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The9 Ltd, a Shanghai company, was the first to invest in the Telegram blockchain project in the course of the closed offer of coins (ICO) held in 2018. This is stated in the statements of the company posted on the website of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The materials indicate that The9 Ltd for $ 2 million acquired 5 297 257 tokens of Telegram Inc., the release of which is expected […]

A working group with the Indian government headed by economic secretary Subhas Chandra Garga recommended that the authorities ban all cryptocurrencies except for digital tokens issued by the central bank. Reported by Reuters. Thus, the penalty for using cryptocurrency involves fines of up to 250 million rupees ($ 3.63 million) or imprisonment of up to 10 years. Also the group filed for […]

Over the past two days, a number of Asian media have announced the release of PayMon gold-backed “cryptocurrency” in Iran. All of them refer to the news agency Mehr News, which on July 13 published a small note that said that the payment instrument would soon be released. It is worth noting that for the first time about PayMon (from the Persian "covenant") it became known […]

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, […]