryptocurrency and #blockchain! $ BTT #BTT https://t.co/A3PCIIAfeO – BitTorrent Inc. (@BitTorrent) July 8, 2019 New software, among other things, supports […]
The bill on digital financial assets will most likely not be passed by the end of July, as previously expected. This was stated by the head of the State Duma Committee on Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov, reports TASS. Apparently, the main reason for the transfer of the adoption of the law is the lack of a unified position of the authorities regarding the regulation of cryptocurrencies. “It is necessary to prescribe in legislation what a cryptocurrency is. Then comes the fork: […]
Former head of the Chinese company Bitmain Cihan Wu, together with some ex-employees of the mining giant, has launched a new platform for over-the-counter trading, lending and storage of digital assets. It is reported by Bloomberg. So, according to the CEO of the site called Matrixport Ge Yueshena, she began her work this Monday, July 8. He also reported that the idea of her […]
Today, July 8, a number of media reported that Beijing police are conducting searches in the local office of the blockchain project TRON. Probably the Twitter tweet by Hayden Otto, Twitter, was the primary source. He also pointed to a large transfer of TRX tokens in the amount of $ 23.58 million, which recorded the account of the Whale Alert. Police raids at #Tron offices in Beijing? Additionally, there are many angry people […]
Russian banks got acquainted with the statistics of financial fraud for 2018 and received recommendations for protection against cyber threats. The corresponding report was published by the Center of monitoring and response to computer attacks of the Bank of Russia FinCERT. According to the study, 177 of the 687 hacker attacks on banks recorded in 2018 were aimed at gaining financial gain. About one third are also aimed at embezzling funds […]
With the liquidation of Cryptopia, Grant Thornton has announced the beginning of a process to assess the losses of clients of a hacked stock exchange. The site Grant Thornton says that the company managed to get a database with information about customer assets from a data center in the US Phoenix. Now she is in the process of comparing this data with the funds remaining under control of Cryptopia. “This is not an easy task, hundreds and thousands […]