USA

The New York State Financial Services Authority (NYDFS) rejected the Bittrex Bitcoin Exchange (Seattle, USA) application for a license to conduct virtual currency activities (BitLicense). The ministry considers the company's policy of legal compliance to be inadequate or completely non-existent, and the competence of the authorized top manager is questioned. Within the framework of the cooperation, NYDFS sent Bittrex several letters in which they outlined the shortcomings, in particular […]

Experts of the antivirus company ESET have detected a massive spam attack targeting visitors to porn sites from Russia, the USA, Germany, France, Spain and the Czech Republic. Fraudsters extort bitcoins from users under the threat of publishing a video that they allegedly managed to record via the victim’s webcam while watching porn. Extortionists threaten to send a compromising record to the list of contacts if they do not receive a ransom in the amount of 0.45 […]

All statements in this article are based on information received from the ForkLog source and are not an editorial position. The editors are open for receiving information from third parties indicated in the material or possessing additional information. The movements of the family of the Russian Alexander Vinnik – the seriously ill wife of Alexandra Shevchenko and two minor sons – are controlled by his own lawyer Timofey Musatov. About […]

The Binance Cryptocurrency Exchange is not yet planning to enter the South Korean market and other countries that have not decided on the legislative regulation of the digital asset market. This was announced by the CEO of Changphen Zhao at a conference in Seoul, Coindesk Korea writes. Zhao stressed that they are ready to cooperate with jurisdictions that have established strict regulatory requirements for the cryptographic market if the authorities of the country are […]

Timofey Musatov, Russian lawyer Alexander Vinnik, suspected of laundering at least $ 4 billion through the BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange, spoke about his client’s story on the Russian radio station Vesti FM. Immediately, we note that the interview was conducted by journalist Vladimir Solovyov. During the conversation, it became clear that he was rather poorly versed not only in the Vinnik case, but also in […]