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ForkLog 11 19.08.2020

Edward Snowden earned $35,000 for talks about Bitcoin

Edward Snowden earned $1.27 million between 2015 and 2020 as a speaker and moderator of various virtual conferences, including $35,000 for cryptocurrency-related talks.

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ForkLog 33 19.08.2020

Riot Blockchain to buy Bitmain miners for $17.7 million

American mining company Riot Blockchain has signed a contract with Bitmain to purchase 8,000 Antminer S19 Pro miners for $17.7 million.

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ForkLog 27 14.08.2020

Bitmain to supply US-listed Marathon Patent Group with ASIC miners for $23 million

American mining company Marathon Patent Group, listed on Nasdaq, signed a long-term contract with Bitmain to purchase 10,500 Antminer S-19 Pro ASIC miners for $23 million.

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ForkLog 19 13.08.2020

US authorities uncover 155 Bitcoin addresses linked to terrorist financing

US Department of Justice seeks to seize bitcoins from 155 addresses allegedly used by al-Qaeda (the group banned in Russia) to fund terrorism. CoinDesk reports.

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ForkLog 39 11.08.2020

Riot Blockchain mined 508 BTC in the first half of the year

Riot Blockchain, the US mining company, said that in the first half of the year it mined 508 BTC (about $5.8 million at the time of writing).

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ForkLog 22 11.08.2020

Two top-10 U.S. banks express interest in Bitcoin custody services

U.S. Bancorp and PNC Financial Services Group, ranking fifth and seventh by assets in the United States, were among the financial institutions that reacted to authorities’ permission for banks to hold cryptographic keys for cryptocurrency wallets.

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ForkLog 12 07.08.2020

Chainalysis notes rise in US institutional Bitcoin investors

From the end of 2019 to May 2020, the share of American professional investors in the cryptocurrency market rose from 87% to 92%, according to a new Chainalysis report.

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Ana Alexandre 1290 24.07.2020

Bitcoin ATMs Operator Faces 30 Years in Prison for Money Laundering

Kais Mohammad, 36, a California resident also known under the moniker Superman29, has confessed to conducting unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange services and laundering up to $25 million. From 2014 to 2019, Mohammad operated an illegal virtual currency business called Herocoin.

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Krzysztof Shpak 810 22.07.2020

Opinion: Trump’s Election Campaign to Trigger Bitcoin Pump

United States President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign will become the driver behind a positive Bitcoin’s price trend. This opinion was recently offered by Charles Edwards, an analyst at digital asset management firm Capriole Investments.

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Krzysztof Shpak 6863 07.04.2020

Safety Over Freedom: How Governments Introduce Surveillance Under Veil of Coronavirus Control

“A big battle has been raging in recent years over our privacy. The coronavirus crisis could be the battle’s tipping point.” That’s a warning from a Financial Times’ article by Yuval Noah Harari, the author of “Sapiens,” about the loss of freedom in a time when many are willing to sacrifice everything for the feeling […]

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Krzysztof Shpak 470 20.01.2020

Global Political Game and Bitcoin Price

In the crypto community and the society at large, there has been a long-running debate pertaining to whether Bitcoin can be defined as a protective asset along with gold, Japanese yen, Swiss franc, and U.S. government bonds. Some experts insist that the unique properties of the first cryptocurrency make it a safe haven for periods […]

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ForkLog 1789 01.08.2019

LedgerX Launches Physically-Settled Bitcoin Futures Ahead of Bakkt and ErisX

This story was updated on August 1, 13:55 UTC The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) stated that LedgerX has “not yet been approved by the Commission” to offer physically settled bitcoin futures. Crypto derivatives provider LedgerX announced it has launched the first physically-settled Bitcoin futures contracts on the U.S. market. The contracts, which […]

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