The British fintech startup Revolut has entered into an agreement with the payment giant Visa, under which it will begin work in 24 new markets, including in Russia. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the head of the Revolut Nikolai Side. By the end of this year, the service will be available in eight countries, including the Russian Federation, Brazil, Japan and the United States. To the markets of Latin […]
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A synthetic central bank digital currency (sCBDC) based on public-private partnerships is better than a fully functional CBDC, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Tobias Adrian, director of the IMF's currency control and capital market department, and Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, deputy department head, described the benefits of the sCBDC model on a blog. She intends to leave the issue and support of stable digital currencies to private issuers, and […]
The Urals will become the first equipment testing region with the function of deep traffic filtering (DPI) to implement the sovereign runet law. By the end of the year it will begin to be tested in the entire federal district, RBC reports. According to the publication, the equipment has already been installed in Yekaterinburg, now it is being placed in other cities, including Tyumen. “As far as we know, this decision […]
The rapid drop in the price of bitcoin in the past few days is a clear illustration of the concerns of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This was written on Twitter by American lawyer Jake Cherwinski, specializing in cryptocurrencies. – bitcoin drops 20% over a few days – there's no simple explanation for why – the drop made big money for offshore […]
The number of active Lightning nodes in the bitcoin network has exceeded 10,000. 828.7 BTC are transmitted through payment channels. While #Bitcoin is currently under 10000 USD, the #LightningNetwork just hit the 10000 NODE benchmark. Which one is more important for the long-term future of the first global, censorship-resistant currency? pic.twitter.com/LIP3Mtqw1Z – Fulmo ⚡ (@fulmolightning) September 26, 2019 When […]
In the Nizhny Novgorod Region, a criminal investigation has been completed against employees of the Sarov Nuclear Center, who used a supercomputer to mine cryptocurrency. The case has been submitted to court, reports RT with reference to the press service of the Sarov City Court. Scientists detained by the FSB at the beginning of last year are accused of unlawful access to computer information, the creation and use of malware, as well as violation […]
RoboForex lead analyst Dmitry Gurkovsky talks about further possible scenarios of the price movement of bitcoin and several popular altcoins. The market continued to move in the framework of the negative scenario and at the moment the best that can happen is a correction before the next wave of decline. For Bitcoin, the lower boundary of the Triangle model will act as a strong area of resistance – until it is broken, […]
Russia topped the ranking of countries with the highest number of malicious programs for the Android platform. This is evidenced by research data from the international antivirus company ESET. One of the most pressing threats to Android devices in the first half of 2019 was banking malware. According to ESET experts, the number of spyware and Trojans for stealing financial data is growing every year. […]
Roskomnadzor has begun to install equipment with a deep traffic filtering (DPI) on the networks of major cellular operators to implement the so-called Runet isolation law. Testing of the equipment will begin in late September and end in mid-October, head of the rocket launcher, Alexander Zharov, told TASS. He also added that the test will be conducted "in one of the regions of the Russian Federation." Earlier […]
Russian mobile operators will recognize users by face and voice. The solution is expected to work on the basis of the Unified Biometric System (EBS) from Rostelecom, Izvestia reports citing the company. Initially, the EBS was aimed at remote identification and remote servicing of banking clients. The system being developed for mobile operators is designed to accelerate the implementation of virtual SIM cards (eSIM). She will allow to conclude an agreement with […]