29-year-old Jonathan Cowden has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for hacking the website of Nefesh BNefesh (Jewish Souls United), an organization that encourages and facilitates the immigration of Jewish people from North America and the UK to Israel. The organization was targeted in January 2012 as part of a hacktivist operation against Israel. […]
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said on Wednesday it was considering regulation of bitcoin and warned citizens that using such decentralized virtual currencies was risky. Israel, home to pioneering firms in hi-tech fields such as cryptography, has emerged as a bitcoin hotspot, prompting central bank governor Karnit Flug to convene a meeting this […]
By Ari Rabinovitch TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Welcome to the new economy, boasts a sign at the entrance of the self-styled Bitcoin Embassy in the heart of Tel Aviv. The sparely furnished property opened a few months ago to support a community of Bitcoin fanatics, perhaps the most active in the world, who are out […]
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