Waves CEO Sells His Stake in Blockchain Spin-Off Vostok
Founder of token issuance platform Waves has fully sold his stake in the firm’s blockchain spin-off Vostok to focus on the Waves Platform. Alexander Ivanov, CEO and founder of Waves, …
FDD Assesses Risks of Crypto Use by Countries Under US Sanctions
The American Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has assembled an assessment of current and future risks of cryptocurrency use by countries adversarial to the United States in a report …
Russian Smelting Giant Nornickel to Launch Digital Trading Platform by End of 2019
Russian mining and smelting giant Nornickel is planning to roll out a digital platform for metals trading by the end of 2019, local news outlet TASS reported on July 9. …
Official: Russia to Postpone Adoption of Bill on Digital Currencies
Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, may defer the adoption of the country’s major crypto bill “On Digital Financial Assets” (DFA) until the autumn session, local news outlet TASS reported on …
Official: Russia Will Not Introduce Separate Regulation for Facebook’s Libra
Russia will not develop a separate regulation for Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra, according to Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev, Interfax reported on July 1 Moiseev stated that Russia will not introduce …
Edward Snowden Used Bitcoin to Pay for Servers Used in NSA Leak
The servers Edward Snowden used to leak thousands of documents to journalists were paid for using bitcoin (BTC), the National Security Agency whistleblower revealed at the Bitcoin 2019 Conference on June 27. …
Russian Central Bank: Criminals Rarely Use Crypto to Withdraw Stolen Funds
In Russia, fraudsters rarely use cryptocurrency to withdraw stolen money, according to the country’s central bank. The news was reported by local news outlet TASS on June 21. The first …
Russian Ministry of Finance Considers Allowing Cryptocurrency Trading
A representative of the Russian Ministry of Finance (MinFin) says the ministry is considering allowing cryptocurrency trading, Russian news service Interfax reported on June 21. Per the report, the Deputy …
19% of World Population Bought Crypto Before 2019: Kaspersky Report
A new survey by Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab introduced on June 17th revealed that 19% of people globally have purchased cryptocurrency. The survey, titled “The Kaspersky Cryptocurrency Report 2019,” …
Russia Will Not Legalize Facebook’s Cryptocurrency, Official Says
Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov has said that Facebook’s forthcoming cryptocurrency Libra will not be legalized in Russia, local news outlet TASS reported …