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Blockchain

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US to give 7 years in prison for first time for 'shady crypto-banking'

A Manhattan district court prosecutor is recommending a seven-year prison sentence for former businessman Reginald Fowleret, who was involved in a shady crypto-banking scheme. The investigation revealed that his activities enabled illegal transactions worth more than $400 million. The companies in question were Global Trading Solutions and Crypto Capital. The

Ukrainian crypto startup Clarnium is in the top 100 projects of Paris Blockchain Week

In March, Paris Blockchain Week event was held in Paris. About 700 startups were presented during the event. Clarnium gameFi-platform, developed in Ukraine, got in the TOP 100 of the most promising projects. The Clarnium team was also invited to present their brainchild at the Startup Night at Web3Go in

"Cryptocurrency is less stable than the marijuana market" - U.S. Senator

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee held another hearing in which Senator Michal Bennett criticized those banks that operate in this area. The politician also openly expressed his dislike for the entire digital asset industry. "Signature collapsed last weekend. One-fifth of its deposits came from cryptocurrency companies. They (banks)

U.S. transferred bitcoins confiscated from Silk Road hacker

The U.S. government transferred about 50,000 BTC (over $1 billion) seized from the Silk Road hacker to the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange and unknown wallets. It was reported by PeckShield. Recall that Silk Road was one of the most successful "black" platforms at the beginning of bitcoin&

Bitcoin NFT market to grow to $4.5 billion by 2025

Galaxy has published a report titled "Bitcoin Inscriptions & Ordinals." In it, the company states that the bitcoin-based NFT market will reach a capitalization of $4.5 billion by 2025. In a "bearish" scenario, the value will be much more modest - $1.5 billion, in

There is one "whale" behind the manipulation of the BTC price: the opinion of a finance professor

Professor John Griffin noticed back in 2017 that the price of bitcoin appeared to be backed by one "whale", and now he is seeing similar "red flags", Business Insider writes. The economics professor at the McComb School of Business at the University of Texas believes something

Moody's to create a scoring system for Stablecoin

Ratings agency Moody's is developing a scoring system for "stable coins". It will be based on an assessment of the quality of collateral reports. The initiative is at an early stage of creation. Analysts intend to calculate scores for 20 Stablecoins. Assigning a rating in the

Binance has integrated payments through Google Pay and Apple Pay

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has added the ability to buy cryptocurrencies through Google Pay and Apple Pay services. Thanks to this, iOS and Android owners will be able to top up their fiat deposits using these tools.

Nexo and Mastercard launch "world's first (companies claim) cryptocurrency-enabled card"

Cryptocurrency lender Nexo said it has teamed up with global payments company Mastercard to launch a cryptocurrency credit card. The card will initially be available in several European countries. The new credit card allows users to spend their digital assets to buy goods. The tokens are provided by Nexo as

Bitcoin could become the reserve currency of a new era

Terraform, which plans to buy $10 billion worth of bitcoins to support TerraUSD, has started it. According to a Terraform spokesman, steibcoin, backed by bitcoin reserves, "will usher in a new monetary era of the bitcoin standard.