Durov’s phone hacked in 2017, a year before meeting with Macron: Report

The broadened scope of the Terrorist Funding rules includes crypto transactions to protesters and gives the government the power to freeze bank accounts. 1190 Total views 5 Total shares Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act, which gives him the power to freeze Freedom Convoy protesters’ bank accounts and monitor “large and…

Bitcoin may have solidified a price base due to big player purchases. 599 Total views 12 Total shares BitMEX recently faced major U.S. legal action, and KuCoin suffered a significant hack, all inside a several-day span — but why did these events not affect Bitcoin’s price in a more negative way? Aleks Svetski, CEO of…

Chicago-based crypto exchange ErisX has procured a derivatives clearing organization (DCO) license from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).According to an official blog post on July 1, ErisX is planning to make digital asset futures contracts available for trade on its regulated derivatives market later this year via its new DCO.ErisX also launched…

The free zone for virtual asset firms in the Ras Al Khaimah emirate aims to foster regulated and non-regulated activities. 1230 Total views 18 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTRas Al Khaimah’s recently announced free zone for virtual asset firms will explore accepting crypto payments from companies looking…

This article has been updated to reflect comments from Ran Neuner on his involvement in the project.The man behind the “Blockchain Terminal” (BCT) Initial Coin Offering (ICO) has been ousted as a financial criminal who concealed his former identity from employees and investors alike. An investigation into the circumstances were published Dec. 11 on news…

It will look at the use and oversight of crypto in 401(k) and similar plans, which is controversial in many parts of the government. 171 Total views 11 Total shares Chairman of the United Sates House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Richard Neal sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a legislative…

The online real-time economic strategy game, Prospectors, will be launching on the Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX).Prospectors blockchain game lands on WAXIn a Sept. 17 blog post, WAX announced that one of the largest dApps in the world, The Prospectors, is launching on the WAX blockchain, which users buy physical and virtual items using WAX tokens.This…

Asset manager Hashdex has amended its S-1 regulatory filing for its cryptocurrency index exchange-traded fund (ETF) to include seven altcoins in addition to Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), according to a March 14 filing.  The revision proposes adding seven specific altcoins to the index ETF — Solana (SOL), XRP (XRP), Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK), Avalanche

Unlike other types of electronic money in Iran, the digital rial doesn’t require interbank settlement to transfer funds between the buyer and the seller.