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After spending 30 months in detention, Greek authorities have finally extradited the Russian national and alleged Bitcoin (BTC) money launderer Alexander Vinnik to France. Prosecutors in France are charging Vinnik, operator of the defunct BTC-e crypto exchange, with multiple counts of money laundering, extortion and conspiracy.Vinnik also has pending
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This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Bob Summerwill is Executive Director of the Ethereum Classic Cooperative, a volunteer for the Ethereum Project and Community Ambassador for CryptoChicks.2016 and 2017 were
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In an era of scams and fake news, so-called “deepfakes” are the latest assault on our relationship with reality.If you’re unfamiliar, deepfakes are videos generated with help from artificial intelligence that show a recognizable figure (like Barack Obama or Mark Zuckerberg, for example) saying things that they’ve never actually
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IBM has filed for a patent of a system that uses blockchain technology to prevent drone-enabled package theft.According to a filing published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Nov. 12, IBM will track drone altitude using an Internet of Things (IoT) altimeter, while continuously uploading
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OneCoin is supposedly a digital currency estimated to have raised over £4 billion globally in the form of investments, but US prosecutors claim that the cryptocurrency is a front for a pyramid scheme, designed just to extract money from its investors. The founder, Ruja Ignatova, has vanished after being charged
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