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ForkLog 6 05.05.2021

Russia’s hard-drive sales double amid the Chia craze.

In late April, analysts recorded a sharp spike in demand for HDDs and SSDs in Russian online stores.

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ForkLog 16 04.05.2021

Russia weighs possible disconnection from SWIFT

An interagency working group is studying the consequences of Russia's possible disconnection from the international SWIFT payment system. This was stated by the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova.

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ForkLog 9 03.05.2021

Russian loses 1.5 million rubles to cryptocurrency scam

A 31-year-old Stavropol resident handed over 1.5 million rubles to a cryptocurrency scammer.

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ForkLog 27 03.05.2021

Munger, Buffett associate, says he hates Bitcoin

The vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway's board, Charlie Munger, said he hates Bitcoin's success. At the company's annual meeting he also called the first cryptocurrency 'a financial asset invented out of thin air'.

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ForkLog 13 29.04.2021

Russian woman loses 1.1 million rubles to ‘cryptocurrency trading’ scam

A 49-year-old woman from the Kursk region lost more than a million rubles on a fraudulent site that purportedly traded in cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 17 28.04.2021

Russian Defence Ministry to create a directorate for AI development

The Russian Defence Ministry will create a directorate for AI development. This was stated by members of the Military-Industrial Commission during a visit to the Sukhoi design bureau.

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ForkLog 7 28.04.2021

Police recover leased Bitcoin miners worth 800,000 rubles

Police helped a resident of Usolye-Sibirskoye recover the leased expensive mining equipment. According to the press service of the local police.

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ForkLog 12 27.04.2021

FSB links SolarWinds attack to dark-web leak

The cyberattack on U.S. government systems via compromised SolarWinds software became possible due to neglecting vulnerabilities, according to the FSB's IT structure.

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ForkLog 10 27.04.2021

Former Neklis Bank executives arrested

The Moscow Tverskoy District Court arrested the former chairman of the board of the now-bankrupt Neklis Bank, Sergey Boriskin, and his deputy Natalia Akulova.

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ForkLog 7 27.04.2021

Udmurtia students sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for theft of 114 ASIC miners

A court in Tatarstan sentenced two residents of Udmurtia, accused of robbing a cryptocurrency mining farm, to four and a half years in a strict-regime penal colony.

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ForkLog 9 26.04.2021

Russian man loses half a million rubles buying GPUs for mining

A 29-year-old resident of Saratov fell victim to scammers who posted an advertisement for selling GPUs for cryptocurrency mining.

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ForkLog 9 26.04.2021

In Moscow, a father accused his son of embezzling 100 million rubles in cryptocurrency

A 45-year-old Moscow resident reported to the police after not receiving more than 100 million rubles from the family cryptocurrency mining operation.

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