Eight people have been remanded in custody for 30 days. They are under investigation in connection with alleged cryptocurrency fraud schemes, which are claimed to have defrauded foreign nationals. Another suspect, a security guard at a call centre in Chișinău where the group’s activities were allegedly coordinated, will remain in custody for a further 20 days.
An unknown solo miner mined block 974,893 on the Bitcoin network and received a reward of 3.1335 BTC (approximately $238,000). Con Kolivas, the developer and administrator of the CKPool, boasted about this achievement.
Today, you can pay with cryptocurrency for hotels, flights, electronics, video games and even cars. However, merchants often receive conventional dollars, whilst the cryptocurrency portion of the payment remains invisible to them. Under such circumstances, can digital assets be considered a form of money in their own right?
Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics firm, reported that hackers had gained access to the password hashes and active authentication tokens of all users on its platform. This forced the company to suspend several key services as part of measures to counter the ongoing cyberattack.
From 6 November 2026, BPAY’s services have been temporarily suspended following a decision by the Executive Committee of the National Bank of Moldova. BPAY cards are unavailable for the duration of the suspension.
The official Trump token ($TRUMP) has fallen by more than 15 per cent over the past 24 hours and is currently trading at around $1.27. According to CoinGecko, the token hit a new all-time low of $1.22 after the Democrats gained control of both houses of the US Congress in the mid-term elections.
Bitcoin rose on Wednesday, following a broader recovery in risk assets: the markets reacted positively to the certainty surrounding US politics following the Democrats’ victory in the mid-term congressional elections.
An investigation has been launched in France following suspicious bets on the outcome of the 2026 Ballon d’Or vote. The award organisers and France Football magazine contacted the police after several users of the Polymarket platform accurately predicted not only the winner’s name but also the entire top five.
Blockchain researcher ZachXBT has revised his estimate of the alleged cryptocurrency theft from an unidentified organisation in the European Union upwards to more than $133 million.
The crypto market has almost recovered from the slump that followed the $6 billion Binance hack at the end of October. The largest crypto exchange had suspended but has since resumed withdrawals, after which the Bitcoin price rose by 2 per cent from its local low and returned to the $78,000 mark.
