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Most IT professionals who get paid in USDT do the same thing: withdraw to fiat and forget. The logic is clear — a stable currency, a clear exchange rate, minimal headaches. But it is at this point that money stops working.

Many people have answered a call from an unknown number at least once and heard silence on the phone. Sometimes the person you’re talking to appears only after a few seconds, and sometimes the conversation never begins. In fact, this could be part of a scam designed to verify that the number is active and that a real person is answering it, Shane Barney, director of information security at Keeper Security, told ZDNET.

Tens of billions of dollars per month — this is exactly the amount of money, according to Vladyslav Vlasyuk, the Presidential Commissioner for Sanctions Policy, that Russia is «driving» through cryptocurrency in order not only to circumvent the economic sanctions imposed on it, but also to purchase components for its weapons in Europe, the USA, and other countries of the Western world. This problem is very acute. How exactly are Ukraine and the EU fighting it? Vladislav Vlasyuk told about this and more in an interview with dev.ua. Also read about whether a complete «ban» of cryptocurrency trade with Russia by Europe is real, how many cryptocurrency exchanges are under sanctions, and how unknown «well-wishers» and special services are helping to unravel the chains of cryptocurrency connections.

Global oil prices exceeded $100 per barrel for the first time since July 2022. Brent (the global benchmark) rose to around $107–108 per barrel, US WTI to around $106 per barrel.