Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: People, Culture and Tech
According to a Nov. 11 announcement, Binance is granting most of the $250,000 reward that the exchange offered to pay for information leading to the arrest of the March 7, 2018 attackers. “Sometimes #SAFU takes time,” Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao tweeted. “This took 2 years of effort, with close collaboration with multiple law enforcement agencies globally. But we don't give up.”
In Nov. 5 filing with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the Department of Justice (DoJ) claimed in a court filing that as “Visa learned more about Plaid’s efforts to launch its own pay-by-bank debit service that would directly compete with Visa, its executives grew increasingly alarmed.”
“If the U.S. government's doing things to advantage Chinese technology at the disadvantage to a company like Ripple and others like Ripple, then that's a really frustrating place to be,” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said. “And that's why we have taken the step to look at, should we relocate the company to a country where it is clear?”
A plot to extort money from supermarket chain Tesco by contaminating baby food with broken-up blades of a craft knife and iron filings was fueled by bitcoin and ended with a 14-year jail term.