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 […]
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BitMEX, the operator of the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange company HDR Global Trading Limited, announced a grant of $ 60,000 to the Bitcoin Core developer Michael Ford. The funds will help him to carry out a full-fledged work on the project, without being distracted by other questions. Michael Ford (AKA fanquake) is provided on a no-strings-attached […]
The US Senate Banking Committee has demanded Facebook Inc. provide information about a secret cryptocurrency project codenamed Libra. Lawmakers are interested in exactly how the company intends to process the personal data of users of this proposed payment system. Representatives of the committee stressed that last year, Facebook requested data about its users from US banks. They added that many experts believe […]
Christian Catalini, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, went on vacation and now, according to reports from CoinDesk…