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ForkLog 18 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 12 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 16 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 6 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 6 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 8 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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ForkLog 13 26.04.2021

Scammers in Russia sold around 1 billion rubles’ worth of counterfeit notes for cryptocurrency

The Kstovo City Court in the Nizhny Novgorod region began examining the criminal case of an interregional criminal group that, over two years, managed to print and sell about 1 billion counterfeit rubles.

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ForkLog 24 24.04.2021

Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin Is a Ponzi Scheme

The philosopher and author of the cult work The Black Swan Nassim Taleb in an interview with CNBC again criticized the first cryptocurrency. According to him, Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme.

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ForkLog 14 22.04.2021

Poll: 46% of Russians expect partial use of digital currencies within a decade

Most residents of the Russian Federation do not believe that digital currencies will completely replace traditional payment methods, such as cash or card payments, within ten years, though they expect their partial adoption. This is indicated by ForkLog's survey results conducted for Otkritie Bank.

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