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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Directive banning accountable organizations from providing banking services to companies involved in the trading of BTC and other cryptos has been repealed by a decision of the country's Supreme Court. Earlier, cryptocurrency exchanges, startups, and other industry...

The largest American cryptocurrency company Coinbase will transfer part of its employees to remote work due to the spread of the coronavirus epidemic. A similar decision was made by the research company Messari. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong shared an updated version of the plan for the spread of...

Bitfinex is planning to perform a large-scale delisting of trading pairs because of low liquidity on March 6. Due to their low liquidity, on Friday, March 6th, we will remove several trading pairs. This measure serves to consolidate and improve liquidity on Bitfinex, leading to a more streamlined...

A scam group based in Kyiv in 2019 lured out about $70 million under the guise of investing in cryptocurrencies and stocks. Its victims were thousands of people from more than 50 countries. It is reported by The Guardian, as well as the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, citing an anonymous...

Applications broadcasting bitcoin and blockchain industry news, including Cointelegraph and Coindesk, began to disappear from the Google Play app store. Representatives of the Cointelegraph emphasized that Google did not contact them in advance before uninstalling the application. The news resource...

IOTA developers have introduced a tool to migrate Trinity wallet user assets to new secure addresses. They plan to resume network operation on March 10. Users of the desktop version of Trinity were attacked on February 12th. Attackers allegedly gained access to seed phrases and withdrew funds from...

Despite the fact that the Bitcoin mining industry is still profitable, its environmental impact cannot be underestimated. So, according to a study by PWC blockchain expert and Digiconomist blog author Alex de Vries, 98% of existing equipment will become useless over time and become huge heaps of...

Ripple is creating a new component designed to provide the ability to create asset-backed tokens on top of the XRP registry. That was told by the technical director of the company David Schwartz. According to him, Ripple seeks to expand the capabilities of the network, including providing third...

The niTROn blockchain conference from the TRON project has been postponed due to the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic. This was reported on the website of the event. The summit was to be held in late February in Seoul. The new date will be determined "depending on the further...

Bitfinex Bitcoin exchange reported that it gave another $100 million to Tether to repay a previously taken credit of $700 million. 📢Bitfinex Repays $100M of Outstanding Loan Facility to Tether. Read more at https://t.co/UkKaNESd70— Bitfinex (@bitfinex) February 28, 2020 It is a question of...

Coinbase began testing the famous face recognition system from the American startup Clearview AI. The Clearview AI system is currently used by more than 2200 organizations. Through artificial intelligence, the system uses a database of images collected on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other...

The U.S. SEC fined Hollywood actor Steven Seagal for concealing a fee from Bitcoiin2Gen's ICO. It is reported by Bloomberg. In February 2018, Seagal became a startup brand ambassador and actively promoted an ICO campaign on social networks. According to the regulator, for this, the startup promised...

The Bitfinex crypto exchange stopped working and announced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) network attack. We are investigating what seems like a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. We will keep everyone updated on here and our status page https://t.co/u3pYCVVGQq as we know...

Kyiv law enforcers completed a pre-trial investigation into the illegal use of official equipment of the judicial administration for the extraction of cryptocurrencies. This was reported by the prosecutor's office in Kyiv. An official holding one of the leading posts in the Informational Judicial...

Tagomi, an American cryptocurrency broker, has joined the Libra Association, the institution responsible for generating the Libra digital currency project from Facebook's largest social network. “We're happy to become a member of Libra and share a common mission to expand financial inclusion. We...

The Tax Administration of New Zealand may refuse to apply tax to cryptocurrencies on goods and services. The document indicates the rapid development of the crypto sector. At the same time, digital assets cannot be unambiguously called an investment product, which makes it difficult to apply the...

Seattle District Court found Microsoft ex-tester Volodymyr Kvashuk guilty of organizing a fraudulent scheme using crypto. This was reported on the website of the US Department of Justice. From August 2016 to June 2018, the 25-year-old citizen of Ukraine, Kvashuk worked in the team of the Universal...

Bitmain has presented specifications for the modern Antminer S19 and S19 Pro. According to the Chinese company, the new devices will provide miners with a steady income even after the upcoming cryptocurrency halving in May. The latest Antminer S19 and S19 Pro are available in 2 versions. So, the...