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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has taken over Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the world’s wealthiest person. The Bloomberg billionaires index, which tracks the net worth of the world’s wealthiest, has indicated that Gates has overtaken Bezos based on an over 40% increase in his 1% stake in technology giant Microsoft and his investments in his family office Cascade. For the first time in two years, Gates has taken over the top spot after reports emerged that the United States Department of...

In what seems like a story out of spy movies, the Russian service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has allegedly linked about $450 million of missing crypto assets from the long moribund cryptocurrency exchange Wex with to Russia Federal Security Bureau (FSB).The BBC has for six years been investigating the collapse of BTC-e which many have believed was a front for the alleged laundering of over $4 billion worth of Bitcoins and why Alexander Vinnik is being accused of the same....

Crypto.com, a financial services provider based in Hong Kong, has launched a new cryptocurrency exchange that will allow people to sell, buy and trade up to nine different cryptocurrencies.Crypto.com Brings a Whole New Side to TradingThe Crypto.com platform has greatly expanded over the previous year. Customers can attach their digital wallets to Visa cards so they can quickly purchase crypto or add new coins to their stashes. The company also offers staking rewards, allowing people to earn...

SIM-swapping cases appear to be a recurring incident in the cryptocurrency world, but the latest case involves two individuals displaying aggression that has yet to be seen in situations like this.SIM-Swapping: Is It Becoming More Common?The two people accused of the SIM-swapping are 21-year-old Eric Meiggs and 20-year-old Declan Harrington, who reportedly went after two very high-ranking social media executives. When they were caught, they allegedly spewed out threats to the victims’ family...

Late last month, the United States Department of Defense announced that the much-discussed Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, had been finally awarded to Microsoft. After the announcement, many including Amazon itself seemed sincerely surprised that the contract didn’t go to Amazon. Now, Amazon has decided to officially challenge the contract award.According to a Federal Times report, Amazon Web Services (AWS) officially filed with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims...

Famous cryptocurrency website Cointelegraph announced on Friday it is launching its own consulting allotment in order to enable the biggest companies to adopt blockchain as such. With that in mind, Cointelegraph plans to focus on thoroughly chosen blockchain participants that will be able to fulfill any promises they might eventually give to selected enterprise players.However, the whole selection process will not be that simple. There is already a huge criteria combo that they will have to...

The environmental effects of cryptocurrency mining on our planet are allegedly more costly than we might have thought, according to a new report.Cryptocurrency Mining Report Provides a Dollar FigureThe document, which is entitled “Crypto Damages: Monetary Value Estimates of the Air Pollution and Human Health Impacts of Cryptocurrency Mining” has been published in the scientific journal “Energy Research and Social Science.” It was authored by several researchers at the University of New Mexico...

Leading financial services company Alipay has indicated that it will enable 10 million European small and medium enterprises to be able to reach more than 2 billion customers which come from all corners of the world to Europe. Alipay intends to do this within the next five years. The payment service indicated this yesterday at the Alipay Partners Global Summit which held in London. It also expanded its partnership with Worldline which is its principal acquirer in the region and also...

Current fundamentals show that the majority of crypto-currencies move widely in a range, extending their lateral trade, without showing any significant gain in the short term.The total market capitalization of cryptocurrency currently stands at about $ 238 billion, while Bitcoin accounts for about 65.8% of the total value and, in terms of market capitalization,  XRP is the third-largest coin and is not excluded from the recent downward trend, the crypto saves price of $ 0.270 per piece,...

Microsoft has hinted that its upcoming game streaming service xCloud, will be officially launched next year. The company has also announced a few new games that will be launched along with xCloud and will also be available on the current Game Pass feature available.At the company’s XO19 Xbox event currently ongoing in London, Microsoft made the revelation about xCloud, adding further details including that all xCloud subscribers will have access to the over 100 games available currently on...