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During the meeting of the Iranian Cabinet of Ministers, which was held on Sunday under the chairmanship of President Hassan Rouhani, mining cryptocurrency was recognized as an industrial activity, the local news agency Mehr News reported. According to a government decree, miners will have to...

The founder of the Chinese technology giant Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, said that China should not wait until someone launches a digital currency like Libra. In his opinion, the state is always stronger than any Internet company. This was reported by the local media. "China is able to release its...

Shanghai The9 Ltd invested $2 million in the blockchain project of Pavel Durov during the ICO held in 2018. This is the first publicly known foreign investor of the project. The Chinese company The9 Ltd during the closed ICO (initial coin offering the initial placement of cryptocurrency coins) of...

According to a survey conducted by CivicScience, the overwhelming majority of US residents do not inspire confidence in the upcoming digital currency, Libra. The survey involved 1799 adults in the United States. Only 2% of respondents said they trust the Libra project more than Bitcoin. It also...

The Tron Foundation reported on transferring the lunch of Bittorrent owner Justin Sun and legendary investor Warren Buffett by agreement of the parties. So, the meeting was to be held on July 25, but there were found kidney stones in Sun's organism. The new date is still unknown. However, shortly...

The active introduction of blockchain technologies by financial organizations threatens their security, to the point of complete loss of control over critical resources. This was published in a report by the company Positive Technologies, which specializes in cybersecurity. Half of the pilot...

Last weekend, the cumulative computational power of the Bitcoin network once again updated its historical maximum, reaching 79.752 EH/s. The peak figure, according to Blockchain.com, was on Saturday, July 20th. On Sunday, the last day for which statistics are available, the hashrate fell slightly...

The hearings on the Libra project have already took place in the Financial Services Committee of the US House of Representatives, which is chaired by one of the most active public critics of the project, Congresswoman Maxine Waters. This is the second part of our text reportage from the hearings....

The hearings on the Libra project are already taking place in the Financial Services Committee of the US House of Representatives, which is chaired by one of the most active public critics of the project, Congresswoman Maxine Waters. North Carolina senator Patrick McHenry said that the lack of...

The team of the NovaChain cryptocurrency platform, which offers passive income from trading bots, could escape with the funds of its clients. So, at a certain point, the NovaChain website and social network accounts stopped working. Reported by The Coins Post. A year ago, NovaChain used quite...

On June 28, a court hearing was held in Florida on the sensational case of Kleiman vs Wright, during which nChain senior researcher Craig Wright first appeared under oath. The main purpose of the meeting was to hear the explanations of the self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator regarding why he did not...

In the next few weeks, the Internal Revenue Service of the US is expected to present an updated version of its guidelines, which have a connection to the Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Changes to the document were made under pressure from a group of more than 20 congressmen, who in April...

Binance's research division published a quarterly report, in which it estimated the correlation of digital assets among themselves. Thus, according to it, the correlation between Bitcoin and the rest of the market has significantly decreased in comparison with the figures for the first quarter of...

The self-proclaimed developer of Bitcoin Craig Wright could provide fake documents during the trial of the case against David Kleiman. Lawyer Stephen Palley pointed this out in his Twitter account. lol pic.twitter.com/3nCmzqZHVk— Palley (@stephendpalley) July 3, 2019 So, among the documents...

The deputy head of the Bank of Japan, Masayoshi Amamiya, ruled out the likelihood of issuing national digital currency, Reuters reported. According to the official, the issuance of such a means of payment would mean a waiver of fiat money. “Liquidation of cash will make the payment...

The popular Bitcoin exchange Poloniex announced that it had become the first trading platform that now offers its users the possibility of staking the Cosmos cryptocurrency (ATOM) with daily income payments. Cosmos staking is live! Simply deposit @cosmos $ATOM to Poloniex and begin earning daily...

Ireland-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitsane ceased operations, and its management stole deposits of almost 250 thousand users, reports The Forbes. As the newspaper notes, Bitsane LP in the past was listed as one of the trading platforms approved by Ripple. In addition, in January 2018, CNBC...

On June 26 at 07:00 UTC in the Binance Chain test network took place a planned hard fork at block 24.020.000 in order to activate the Galileo update. Upgrade of the main network will take place in a few weeks. BNB holders are not required to take any action in connection with the hard fork, unless...