Tag: Russia

News Russia’s largest bank, the state-owned Sberbank, has pioneered a blockchain solution for repurchase agreements — also known as repo. According to a Sberbank announcement on Nov. 19, the bank has been awarded a patent for the solution, which uses smart contract technology to automate repo tran..

News $450 million worth of lost cryptocurrency from the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange WEX may have been transferred to a fund belonging to Russian intelligence agency the Federal Security Bureau (FSB), according to an investigation by the BBC’s Russian Service published on Nov. 15. The BBC’s..

News According to one official in attendance, members of international association BRICS discussed the creation of a new cryptocurrency at a recent summit. On Nov. 14, Russian financial news outlet RBC reported that the director-general of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev ..

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Analysis With each passing day, the financial nitty-gritty associated with the cryptocurrency-related OneCoin Ponzi scheme continues to become of increasing interest to members of the global crypto community. The U.S. government’s previous estimate of the scam that raked in a total of $4 billion ..

News Russia is planning on creating legal statutes allowing the government to achieve the impossible: confiscation of Bitcoin (BTC). As local financial news outlet RBC reported on Nov. 7 citing sources familiar with the matter, Russia’s interior ministry will work with various state organs to dra..

News Major global crypto exchange Binance has silently launched Russian ruble trading on Oct. 30. Binance Ruble trading goes live according to the planLess than two weeks after announcing Binance’s plans to launch fiat trading starting with Russian ruble, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) revealed t..

News A Bitcoin mining company owned by Russia’s internet ombudsman is planning to open a new facility and corner 20% of the international market. Internet ombudsman targets BTCAs local financial news outlet RBC reported on Oct. 29, Russian Mining Company (RMC) plans to repurpose a metal factory in..

News A Russian scientist and former employee at the nation’s premier nuclear research facility was jailed on Oct. 24, for his part in a scheme to secretly mine Bitcoin using the facility’s supercomputers. Stealing energy and computing power from your employerAccording to an Oct. 25 report by RT, ..

News Investors in the Telegram Open Network (TON) and $1.7 billion Gram token sale have voted against the return of their funds, Forbes Russia reported on Oct. 23. Two sources close to the Telegram team told reporters that a majority vote — with the inclusion of investors in both rounds of the off..