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According to local media, last week a French official was arrested on charges of selling state secrets for Bitcoin on a dark web site.
“Ross’s prison sentence turned five years old on October 1st,” Ulbricht’s family wrote in an email to news.bitcoin.com. "On this sad anniversary, we are launching a new project that will reveal many previously unknown details of the Ross Ulbricht case. You can read or listen to the first episode now."
Crowd Machine, a California-based blockchain startup, was the victim of a hack that resulted in the theft of approximately $14 million. Oklahoma police have arrested two men who reportedly stole 1 billion Crowd Machine tokens worth an impressive amount.
The Swell by Ripple event, taking place in San Francisco, will continue today, October 2nd, and will begin at 7 am (UTC). President Bill Clinton is the keynote speaker for the event, scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., immediately following an opening speech from Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.
The fight against money laundering, a new loyalty program and reputation systems: what the speakers at Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Belarus will talk about
Japanese IT giant GMO Internet has announced new software for Zcash cryptocurrency miners. Cryptknocker software allows would-be miners to use Equihash-based crypto-variant algorithms using graphics processing units (GPUs) found on many standard personal computers.
The consolidation range is narrowing. In most cases, the direction of exit from such a consolidation is not subject to classical technical analysis. The probability of a breakthrough is possible in both directions. However, we will try to identify support and resistance levels.
As a result of another hacker attack that occurred in early September, a group of cryptocurrency exchange operators are planning to tighten self-regulatory measures that must be observed when managing client assets.
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