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Bitcoin’s price (BTC) action has been relatively uneventful, especially when compared against the explosive price action of last week when the digital asset stomped through the $9K barrier and rallied all the way $9,530 for a strong monthly close. Bitcoin daily price chart. Source: Coin360This week all of the attention seems to be oriented towards Tesla,…

French financial regulators have observed an increase in complaints regarding cryptocurrencies this year.Investors in the country are increasingly filing complaints about digital currencies with France’s Financial Markets Authority (AMF) since January 2019, according to the AMF’s 2019 Risk Map report published on July 2.Percentage of claims to AMF regarding crypto assets. Source: AMF     The Risk Map…

Telefonica announced a new tool created by its cybersecurity division to decrypt affected files by VCryptor. 582 Total views 21 Total shares On June 3, Spain-based telecommunications conglomerate, Telefónica, released a free tool to recover data encrypted by the VCryptor ransomware.The tool, VCrypt Decryptor, was created as part of an international initiative titled “No More…

China’s pandemic-hit economy needs all the help it can get after a surge in COVID-19 infections triggered mass lockdowns across the country. In an attempt to revive consumption, the southern city of Shenzhen used Beijing’s central bank digital currency, or CBDC, to airdrop free money to local residents. A similar strategy was used in the…

Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency has reported that 2018 saw a 170% uptick in the number of consumer queries about cryptocurrencies as compared with the previous year. The news was reported by Cointelegraph Japan on June 18.The Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) is an administrative agency of Japan’s Cabinet Office — the office responsible for the day-to-day…

The fundraising round included Polygon, Ripple, Octava, NEO Global Capital, Appworks, Sebastien Borget of The Sandbox, GSR, LD Capital, Metavest Capital and others. 96 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTBlockchain Founders Fund, a venture capital fund supporting the adoption of Web3 and blockchain technology, has…

93% of the central banks are already conducting research on central bank digital currencies, 68% are still not ready to launch their digital money. As  93% of the central banks are already conducting research on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the uncertainty about this form of digital money among them fades. There could be up…

The abnormal amount of illicit transactions is caused by the equally record-breaking scale of international sanctions. 242 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTSetting aside the criminal investigations of failed crypto businesses like FTX, Celsius, 3AC, Terra and others, 2022 set the record in illicit on-chain…

Ledger hardware wallet users might be in danger of physical attacks with their addresses part of the user data dump by suspected hackers. While the affected users are threatening legal action in the Ledger data dump, some wallet owners might be at the risk of being visited by criminals. According to a Redditor named "u/relephants,"…