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On the territory of the Boryspil-Airport checkpoint, employees of the Department for Customs Offenses detained a large batch of specialized mining equipment, which has a total value of more than 13 million hryvnia.
Commissioners from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will report on cryptocurrencies at a Senate meeting on Tuesday.
The media are actively discussing what impression the recent upgrade of the Facebook news feed will have on users and companies whose business is built on its platform. According to Facebook executives, the changes were introduced in response to growing criticism and a survey conducted last year to prevent abuse of the platform.
Samsung, which owns one of the world's largest semiconductor factories, completed the development of ASIC chips last year and has already begun mass production.
Co-founder of DataTrek Research, Nick Colas, has come up with a way to determine when is the best time to invest in bitcoin. His theory lies in a certain dependence of the price of bitcoin on the frequency of search queries for the word “bitcoin” and the increase in the number of wallets.
On January 16, the New York Times published an article entitled “Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble.” The essence of the article can be summed up in one sentence: “Bitcoin may end up being a hindrance to the development of blockchain technology.”
Finance Minister Kim Doong-yong said the government has no plans to close exchanges, refuting controversial comments from government officials in South Korea, the flagship cryptocurrency market, and reassuring investors.
The Ripple token (XRP) was not particularly well received by cryptocurrency users. Despite this, a large number of reputable investors see serious prospects in it. According to globalcoinreport. com, one of the first investors of the Coinbase exchange, Greg Kidd, is going to invest substantial capital in UpHold, which is its direct competitor.
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