Russia | ForkLog - Part 101

ForkLog 9 04.09.2020

Dagestani miner suspected of stealing electricity worth 1.3 million rubles

Staff from Rosseti North Caucasus identified electricity theft by a mining farm in Dagestan, the company’s press service said.

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ForkLog 7 03.09.2020

Organizers of a multi-million-ruble Bitcoin-laundering operation arrested in Saint Petersburg

The Saint Petersburg police shut down a cryptocurrency exchange belonging to an organised crime group. They siphoned funds from bank cards and converted them into Bitcoin.

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ForkLog 18 03.09.2020

Russia’s finance ministry proposes banning miners from receiving bitcoins

The Finance Ministry's amendments to the Law On Digital Financial Assets (DFA) ban miners from receiving cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 22 03.09.2020

Urals Officials Obliged to Report Cryptocurrency Holdings

Officials from the Sverdlovsk regional Accounts Chamber, the regional election commission, as well as local civil servants and their wives, will report their holdings in cryptocurrencies and tokens. The corresponding decree was signed by the region's governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev.

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ForkLog 13 03.09.2020

Russian woman duped by scammer selling bitcoins via Telegram

A 38-year-old woman from Abakan lost almost 100,000 rubles while trying to buy bitcoins. The local police site reports this.

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ForkLog 12 02.09.2020

Opinion: Russia’s mediation in payment systems threatens transaction privacy

The public organization "Business Russia" proposed to the government to legally enshrine a rule obliging international payment systems to process Russians' transactions for purchases on foreign sites through Russian gateways. This is reported by Kommersant.

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ForkLog 8 02.09.2020

Bank of Russia rejects launch of the RAKIB mining pool.

The Bank of Russia has deemed the launch of the National Mining Pool, developed by the Association of Developers and Users of Blockchain Technology (RAKIB), impractical. RBC reports, citing association representatives.

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ForkLog 12 01.09.2020

Crypto fraud in Russia worth more than 500,000 rubles exposed

A resident of Karachay-Cherkessia fell victim to a scammer who offered her a chance to earn money from cryptocurrency, reports the Obzor publication.

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ForkLog 16 01.09.2020

Media: Wirecard executive in the Moscow region under control of Russian security services

The chief operating officer of the Wirecard payment-card issuer, which collapsed at the end of June, Jan Marsalek, is reportedly living in a private house near Moscow under the control of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). The German edition Handelsblatt reports this, citing unnamed acquaintances of Marsalek.

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ForkLog 6 28.08.2020

Study: Data leaks caused by employees rise 47% in the first half of 2020

In the first six months of 2020, the number of data leaks from Russian companies caused by employees rose by almost half compared with the same period last year. This is according to a study by KROK, as Kommersant reports.

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ForkLog 13 27.08.2020

Private firms in Tatarstan have invested more than 1 billion rubles in blockchain

Private companies in Tatarstan spent more than 1 billion rubles on blockchain solutions. This was reported by 'Events'.

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ForkLog 14 27.08.2020

Bitcoin extortionists threaten the Saratov region government with an explosion

On Wednesday, 26 August, a letter threatening an explosion was received by the Government of Saratov Oblast. The attackers demanded 1.990364 BTC, according to the local publication 'Fourth Power'.

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