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Thousands of office computers in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as in other US cities, were attacked by hackers who demanded to pay them $ 100,000 in Bitcoins. It is noteworthy that they used for this purpose the EternalBlue program, which was developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA), writes The New York Times. Unknown attackers began to operate on May 7, blocking thousands of office computers […]

Fintech-company Robinhood Markets Inc., which is the mobile application for trading stocks and cryptocurrency Robinhood, may soon close another round of financing, in which its investment valuation will exceed $ 7 billion, reports The Information, citing informed sources. It is noteworthy that Robinhood is allegedly in talks about another round of funding, after which the company's capitalization will reach […]

The judge of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Joel Cohen, satisfied the demand of the lawyers of the Bitfinex exchange and Tether Limited, by allowing them to submit only those documents that the State Office of Public Prosecutor has the right to demand within its jurisdiction. It is May 22, 2019, in particular, the respondents are in another […]

The creator of the Hashcash algorithm and Blockstream's CEO Adam Beck is convinced that behind the pseudonym of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is hiding one person, and not several people, as is sometimes assumed in the community. He said this in an interview with Cryptofinder.tv on the sidelines of this week’s Consensus conference in New York. He reinforced his faith in this by drawing attention to […]