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A recent case revealed confusion in the Saint Petersburg district court when the court refused to force extortioners to return stolen cryptocurrency from a victim. The event was carried out by one Eugeny Prigozhin and his partner Petr Piron. The two men, pretending to be officers of the Federal Security Service (FSB), extorted both cash […]

Binance Labs is the research arm of the largest crypto exchange in the world, Binance. The research department focuses on finding new ways to improve crypto-related services for the masses. In an effort to do so, they have also participated in the development of HOPR, an alternative to TOR. TOR has been the go-to tool […]

Every time the bitcoin went through a halving event, it made it much more difficult for the miners to collect bitcoin for the same amount of effort. The recent halving event has led to a huge rise in the bar for what is required from miners to generate new bitcoins.  A lot of them actually […]

Sorare is a very well-known fantasy soccer company that also happens to support blockchain technology. The company announced on Thursday that it had conducted a seed funding round that had led to the firm accumulating $4 million. The funding round was primarily led by e.ventures. The announcement made by the firm via email said that […]

The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on the world’s economies right now. Every government is scrambling all possible resources to deal with the ever-increasing number of cases in their countries. All the financial decisions tied to providing relief to the people means economies are suffering badly. However, amid all that confusion, one particular currency is […]

Bisq is a decentralized exchange (DEX) that provides its users with the ability to trade cryptos anonymously. Things took a wild turn on Tuesday night when the service halted its trading suddenly after finding a major vulnerability in its systems. So far, there is no information available regarding the nature of the attack or the […]

The first quarter of 2020 brought us unprecedented events that combined market crash and coronavirus. With pandemic starting in China in February and quickly spreading out throughout the world, forcing global lock-down across Europe, US and Asia combined with the market crash that started with a massive drop of the oil price and major markets […]

We are all very much aware of how the coronavirus is spreading around the world. The pandemic is resulting in a lot of economic changes as well and one of them is the governments around the world launching huge relief packages. With the US government alone releasing a $2 TRILLION budget to deal with the […]

Crypto has always been present in Hawaii and there was a lot of business happening there. However back in 2017, the Division of Financial Institutions (DFI) implemented a regulation that required crypto companies to hold the same amount of actual cash reserves with them as the digital currency that their customers held. While regulation is […]