The idea of cryptocurrency was first conceived in the 1980s but it was not until 2009 that the first open-sourced software, Bitcoin, was released. There are now dozens of blockchains but they have unt ...

The West African nation of Guinea has up to one quarter of the world’s known reserves of bauxite, a key raw material used to make aluminum. A group of military officers calling themselves the ‘Nationa ...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project will likely be completed this month, Rainer Seele, the head of the Austrian oil giant OMV, told the Russian Vedomosti newspaper.Asked when con ...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The price of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency surpassed the $51,000 mark in the early hours of Monday, for the first time since May 13.Data from the Binance cryptocurrency exchange showed ...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Iraqi government and French oil and gas company TotalEnergies have signed a $27 billion investment deal to develop the country's oil and gas fields, the office of Iraqi Prime Mi ...

During his visit to Washington last week for talks with President Biden, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the two countries view the Russian-European gas pipeline project as a “threat ...