Key facts: The man kept a percentage of the 2,000 bitcoins he earned from his attacks. 700 bitcoins, equivalent to USD 30 million, were seized from him by the Canadian authorities. Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, a Canadian dubbed a “sophisticated cyberterrorist” was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to participating in a series of ransomware or data hijacking attacks on more than 17 entities in his country. The man was arrested in January last year as part of an operation in which 700 bitcoins were seized (over $30 million at today’s price), in a move that…
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The social network Twitter added the second cryptocurrency with the largest market capitalization, ether (ETH), to its function of offering tips to other users. In this way, it is added to bitcoin (BTC), which was already available since September of last year. The new feature is only available for the mobile version of Twitter. This is a topic that had been rumored since December 2021, when hackers they discovered her in the code of the network, as reported by news portals at the time. As you can see in the screenshot below, the Twitter mobile app already offers the option…
Key facts: The police warrant includes 34 bitcoin and other cryptocurrency wallet addresses. The wallets indicated in the order would contain about 25 BTC equivalent to more than USD 1 million. In a new move by the Canadian government to block funds raised by the “Freedom Convoy 2022” movement, the Federal Police of that country added 34 bitcoin addresses and other cryptocurrencies to a blacklist sent to institutions. regulated finance. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ordered companies registered with the Canadian Financial Intelligence Bureau, stop making transactions with the wallets on the list. This was stated by The Counter…
Key facts: Total venture capital investments in the region reached USD 15.7 billion. Mercado Bitcoin, Bitso and Ripio are among the firms that received the most financing. In the annual report of the Private Investment Association in Latin America (LAVCA), a significant growth of venture capital aimed at companies in the region was evidenced. Total investment nearly quadrupled from 2020 to 2021, while investment in bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain companies increased 10-fold in the same period. Point out the report than the total financing of venture capital projects in the subcontinent went from USD 4,143…
The new update of the Bitcoin node offered by RoninDojo, developed by the Samourai Wallet community, is now available. The launch was made yesterday, February 15, and exposes a series of changes in the system in order to make it easier to use and improve the overall user experience. The upgrade features a new interface and TOR integration for remote and private access from mobile devices or computer. TOR (The Onion Router) is a technology that allows users to hide their identity on the Internet. This feature provided by TOR goes hand in hand with the principle of privacy that…
Key facts: Zonte Capital begins its work with a fund of 5 million dollars. Education, capital and entrepreneurship, the keys for El Salvador according to Keiser. El Salvador has been officially a bitcoiner territory for a few months, but there is still a lot of work to be done for the hyperbitcoinization of the country and the rest of the world. With that in mind, journalists Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert announced the creation of an investment fund focused on companies that develop new advances for the Bitcoin economy. Is about The Zonte Capital, a fund that takes its name…
Key facts: The game developed by Decentral Games is fun and always makes you want to try one more hand. The NFTs required to enter are expensive, but money can be made if luck helps. Leaving home is no longer an essential requirement to enjoy games of chance. Now we can have fun playing cards in the metaverse, and even earning some tokens in the meantime. To live this experience first-hand, CriptoNoticias tried Ice Poker, a Decentral Games proposal in the Decentraland metaverse. Ice Poker is a game launched in October 2021. As CriptoNoticias reported on that occasion, it is…
Key facts: The bitcoin ATM company claims it suffered financial and reputational damage. AlphaPoint is presumed to replace Athena as the Central American country’s technology provider. Athena Bitcoin, the company in charge of developing the Chivo Wallet and manufacturing cryptocurrency ATMs for El Salvador, is suing its former chief technology officer, Sean Overton, for allegedly sabotaging the company’s business relationships with the Nayib Bukele government. Overton, who previously served as president of software development company ROI Developers (now Accruvia), in September last year took over as chief technology officer of Athena when both companies agreed to work together. At the…
One way to demonstrate the enormous profitability of Bitcoin (BTC) mining is by making decisions based on the consumption of renewable energy, leaving fossil fuels aside, which would reinforce the narrative that the activity does not have to harm the environment. environment. so what suggests the CEO of the American mining company Cleanspark, Zach Bradford, one of the companies linked to the production of bitcoin listed on the New York Stock Exchange. For Bradford, who was invited to the weekly “Compass Mining” podcast, while it is true that it is cheaper to use fossil fuels to mine cryptocurrencies than to…