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ForkLog 20 24.08.2023

Binance drops ‘Sber’ and ‘Tinkoff’ names amid US DOJ investigation

The cryptocurrency exchange Binance, for clients of its internal P2P platform, replaced the names of Russian banks' cards 'Sber' and 'Tinkoff' with 'green' and 'yellow' respectively.

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ForkLog 24 21.08.2023

OKX Tightens KYC Procedures

The cryptocurrency exchange OKX has required users to undergo enhanced verification with document verification and facial recognition by September 21.

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ForkLog 14 16.08.2023

VTB, QIWI Bank and Alfa-Bank test the digital ruble

The Russian credit and financial institutions conducted the first operations with the digital ruble as part of testing the new asset.

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ForkLog 7 09.08.2023

Illegal miners in Irkutsk Oblast owe more than 350 million rubles

Courts in Irkutsk Oblast are hearing 430 cases of electricity theft tied to cryptocurrency mining, totaling around 350 million rubles.

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ForkLog 12 07.08.2023

Russia’s graphics-card prices fall by about a third over the year as miners exit

From January to June, the average price of graphics cards in Russia fell by 36% year on year due to weaker demand from miners.

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ForkLog 6 03.08.2023

773 Bitcoin miners seized in Dagestan

Dagestan law enforcement seized 773 mining devices illegally connected to power grids.

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ForkLog 9 03.08.2023

Moscow Exchange added to the register of digital financial asset exchange operators

On 3 August the Bank of Russia included PJSC Moscow Exchange in the register of digital financial asset exchange operators.

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ForkLog 13 02.08.2023

MIPT launches first doctoral program in distributed ledger technologies

MIPT opens the first intake in a doctoral program on distributed ledger technologies.

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ForkLog 9 01.08.2023

Russia legally recognises foreign CBDCs

From 1 August, amendments to currency regulation and currency control came into force in Russia, affecting foreign CBDCs.

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ForkLog 8 27.07.2023

Iranian mining company to enter Russian market

The regulated Dara Miner platform from Iran has entered into a strategic partnership with the Russian data-centre operator BitRiver.

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ForkLog 20 27.07.2023

Russia’s cryptocurrency mining energy consumption fell in 2022

In 2022, the volume of energy consumption by cryptocurrency miners in Russia fell by 49% to under 5 billion kWh.

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ForkLog 6 26.07.2023

In Russia, the number of crypto-processing services has doubled.

In the first half of the year in Russia, the number of services accepting payments in cryptocurrencies doubled compared with the same period last year.

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