2021-11-12
The world's fastest-growing major financial exchange has no head office or formal address, lacks licenses in countries where it operates and has a chief executive who until recently wouldn't answer questions about his location https://www.wsj.com/... via @kowsmann @ceostroff
Wall Street Journal
A look at Binance, which sources say could be worth $300B if it goes public, as its unfettered, unregulated growth comes to an end amid global scrutiny
absent headquarters, offices and licenses. Now governments are asserting control. https://www.wsj.com/... Patricia Kowsmann / @kowsmann : This is the story of Binance. In 2017 it s...
2021-01-04
For Russia, cyber operations are a relatively inexpensive and effective way to conduct geopolitics, said @BilyanaLilly https://www.wsj.com/...
New York Times
Sources: investigators are checking if SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering
Those behind the widespread intrusion into government and corporate networks exploited seams in U.S. defenses and gave away nothing to American monitoring of their systems.
2020-09-17
For years, Lukashenko, who once called the internet a “pile of garbage,” left Belarus's booming tech sector to its own devices. Now, tech companies, some targeted by authorities, are heading for the exits, threatening the country's main growth driver https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Belarus was once a magnet for tech startups, thanks to cheap labor, but protests against Lukashenko and brutal crackdowns could change that
Georgi Kantchev / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @tggrove , @yarotrof , @georgikantchev , @stegersaurus , @agfilipiak , and @paulhannon29 Tweets: Thomas Grove / @tggrove : As Lukas...
2018-02-22
Jihadists encourage backers to contribute anonymously with bitcoin “I would call it a money-laundering revolution.” by @brett_forrest @ScheckWSJ https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Experts say Islamic State has been fundraising using cryptocurrencies, often soliciting via Telegram, as US government plans investigations
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @riptari , @ncweaver , @paulvieira , and @georgikantchev Tweets: Natasha / @riptari : In case you needed another reason to hate on the crypto/ICO cra...