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Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights has questioned the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to assist extradite, Alexander Vinnik, the former operator of now-defunct crypto exchange BTC-e, from Greece to Russia. Further, the news was issued by Russian news outlet TASS on March 5, Tuesday. During the meeting amidst Commissioners Michelle Bachelet and Tatyana Moskalkova on March 5, Tuesday, Moskalkova supposedly stated that Vinnik has been in serious condition because of the hunger strike he commenced in November last year. Moskalkova also specified that Vinnik’s wife is utterly ill and is on the edge of death. Further ombudswoman stated: “Given the extraordinary humanitarian situation, I would ask for help extraditing him [Vinnik] to Russia so that he could be closer to his family.” In the course of February end, Moskalkova stated on Michalis Kalogirou, Greek Justice Minister to deliver Vinnik to Russia accompanying his worsening health and the instituti...

The Chinese supposed Bitcoin (BTC) billionaire Zhao Dong hopes that the crypto spring will only arrive in 2020. Also, his opinion, segmented in a public chat in local messenger WeChat, was cited by Chinese crypto outlet 8BTC on Feb. 12, Tuesday. Zhao Dong, who possesses a considerable stake in Hong Kong-associated crypto exchange Bitfinex, has lately contributed in a conversation conducted in the chat called “The Public Chain Alliance Crossing the Bulls and Bears Elite Team.” And when inquired about the future of BTC, Zhao Dong remembered the peak of the coin’s reputation in December 2017. As compared to that time, no one upkeep about BTC today, he stated, supplementing that the coin will derive attention again only when its rate approaches “many tens of thousands of dollars” once yet again. Consequently, in the entrepreneur’s opinion, a bear market is the perfect time to purchase BTC. In addition to it, Zhao Dong also mentione...

The Adult entertainment crypto-based project SpankChain was anonymously hacked and suffered a loss of 165.38 ETH, around $38000 reported by the firm on its Medium page on October 9. The hack which originally took place on Saturday at 6.00 pm PST was spotted by Spank Chain a day after, and was disclosed today in a blog post dubbed “We Got Spanked: What We Know So Far”. Incognito hackers managed to breach the system and flee with 165.38 ETH from the firm’s payment channel smart contract. In addition to this, the hack caused the arrest of $4000 which is worth of project’s internal token known as BOOTY. Though most of the funds belong to the firm itself, SpankChain claimed that client refunds are of foremost importance. The firm will soon reimburse $9300 worth of Ethereum and ICO tokens directly to users account through Airdrop. The SpankChain developers were in the midst of inspecting smart contract bugs at the time of the attack. Consequently, the firm was ...

Cameron Winklevoss specified that the Bitcoin is most probably the champion in the long run during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session held on Reddit. Cameron Winklevoss specified that the Bitcoin is most probably the champion in the long run during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session held on Reddit today, January 7.  Replying a query about whether or not Bitcoin will be able to keep its top-notch position among the other cryptocurrencies, Cameron voiced his positive outlook on the Bitcoin, stating that “Bitcoin is surely the OG cryptocurrency. It’s really difficult to beat the network effects — so with respect to ‘hard money’ BTC is most probably the winner in the long run.” The Winklevoss twins also stated in today’s AMA session that they “are devoted as ever to building an ETF (exchange-traded fund) a truth!” At some another point during the conversation, Cameron’s twin brother Tyler said: “We consider BTC is superior at being gold than gold. If we’re correct, then, in th...