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The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) detained terrorists who demanded bitcoin in return for not blowing up buildings in the country’s capital. According to a post on SSU’s Facebook page, two 60-year-old men posted a paper note on an apartment building in Kyiv threatening to blow up that building or another
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Just nine weeks ago, the crypto market fell off the face of a cliff.Within 24 hours, from the peak to trough, the price of Bitcoin fell by more than 50% from ~$7,600 to $3,700. It was a move caused by a global liquidation event in all markets, triggered by a
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Kadan Stadelmann, CTO of the decentralized exchange AtomicDEX, believes it’s only a matter of time before Binance (BNB) implodes.Vitalik’s dream fulfilledAtomicDEX is a decentralized exchange built on top of the Komodo (KMD) multi-chain platform. It claims to be “the industry’s most advanced peer-to-peer mobile-first atomic swap protocol”.Talking to Cointelegraph, Stadelmann
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UBS is trying to save its real-estate fund from huge redemptions. UBS’ troubles indicate that something greater is amiss with the U.S. housing market. Store closures and loss of employment could trigger the next crisis. The U.S. housing market is enjoying terrific price appreciation thanks to a lack of homes available for sale,
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Someone has been sending bomb threats across Russia, demanding $870,000 worth of bitcoin supposedly stolen from the defunct cryptocurrency exchange WEX.For almost a month, anonymous blackmailers have been threatening to blow up courts, schools, shopping malls, transportation hubs and a television station unless someone sends “120 bitcoin stolen from the
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In light of the earlier-than-expected uptick, Conner drafted EIP 2384, the Istanbul/Berlin Difficulty Bomb Delay, included in EIP 2387. In a little over six weeks, block times have increased from 13.1 to 14.3 seconds, Conner said. And, as the difficulty bomb is an exponential feature of ethereum, a one-second change
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