At the November fintech festival held in Singapore, Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund, spoke positively about the idea of creating cryptocurrencies by central banks (CBDCs - Central Bank Digital Currencies). At the event, she highlighted some of the benefits of CBDC, which include financial inclusion, privacy and security.
A Taiwanese miner surnamed Yang was recently arrested and accused by authorities of illegally mining 100 million yuan ($14,500,000) in cryptocurrency. Young used $3.2 million in stolen electricity to power the mining rig.
A recent study published in the Wall Street Journal on December 27 found that hundreds of cryptocurrency projects show signs of fraudulent activity and plagiarism.
The American law firm Silver Miller, which specializes in cryptocurrency investments, filed a lawsuit against investor Jeremy Spence, who, according to its representatives, operated a cryptocurrency pyramid and misled investors.
After the presentation of the world's first electronic auction (SETAM) in September last year, Ukraine is preparing to open a decentralized agricultural exchange based on blockchain technology next year, which will also become the first and so far the only platform of this level.
A report from a group of cryptanalysts from Coinmetrics shows that 2 million Bitcoin Private tokens were secretly issued and transferred to the HTCP shielded pool. The Bitcoin Private team not only increased the number of coins stated in the official whitepaper, but was also able to earn good money.
The price decline has not reached target support levels and may continue after a slight recovery.
On December 27, several people on their social networks reported that the wallet was under attack by a hacker, and he had already managed to steal about 250 bitcoins (approximately $937,000). The attack was subsequently confirmed by Electrum. According to its representatives, the hacker created a fake version of the wallet to obtain passwords from real user wallets.
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