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Analytical firm Elliptic, employees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and IBM corporation used methods to determine the share of criminal transactions related to the Bitcoin network. So, the researchers studied 203,769 transactions, the total cost of which amounted to about $ 6 billion. It turned out that only 2% of these transfers are related to illegal activities. The share of "net transactions" is 21%, and […]

US investment firm US Capital Global announced the launch of a tokenized venture fund, which includes shares in Coinbase, Bakkt, Nomics and Tagomi. According to a press release, accredited investors can invest in the NYCQ Fund with assets of $ 10 million, created by CityBlock Capital. The new fund involves investing in shares in startups, rather than investing in cryptocurrencies directly. "Combining liquidity and […]

On July 13, unknown hackers broke into the server of the Moscow IT company “Sytek” and posted a so-called “job-face” on its website. It is assumed that hackers deleted 7.5 terabytes of data, but before that they partially copied them. Then they shared them with journalists from several publications. Following the results of familiarization with the archives, the Russian service of the BBC concluded that “Sitek” is a non-public contractor for the Russian special services. Mosquito, […]