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The Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation, an organization raising money for Ukraine’s war effort against Russia, has used crypto actively in its fundraising and is seeing donations rise in crypto terms even as the market has fallen from its highs.

Governments across Europe issued extreme heat warnings with temperatures forecast to top +40°C in several parts of the continent. 

A Bitcoin node is a pivotal piece of the Bitcoin (BTC) protocol. For bad actors, attacking nodes and bringing them offline is a sound strategy to undermine the network’s resilience. For one British Bitcoiner, such an attack took place, as the actions of his feline friend rendered his Bitcoin node “unreachable.”

The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his cabinet were accused on Sunday of not taking the impending heat emergency seriously as forecasters warned of its risk to human lives.

Russia is preparing for the next stage of its offensive in Ukraine, a Ukrainian military official said, after the Kremlin said its forces would step up its attacks in "all operational areas".

blockchain company 5ire has raised $100 million at a valuation of $1.5 billion from UK-based SRAM & MRAM Group. The company was founded in August last year, by Pratik Gauri, Prateek Dwivedi, and Vilma Mattila. 5ire had earlier raised a funding of $21 million in its seed round at a valuation of $110 million in October last year, with participation from both private and institutional investors like, Marshland Capital, Launchpool Labs, Moonrock Capital, and other investors. “Our valuation jump has come from the fact of 12 pending patents that we have and all the other proof of benefit consensus that we've built… The UK-based conglomerate own about 800 hospitals a lot of real estates. So we will also get access to a lot of relationship capital,” said cofounder Gauri.

The Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation, an organization raising money for Ukraine’s war effort against Russia, has used crypto actively in its fundraising and is seeing donations rise in crypto terms even as the market has fallen from its highs.

An Indian blockchain company 5ire, recently raised $100 million in a Series A round of funding from UK-based Sram and Mram. The company with a $1.5 billion valuation has suddenly emerged as the latest addition to the Unicorns in India.

A British aid worker, captured in eastern Ukraine, died in custody on 10 July, separatist authorities announced on Friday. 

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As on-chain activities slow down during the crypto winter, usage of cryptocurrency mixers has doubled in 2022, with addresses classified as "illicit" being the top contributor. 

The UK's accounting watchdog is turning up the heat on exam cheats, ordering the sector's biggest firms to explain how they are putting an end to the practice.

An ambitious sustainability-based blockchain project has secured $100 million in a Series A funding round to drive its development.

This year, Spain, France and Italy have allowed Binance to operate in their markets.

A sandbox test of a retail full-reserve digital currency (FRDC) has been completed in the United Kingdom, distributed ledger fintech company Millicent Labs announced July 14. The test was a demonstration for Innovate UK, a branch of the government’s UK Research and Innovation, which co-funded the company. 

American actor, writer and comedian Billy Murray is a globally known figure within the entertainment industry following an acclaimed and on-going career that spans six decades.

The chief executive of the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority, or FCA, said the U.K. government will be working with its counterparts in the United States to address a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies. 

Twitter was down for thousands of users across the globe on Thursday, its first such outage since February, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

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Barclays has cut back on junior bonuses this year in a sign that a deal slump is set to hit pay for bankers.

Volatile markets are putting significant strain on UK fund firms' bottom lines, latest results show.