#Russia News

BRICS Business Council Greenlights the Launch of a Single Cryptocurrency Payment System

November 15, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

In a bid to facilitate swift payments between BRICS countries, the BRICS Business Council has proposed the creation of unifying cryptocurrency in a forum in Brazil. The crypto asset will be used as a single payment system for settlements between member countries of the union, according to an RBC report...

Russian Startup Turns Aluminium Plant into Bitcoin Mining Facility

October 30, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin

Russia Mining Company (RMC) has taken over the facility of the now-defunct Nadvoitsy Aluminium Plant in the northern Karelia region, which ceased operations in 2018 due to U.S. sanctions. RMC plans to turn the aluminum plant into a mega Bitcoin mining farm that would control 20 percent of the world’s...

Russian Nuclear Scientist Jailed for Illegally Mining Bitcoin

October 28, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin

Andrey Rybkin, a Russian nuclear scientist working at the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, has been sentenced to three years in prison with a hefty fine of 200k rubles ($3,122) for illegally mining Bitcoin with the agency’s computer systems, according to reports on October 28, 2019. End of...

Putin checking out some bitcoin russia flag

Russia Remains Crypto-Aware but Doesn’t see the need for a National Digital Currency

October 11, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

President of the Russian Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, believes there is no immediate need for Russia to explore launching a sovereign digital currency. Despite having studied and researched these topics, the central bank doesn't believe there are any obvious benefits to the economy, as reported by TASS, October 10, 2019...

Bitcoins chilling on the great wall of china

Capital Flight from China Causing Bitcoin’s Pump: Kyle Bass

August 7, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Bitcoin

Well known fund manager of Hayman Capital Management, Kyle Bass, believes that the current run-up in Bitcoin is has been caused by global trade tension, Yuan devaluation, and capital leaving China. In an interview with Yahoo, Kyle emphasized that while capital is leaving China through gold and Bitcoin, the rising market...

Russian Mining Rig hooked up and investigated

Russian Customs Service Opens Investigation into Illegally Imported ASIC Miners

July 31, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Tech

The Russian Federal Customs Service has initiated a probe into DTPK, an importer of Bitmain miners, for submitting falsified documents to customs officials and evading $1.2 million in duties. The false documents had listed a much lower price for the miners and their power elements relative to their market price,...

Russia May Postpone Implementation of Cryptocurrency Law

July 11, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Regulation

Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market revealed that Russia's digital financial assets law has been practically agreed upon but it may be postponed to autumn because the authorities have been unable to reach a concrete agreement on how bitcoin and altcoins should be handled...

Russia Wont Ban Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency

July 5, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

Ever since the announcement of Libra, it has been the hottest topic of discussion amongst cryptocurrency enthusiasts, banks, tech companies, and regulators. As Europe and the USA struggle to come to terms with Libra, Russia is surprisingly calm on the issue, even confirming that the country doesn't plan to ban...

Russia: No Special Treatment for Facebook’s Libra ‘Crypto’

June 21, 2019 by Anthonia Isichei at News, Regulation

A Russian lawmaker has recently stated that Facebook’s expected cryptocurrency, Libra, would not be given preferential treatment in Russia. Per a report by Tass on June 18, 2019, the country wasn’t planning to adopt a crypto-friendly legislature. Going by Russia’s rough relationship with the social media giant, the recent opposition to the company’s project...

Russian Hackers May Be Responsible for Coincheck Heist

June 20, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Investigators looking into the more than half a billion dollar Coincheck heist of 2018 have revealed that Russian hackers may have been responsible for the attack. Reports indicate that two malicious malware written in Russian, “mokes and “netwire,” have been discovered in the previously hacked Coincheck employee’s computer. This, according...

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8»