Why Argentina is embracing cryptocurrency
The nation that has seen economic trauma is open to the possibility of alternative money like Bitcoin......»»
Coinbase, Binance resist calls to kick Russians off crypto platforms
Two of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase Global Inc and Binance, rejected calls on Friday for a blanket ban on all Russian users to stop their platforms from being used as a way round Western sanctions......»»
US Lawmakers Push Treasury To Ensure Russia Cannot Use Cryptocurrency To Avoid Sanctions
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Senator Elizabeth Warren and three other Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday urged the Treasury Department to ensure the cryptocurrency industry is complying with sanctions imposed on Russia, expressing.....»»
Ukraine Says It Will Reward People With Crypto Airdrop After Receiving $33 Million in Donations
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been marked both by brutality and stunningly modern turns -- from threats to crash the International Space Station and chaotic cyber vigilantism to the ambiguous role that cryptocurrency is playing on both sides of.....»»
Wartime investing: Why gold is outperforming Bitcoin and stocks
How to get into safe-haven investments through your cryptocurrency portfolio.....»»
Crypto Exchanges Consider Ukraine"s Call To Freeze Russians" Bitcoin
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CoinTelegraph: As the West continues to impose more sanctions against Russian banks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, one Ukrainian official has called for sanctions on Russians' cryptocurrency holdings.....»»
Gabe Newell says that 50% of Bitcoin transactions were fraudulent when Steam accepted the crypto
In an interview with PC Gamer, Newell made it clear he wasn’t the biggest fan of integrating cryptocurrency into Steam. "The problem is that a lot of the actors who are in that space are not people you want interacting with your customers," Newell.....»»
Seismic study reveals key reason why Patagonia is rising as glaciers melt
The icefields that stretch for hundreds of miles atop the Andes mountain range in Chile and Argentina are melting at some of the fastest rates on the planet. The ground that was beneath this ice is also shifting and rising as these glaciers disappear.....»»
BitConnect Founder Indicted Over $2.4 Billion Cryptocurrency Ponzi Scheme
From the Hindustan Times: BitConnect founder Satish Kumbhani was indicted by a U.S. grand jury on charges he orchestrated a global Ponzi scheme that raised $2.4 billion from investors in a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment platform, according to a.....»»
UK Intelligence Agencies Are Investigating Cryptocurrency Transactions
MattSparkes writes: Bitstamp, Europe's largest cryptocurrency exchange, says it has handed over information on some of its customers to the UK's intelligence agencies, MI5 and MI6. The news suggests that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are being u.....»»
Utility Promising To Restore Mining Performance on Nvidia GPUs Actually Malware
Web3 is Going Great reports: The popular Tom's Hardware and PC Gamer websites both ran articles about a utility called "Nvidia RTX LHR v2 Unlocker", which claimed to increase the artificially-limited cryptocurrency mining performance of its RTX graph.....»»
Russia May Use Cryptocurrencies To Evade US Sanctions
"The availability of non-bank financial trading in cryptocurrency may allow Russia to avoid the worst of the sanctions coming after their invasion of Ukraine this week," writes Slashdot reader 14erCleaner, sharing a non-paywalled link to the New York.....»»
1Password update will stop you becoming a crypto disaster story
1Password wants to help users keep their cryptocurrency as secure as possible......»»
This new mining tool could spell bad news for the GPU market
A new cryptocurrency-based tool has appeared to completely remove mining hash rate limits placed on certain Nvidia GeForce RTX video cards......»»
Why diversified Bundles are the smart way to invest in crypto
Investment Bundles from Revix offer some cover because it's still early in the cryptocurrency game......»»
Cryptocurrency in 2022: looking ahead
Is crypto adoption really outpacing the internet? Which sectors are worth watching? Here's what you need to looking out for......»»
New armless abelisaur dinosaur species discovered in Argentina
A new dinosaur which formed part of an array of 'unusual' creatures has been discovered in Argentina......»»
Confirmed: Curia of Pompey, where Julius Caesar was killed, was built in three phases
Chemical and petrographic analysis bolsters earlier stratigraphic findings. Enlarge / The Largo di Torre Argentina in Rome contains the Curia of Pompey. This place is falling apart. New study concludes it was built in 3 phases. (credit.....»»
A Crucial Clue in the $4.5 Billion Bitcoin Heist: A $500 Walmart Gift Card
Federal investigators spent years hunting for clues in the 2016 hacking of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange, when thieves stole bitcoin now worth $4.5 billion. In the end, what helped lead them to two suspects was something much more quotidian: a.....»»
Bipartisan Senate Proposal Raises Alarm Over El Salvador"s Bitcoin Adoption
Senators Jim Risch, Bob Menendez, and Bill Cassidy's Accountability for Cryptocurrency in El Salvador (ACES) Act would require a State Department report on mitigating risks to the U.S. financial system from El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin as legal.....»»
Cryptocurrency is Akin To a "Ponzi Scheme", Warns India"s Central Bank
A top official of India's central bank has compared cryptocurrency to a "Ponzi scheme" and suggested an outright ban in its sharpest criticism just weeks after the government proposed taxation of the virtual digital asset and paved way to recognize i.....»»