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Ukrainian Police Bust Crypto Call Centers Defrauding Investors Across Europe – Bitcoin News

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Ukrainian investigators have exposed a scheme targeting residents of the country and the European Union with various financial scams, including some related to cryptocurrencies. The criminal organization members contacted their victims through call centers to collect personal financial information. Fake Ukrainian Call Centers Promise Foreigners Excess Profits From Crypto Trading Officers from the Main Investigative Department of Ukraine’s National Police and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have dismantled a criminal group running schemes designed to misappropriate funds from citizens of the country and a number of EU nations. Its…

A wake-up call for Ethereum’s future

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Just when the Ethereum ecosystem reached its final stages in preparing for the much-anticipated upgrade, The Merge, german cloud provider Hetzner, reiterated its stance against allowing mining operations for both proof-of-stake (PoS) and proof-of-work (PoW) applications. Hetzner, a private, centralized cloud provider, stepped in on a discussion around running blockchain nodes, highlighting its terms of services that prohibit customers from using the services for crypto activities. However, the Ethereum community perceived the revelation as a threat to the ecosystem as Hetzner’s cloud services host nearly 16% of the Ethereum nodes,…

Bitcoin hits $25K as bearish voices call BTC price ‘double top’

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Bitcoin (BTC) spiked through $25,000 for the first time in months on Aug. 14, but traders refused to take any chances on a bull run. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Weekend produces brief $25,000 tap for BTC Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView tracked a sudden run-up on BTC/USD, which hit $25,050 on Bitstamp in a $350 hourly candle. The move took the pair to a new personal best since June 13, erasing more of the losses seen that day in what remains a significant BTC price correction.…

Hacks call for better defense mechanisms

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2022 has been a lucrative year for hackers preying on the nascent Web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi) spaces, with more than $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency fleeced in several high-profile hacks to date. Cross-chain protocols have been particularly hard hit, with Axie Infinity’s $650 million Ronin Bridge hack accounting for a significant portion of stolen funds this year. The pillaging continued into the second half of 2022 as cross-chain platform Nomad saw $190 million drained from wallets. The Solana ecosystem was the next target, with hackers gaining access to private…

Call for Creation of Common African Digital Currency, Kenyan Activists Turn to Crypto Funding, Ghana on the Brink – Africa Bitcoin News

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In Bitcoin.com News’ inaugural newsletter featuring the biggest crypto and economic news stories from Africa, the head of an African regional central bank, Herve Ndoba, implores the bank’s board to introduce a common digital currency. At the same time, the regional bank warned that the Central African Republic’s bitcoin law is incompatible with regional laws. Meanwhile, Kenyan activists have said cryptocurrencies can potentially create new ways for young people to earn. The latest Visual Capitalist rankings of countries with the highest default risk in 2022 show Ghana as the first…

US diplomats call on Japan’s crypto exchanges to cut ties to Russia: Report

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Officials representing the United States government have reportedly urged Japan’s licensed cryptocurrency exchanges to stop doing business with Russia, seemingly as part of the country’s economic sanctions. According to a Thursday report from the Financial Times, U.S. diplomats requested several of the 31 crypto exchanges licensed to do business in Japan and certain miners to halt operations in Russia. Japan’s financial watchdog, the Financial Services Agency, or FSA reportedly issued demands to the respective exchanges to sever any remaining ties with Russia. 国務省は、「米国は、G20およびその他の国際パートナーとの関与を継続し、ロシアのウクライナ侵攻に起因する人道的課題、とりわけロシアの侵略戦争が世界の食料およびエネルギー安全保障に及ぼす悪影響に対処していく」とツイートしました。 https://t.co/NIzKSzkte4 — アメリカ大使館 (@usembassytokyo) July 8, 2022…

British investment managers call for the blockchain-traded funds’ approval

The Investment Association, a trade body representing British investment managers, is speeding up the local government and financial regulators to approve blockchain-traded funds with digital tokens substituting traditional shares.  As the Financial Times reported on Thursday, the trade body is pushing the government to establish a new class of funds employing blockchain technology and create a new task force to examine how distributed ledger technology could accelerate the creation of new products and services. The reasons behind such a push, according to the Investment Association, are the possible significant cost…

Morgan Creek Is Trying to Counter FTX’s BlockFi Bailout, Leaked Call Shows

According to Yusko, the FTX credit line proposal had a catch for BlockFi’s existing shareholders: It gave FTX the option to buy BlockFi “at essentially zero price.” If FTX were to exercise said option, it would effectively wipe out all of BlockFi’s existing equity shareholders, including management and employees with stock options, as well as all equity investors in the company’s previous venture rounds. Source