Posts Tagged: cryptocurrency
Australian Police Suspect Foreigners Paying Criminals to Perpetrate Antisemitic Attacks
Law enforcement in Australia has started an investigation into the origins behind a spree of recent antisemitic crimes, announcing they suspect individuals outside the country...
Celsius Co-Founder: ‘Crypto Is the Main Weapon in the War in Ukraine’
CTech - "One of the most notable phenomena of the war in Ukraine is crypto — Bitcoin has become the main means of financing for...
Taking Stock of Israel’s Blockchain and Crypto Landscape in 2022
CTech - On the face of it, Israel seems like the ideal hotbed for blockchain and cryptocurrency innovation. All of the aspects that led the...
Paypal CEO Dan Schulman: ‘Cryptocurrencies Will Redefine the Financial World’
CTech - “I'm very excited about what crypto and digital ledger technology can do to the financial system going forward,” PayPal CEO Dan Schulman told...
Israel Seizes Cryptocurrency Worth Tens of Thousands of Shekels in Crackdown on Hamas Financing
Israel said on Monday that it greenlighted the seizure of digital cryptocurrency that was allegedly "intended to assist" the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. "We are taking...
Israel’s Fireblocks Acquiring Crypto Payment Platform First Digital for $100 Million
CTech - Fireblocks, which raised $550 million at an $8 billion valuation last month, is acquiring fellow Israeli company First Digital, a stablecoin and digital...
Israeli Crypto Startup Fireblocks Soars With $8 Billion Valuation
CTech - Most people will remember the past two years as being difficult and riddled with previously unseen challenges that touched every aspect of our...
Crypto Giant Coinbase Acquiring Israel’s Unbound Security
CTech - American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has made its first acquisition in Israel, purchasing cryptographic key management and protection startup Unbound Security. Coinbase, which has...
Tackling Crypto’s Complexities With Israeli Technology
CTech - The crypto market is growing, and many equate its innovation and future impact with that of the internet at the end of the...
Israeli Cryptocurrency Security Company Fireblocks Sued for Losing $75 Million Worth of Ethereum
CTech - Cryptocurrency company StakeHound has filed a lawsuit against Israeli company Fireblocks, claiming that it lost NIS 245.5 million (approximately $75 million) worth of...
Iran Seizes 7,000 Cryptocurrency Computer Miners, Largest Haul to Date
Iranian police have seized 7,000 computer miners at an illegal cryptocurrency farm, their largest haul to date of the energy-guzzling machines that have exacerbated power...
Israeli Crypto Startup Simplex Set to Be Acquired for $200-$250 Million by Canada’s Nuvei
CTech - Israeli company Simplex, which provides fiat infrastructure for the cryptocurrency ecosystem, is in advanced negotiations to be acquired by Canadian payment processing giant...
Bitcoin Is Booming and Israel’s Blockchain Infrastructure and Security Startups Hold a Major Key to the Cryptocurrency Revolution
CTech - At least three Israeli blockchain startups have recently announced the completion of major funding rounds: Unbound Tech, Celsius, and Fireblocks. Blockchain payments infrastructure...
Israeli Cybersecurity Giant Tracks Ransom Payments From New Cyber Attack To Iranian Nationals
CTech - Israeli cybersecurity giant Check Point Software Technologies revealed a new type of ransomware, dubbed Pay2Key, that has footprints leading to Iran. The attackers...
