From the Altai Mountains to the Gobi Desert: Tokenizing the history of nomadi...
The firm behind the namesake platform wants to bring Mongolian artists to the world stage and promote an authentic cultural experience to tourists through the Metaverse. Mongolia is a land of endless steppes, hosting mystic Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and fierce horse warriors blessed by the eternal Tengri, the sky god in folk shamanism. For centuries, the harsh, cold climate of the plains forced its people to venture to the world beyond in a series of journeys and conquests. And now, blockchain enthusiasts can hear their stories in the form of nonfungible tokens through the Mongol NFT....
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An IT specialist working for a medical institution in Russia’s Altai Republic has been detained for illegally mining cryptocurrency at the premises of a Covid-19 hospital. The man minted digital currencies using stolen electricity for almost a year before law enforcement busted his crypto farm.
Altai Resident Apprehended for Running Underground Crypto Mining Operation
An employee of the republican hospital in Gorno-Altaisk, the capital town of the Altai Republic in southern Siberia, has been arrested for setting up a crypto farm at a medical facility. He had been running....
A special agent with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says the tax agency is “seeing mountains and mountains of fraud” in the cryptocurrency space. The IRS criminal investigation unit is trying to train all of its agents on crypto and non-fungible token (NFT) issues because “this space is the future,” he stressed.
IRS Special Agent Says Crypto Is Rife With ‘Mountains and Mountains of Fraud’
A special agent in charge of the IRS’ criminal investigation division in Los Angeles, Ryan Korner, talked about cryptocurrency at a....
Today, we caught up with Bob Ras, CEO, and Co-founder of Sologenic, a foundation that synergizes different financial markets by tokenizing various asset classes on a decentralized ecosystem built on the XRP ledger. The Sologenic team is focused on bringing both cryptocurrencies and non-blockchain assets under one umbrella for the ease of trading. During this […]
Black Rock City excludes buying and selling by definition. Rising from the Nevada desert for the annual Burning Man festival, it's a temporary community where rental van logos are covered to avoid commercialism and where a bike ride might net you a free dance lesson or a grilled cheese sandwich from a billionaire, but no shopping. So what is a cryptocurrency camp doing at Burning Man, an event where even bartering is deemed too capitalistic? Relax. It's dogecoin. Late-model burgundy caravan. In the official Burning Man database, the camp is registered as Camp Bitcoin. But after hatching a....
IRS chief sees “mountains and mountains” of fraud in NFTs and cryptocurrencies as demand continues to rise going forward in 2022. A top special agent from the Internal Revenue Service has told a conference that NFTs and crypto are the “future” but highlighted that fraud and manipulation is still rampant in the space. Ryan Korner from the IRS Criminal Investigation’s Los Angeles field office made the comments virtual event held on Tuesday by the USC Gould School of Law, Korner. Bloomberg reports Korner said: “We’re just seeing mountains and mountains of fraud in this area.”He told the event....