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Pakistan

Pakistani authorities to study Binance's ties to crypto scam for $100M

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The Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is investigating possible links between Binance and a multi-million dollar crypto scam in the region. The FIA's cybercrime division has asked regional manager Hamza Khan to clarify its position on the company's ties to deceitful mobile apps for...

Hackers

Hackers modified dnSpy debugger for hidden crypto mining

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MalwareHunterTeam specialists have uncovered a malicious version of the dnSpy debugger that installs hidden miners and Trojans on victims' computers. dnSpy is commonly used by researchers and developers to adjust and decompile programs. The software is also popular with cybersecurity professionals...

China

Citizens of China download the app for transactions with digital yuan

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In-app stores for devices based on Android and Apple operating systems, the RMB transaction service ranked first in the number of downloads in China. This program is currently still in the testing phase. However, according to the results of the first week, after the application appeared in the...

Bill Miller

Billionaire Bill Miller invested up to 50% of his capital in bitcoin

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Many large financiers are gradually changing their attitude towards bitcoin and are beginning to view it as a tool for hedging inflationary risks. For example, this point of view is shared by Paul Tudor Jones. Back in 2020, he admitted that he invested part of his capital in BTC. Now billionaire...

Bitcoin

The economist allowed Bitcoin to fall below $40K amid high inflation

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Bitcoin could break down $40,000 if inflation further exceeds market expectations. Economist Alex Kruger outlined a similar scenario amid the Fed tightening monetary policy. Sensitivity to macroeconomic news is due to changes in the Fed's monetary policy, Krueger is convinced. He recalled the...

MTI

Mirror Trading International, organizer of BTC pyramid, arrested in Brazil

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The Brazilian military police have arrested the founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency pyramid Mirror Trading International (MTI) Johann Steinberg, who was wanted by Interpol and the FBI in 2019. Law enforcers began spying on the suspect immediately after receiving information about his location in...

Tesla

Experts doubted possibility of making $800 on ETH mining via Tesla

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San Francisco resident Siraj Raval uses his 2018 Tesla Model 3 to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency. According to the crypto enthusiast, he launched free mining software on an Apple Mac mini M1 computer by connecting it to the car's center console. Five graphics cards are powered by a Tesla battery....

Argentina

Argentine government prepares innovations for mining farms

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Thanks to a fairly reasonable price for electricity, Argentina has been and is a very attractive country for companies that are mining bitcoin. But regular media reports suggest that this is about to change as state-owned electricity wholesaler Cammesa is planning to raise its price for mining...

DBC

DhabiCoin is just hours away from making history in the crypto market

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The countdown to the official listing of DhabiCoin (DBC) has started on six exchanges, three of them already at launch. In nine months of the ICO phase, DhabiCoin accomplished a feat never seen before in the crypto-actives market, overcoming the market's distrust and becoming one of the main bets...

Crypto market

Cryptocurrency market capitalization plummets to $1.9 trillion

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The cryptocurrency market is still in a bearish phase, with Bitcoin dropping below $ 42,000. At the time of publication of this review, the leading digital currency was trading at around $ 41,653. BTC capitalization collapsed on January 7 to $ 789.936 billion. Of the top ten altcoins, the largest...

Square Enix

Square Enix president spoke about metaverse plans of the company

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Yosuke Matsuda, President and CEO of the Japanese computer games company Square Enix, wished all users a Happy New Year and spoke about the company's plans for the coming year. Matsuda called 2021 "the year of the metaverse" because the interest in it is extremely high. Large corporations...

Bitcoin

2021 became a record year for the scale of criminal use of BTC

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The number of criminal transactions involving Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies reached record levels in 2021. A study by Chainalysis says that the volume of such transactions amounted to $ 14 billion. Compared to 2020, the use of digital currencies in fraudulent schemes, in the spread of...

Raul Pal

CEO of Real Vision predicts 100x growth of the crypto market by 2030

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According to the CEO of Real Vision Raul Pal, by the end of this decade, the capitalization of the cryptocurrency market may increase 100 times. Now the value of all digital currencies exceeds 2 trillion. At the end of last year, capitalization was growing, however, already in the first days of...

Hong Kong

Hong Kong police arrest another crypto scammers

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The regional government of Hong Kong reported that law enforcement agencies managed to arrest crypto scammers, the search for which lasted about two years. A 28-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man, who are each other's brother and sister, opened accounts in different banks in their names. For a...

Mexico

Mexican president announces digital Peso release

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Mexico joined the list of countries that have already officially announced their intention to develop their digital asset. This information was recently posted on the official account in one of the social networks of the President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In a statement, the...

CFTC

CFTC fined Polymarket DeFi platform $1.4 million

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The US CFTC fined the Polymarket prediction platform $1.4M for servicing OTC binary options trading without proper registration. “Polymarket has offered over 900 different event markets since its beginning by hosting smart contracts on the blockchain to manage them. Polymarket creates, defines,...

Bitcoin gold

Goldman Sachs: BTC will take a significant market share from gold

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In the expert community, many believe that in the future, Bitcoin will be able to bypass gold in terms of capitalization. That will happen thanks to the ongoing institutional adoption of the cryptocurrency. Analysts at investment bank Goldman Sachs adhere to the same point of view. In a study...

Whales

Bitcoin whales activate on Coinbase

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Despite the holidays, the Coinbase crypto exchange has seen high activity of bitcoin whales since the end of December. According to the analytical company Kaiko, the number of transactions with a large volume of BTC has been increasing on the trading floor since last week. As a result of the...

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