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US charges two Russians in hack of Mt. Gox crypto exchange

WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - The United States has charged two Russian nationals in the hack of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox, one of the world's earliest, biggest and most widely publicized alleged bitcoin heists.The department in a statement said Alexey Bilyuchenko, 43, and Aleksandr Verner, 29, were charged with conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins from their hack of Mt. Gox, which collapsed in 2014 after losing what was then worth about half a billion dollars in cryptocurrency.The event was one of the first signs of how vulnerable exchanges...
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Exclusive: Russian banker Kostin says the end of U.S. dollar dominance is nigh

Russian Rouble and U.S. Dollar banknotes are seen in this illustration taken, February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationTop banker: This is 'hot war' not Cold WarKostin: Dollar use will be hurt by West's sanctionsKostin: China moving towards removing currency restrictionsKostin: Record VTB profit this yearKostin: VTB to sell one of biggest grain tradersMOSCOW, June 9 (Reuters) - The end of the dominance of the U.S. dollar is nigh as the Chinese yuan rises and the rest of the world sees the peril of the West's failed attempt to bring Russia to...
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