On Saturday, February 12, the bitcoin network hashrate hit an all-time high above 248 EH/s. Over the course of the day, the figure increased by more than 30%, according to Glassnode. The hashrate graph of the first cryptocurrency, smoothed by a 7-day moving average, has been on an upward trajectory for the past three months. […]

Oil prices, which on Friday updated highs since September 2014, continue to rise on Monday. The market jumped sharply on February 11 after reports emerged that U.S. authorities expect Russia to invade Ukraine soon. A telephone conversation between U.S. and Russian Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin on Saturday failed to ease tensions, Bloomberg news […]

The level of collective immunity to the coronavirus in Russia, which is calculated based on the number of vaccinated and over-vaccinated people, fell to 61.9% from 64.1% in a week, the operational headquarters for fighting the epidemic said on Friday. “This indicator is decreasing due to the loss of immunity by the primary vaccinated and […]

Almost every second Russian (47%) would like to tie his salary to the dollar or euro exchange rate, 31% of fellow citizens consider such a tie unnecessary, according to the survey data of the Research Center of SuperJob.ru portal. According to the survey, among the age categories, citizens under 34 years of age (56%) consider […]

In 2021, malicious programs for illegal cryptocurrency mining or cryptocurrency wallet theft began spreading through unique NFT tokens and mobile applications, according to Kommersant. Alexander Pirozhkov, head of ESET Threat Inelligence, told the publication that previously such viruses were mainly infected via torrent resources and sites with adult content. According to ESET, gamers are increasingly […]

The price of gas in Europe at the opening of trading for the first time since late January rose above $1000 per thousand cubic meters, according to data from the London-based ICE exchange. The total increase in the cost amounted to about 13.7%. The price of January futures at the TTF hub in the Netherlands […]

Gold prices fell on Monday from a three-month peak reached at the previous session under pressure from the strengthening of the US dollar and bond yields, but the fall in prices was halted by rising tensions around Ukraine, supporting demand for bullion. The spot gold price was down 0.25 percent to $1,855.36 a troy ounce […]

Singapore’s largest bank DBS Bank intends to open a digital asset trading platform focused on individual investors by the end of 2022. This was announced by its CEO Piyush Gupta at a conference with analysts, writes CoinDesk. The top executive said that in the realization of the initiative DBS Bank awaits “huge work” in the […]

Investor and billionaire Jeffrey Gundlach, who specializes in bonds, said that a number of signs of economic recession are showing themselves in the market recently. Business Insider writes about this. First, consumer sentiment fell on Friday to a new decade low, and it was a reliable leading indicator of where the economy is headed in […]

 The work of the application “Tinkoff Investments” on Monday, February 14, there was a failure, a representative of the company told Forbes. “A small part of users had problems with logging into the application for 15 minutes and for half an hour – with the visibility of the “glass”. This is a minor glitch, the […]

Electric car company Polestar showed its new commercial during the broadcast of the final Super Bowl game of the U.S. National Football League in which it challenged Tesla and Volkswagen. The commercial is posted on Polestar’s official YouTube channel. The 30-second commercial is called “No Compromises” and contains several talking points regarding what the Polestar […]

Software developers and stackers will also be exempted from tax reporting requirements The U.S. Department of the Treasury in response to the appeal of senators sent them a letter in which they announced plans to exempt cryptocurrency miners, stackers and software developers from the need to report to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This […]

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that the opportunities for a dialog between Russia and the United States on security issues in Europe are “far from exhausted”. He said this during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. “We warn against the inadmissibility of endless conversations on issues that need to be resolved today. But still, […]

A crypto investor announced the creation of a city for bitcoin supporters in the Pacific Ocean, and the bitcoin network hashrate has hit an all-time high – these and other important cryptocurrency market news in our daily review. Texas residents Brent Whitehead and Matt Lochstroh have created a company that mines bitcoins from oil fields. […]

Non-residents and subsidiaries of foreign organizations for the incomplete two weeks of January 2022 (from January 13 to 25, while negotiations on security were underway) bought currency on the market for 164.3 billion rubles, according to data presented in the review of financial market risks prepared by the Central Bank of Russia. This is comparable […]

Shares of podcast platform Audioboom rose more than 20% on news of interest in it from Spotify and Amazon. Experts believe that such a service would be a “good addition” for each of the companies, writes Bloomberg. Audioboom Group’s share price on the London Stock Exchange on Monday morning is £21.75 ($29.4) – up 23% […]

The Federal Reserve System (FRS) of the United States on Monday, February 14, will hold an unscheduled closed meeting of the Board of Governors in an accelerated order. This is reported by the press service of the regulator. At the meeting, which begins at 19:30 Moscow time, will consider the advance rate and discount rate. […]

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has reported to President Vladimir Putin that the Russian military is conducting exercises in almost all military districts, and some of them are either being completed or will be completed soon. The West is concerned about Russia’s military activity, seeing it as a precursor to an invasion of Ukraine. Russia […]