LONDON : Bitcoin’s long-anticipated ‘halving’ is, depending on where you sit, a vital event that will burnish the cryptocurrency’s value as an increasingly scarce commodity, or little more than a technical change talked up by speculators to inflate its price.The halving comes after bitcoin hit an all-time high of $73,803.25…
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SINGAPORE: There were more than 70 reports of victims receiving extortion letters with manipulated obscene photos of themselves since March, police said on Friday (Apr 19). The letters, which were sent by post to the victims’ workplaces, contained pictures of the victims’ faces superimposed onto obscene photographs of a man…
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HOW DID IRAN RESPOND? Air defence systems over several Iranian cities were activated, state media reported. Flights to the cities of Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz were suspended, as were airports across several parts of the country, according to the Mehr news agency. Flight-tracking software showed commercial flights avoiding western Iran,…
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ABUJA : A Nigerian court on Friday adjourned a tax evasion trial against cryptocurrency exchange Binance and two of its executives to May 17 after the matter was stalled because the exchange has not been formally served with the charges.Binance and its executives Tigran Gambaryan, a U.S. citizen and head…
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