2018-11-30 00:08 |
The AriseCoin ICO pulled in over $4 million. The man behind it allegedly promised some things he couldn’t deliver.
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Blockchain-based social media platform Steemit Inc. , the company behind popular open source website Steemit. com, has announced a structural reorganization which will entail laying off 70 percent of its workforce as it looks for new ways to cut costs and remain sustainable as a business.
2018-11-29 22:53 | |
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For the first time, the U. S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has traced illicit bitcoin activity to the public addresses of two sanctioned individuals.
2018-11-29 21:41 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase’s VC arm – Coinbase Ventures, has invested in a new project named “Securitize” in a bid to propel blockchain technology-based securities industry in the U. S. , reports TechCrunch, November 26, 2018.
2018-11-28 00:00 | |
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Just when you thought Facebook has put the worst of its troubles behind, the social media giant revealed on Friday that it had experienced a new security incident that possibly affected 90 million users.
2018-11-20 17:28 | |
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Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCH ABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCH SV).
2018-11-17 02:13 | |
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Sweden‘s northernmost county opened its arms to two cryptocurrency mining firms earlier this year – but it might now be regretting the decision. The county of Norrbotten, Sweden is playing host to a cryptocurrency mining mystery.
2018-11-14 13:15 | |
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The Bitfury Group has acquired a minority stake in blockchain services firm Final Frontier. Both organizations are looking to utilize each other’s knowledge and experience in the traditional and digital finance spaces to potentially release a new line of financial products and services designed to assist professional investors in getting their hands on digital assets.
2018-11-14 00:53 | |
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Pure Bit lured investors in with promises of a rewarding ICO then mysteriously vanished, taking 13,000 worth of ETH with them. There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute The South Korean exchange is accused of pulling an exit scam after raising nearly 13,000 ETH ($2.
2018-11-13 18:00 | |
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The Stellar Development Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Stellar (XLM), announced on Tuesday that they will be doing the… The post Stellar Conducts Largest Ever Crypto Airdrop, Gives Away $125 Million Worth of XLM to Blockchain Wallet Users appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2018-11-9 11:03 | |
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Cybersecurity experts from Mitsubishi Group say they may have identified data that could locate the hackers of the Zaif crypto exchange.
2018-11-5 17:35 | |
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Older generations play with real pets. Today’s iPhone crowd spends cryptos to breed make-believe pets that have special “cattributes. ” Dapper Labs on Friday announced $15 million in new funds from a who’s who of investing powerhouses, showing big tech’s optimism towards interactive games powered on blockchain.
2018-11-3 17:36 | |
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Dapper Labs, the company behind the world’s first and most successful consumer blockchain product, CryptoKitties, has raised $15 million in financing led by Venrock, in an aim to bring more users to the blockchain, the company announced in a press release on November 1, 2018.
2018-11-2 12:00 | |
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CoinSpeaker CryptoKitties Creator Dapper Labs Raises $15 Million from Venrock, Google, and Samsung Dapper Labs, a startup behind CryptoKitties, has recently raised $15 million in a funding round led by Venrock, with participation from Google Ventures and Samsung Next.
2018-11-2 10:37 | |
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CryptoKitties was one of the most successful blockchain products for customers ever launched that is not a crypto for trading. Now, the company behind this phenomena, Dapper Labs, is planning to enhance its own platform with the backing of some relevant technology companies.
2018-11-2 10:20 | |
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CryptoNinjas Dapper Labs, the company behind the most successful consumer blockchain product, CryptoKitties, announced today they have raised USD $15 million in financing led by Venrock, with participation from GV (formerly Google.
2018-11-2 20:34 | |
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StarkWare, the company behind the zk-STARKS privacy tech, just raised $30 million in equity funding from a number of major firms.
2018-10-30 18:00 | |
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Tether Ltd. , the company behind the controversial USDT stable coin recently announced the burning of 500 Million Tether tokens. Tether has just destroyed 500M USDt from the Tether treasury wallet with the following tx: https://t.
2018-10-25 17:45 | |
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The team and developers behind the Waves coin have been undergoing several tests to determine the exact nature and capability of its network. The results so far have been entirely outstanding, and they show that the Waves blockchain is efficient and ready to serve its client base more effectively. Here is a break down of […]
2018-10-25 03:51 | |
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Decreed global VC firm known for offering multi-stage investment, SOSV has recently revealed its plans for a cryptocurrency-backed accelerator (i. e. to accelerate crypto transactions) dubbed ‘DLab’.
2018-10-24 17:32 | |
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Swiss digital asset exchange Trade. io claims hackers have stolen nearly $8M million worth of cryptocurrency directly from its cold storage devices, which were supposedly kept under lock and key in a bank.
2018-10-22 18:11 | |
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Although there have been over $882 million cryptocurrencies stolen from online exchanges since 2017, Lazarus, a North Korean, state-sponsored group is responsible for the majority of stolen tokens. According to an article published by The Next Web on October 19, 2018, the Lazarus Group took over $571 million cryptocurrencies and will continue to do so in the future.
2018-10-22 15:00 | |
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North Korean cybercrime hacking group The Lazarus Group is currently the biggest crypto hacking syndicate in the world, having stolen millions worth of cryptocurrencies from online exchanges.
2018-10-20 00:22 | |
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The Sia blockchain network has released the formal code for a hard fork that will block miners using hardware produced by Bitmain and other manufacturers to mine the network’s token Siacoin (SC).
2018-10-22 18:06 | |
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The Bangkok Post reports that the prime suspect in an ongoing investigation surrounding a $24 million Bitcoin scam has been arrested. Prinya Jaravijit is believed to have swindled Finnish investor Aarni Otava Saarimaa with false claims that Saarimaa’s multi-million dollar investment was going towards a series of stock investments in Thailand.
2018-10-14 19:16 | |
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Cryptocurrency money laundering laws are proving to be effective as criminals are using only unregulated exchanges to siphon their money off. The CipherTrace Third Quarter Report shows that there is $927 million worth of stolen digital currencies waiting to be laundered in 2018.
2018-10-12 15:49 | |
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Despite a flurry of media attention surrounding the project, Civil, an Ethereum-based platform aiming to save journalism, can’t seem to get enough buyers for its token.
2018-10-12 23:57 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) held its ground when the stock market plunged deep into the red yesterday. Both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average registered significant drops. However, Bitcoin (BTC) remained unaffected by it.
2018-10-11 17:00 | |
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The number of blockchain-related companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein has doubled in the last year, according to a new study published by CV VC. The Zug-based firm, in partnership with Strategy& (PwC’s global consulting arm) and inacta, compiled information about the top 50 blockchain and digital asset companies between the two countries.
2018-10-11 00:18 | |
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Binance has removed four digital currencies from its listing which has left them crashing down in the ranks. As of yesterday, 9th October, one of the biggest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges from around the world, Binance has announced that four tokens are going to be removed from the platform until further notice.
2018-10-10 14:00 | |
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The founding team behind Wunderlist, the productivity app acquired by Microsoft in 2015, today announced they’ve raised $19 million to bring their next project to life: Pitch. com. The idea behind Pitch is attractive to anyone frustrated with the limits of existing presentation software.
2018-10-9 16:00 | |
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Financial savings have long been the foundation of wealth and asset building. However, we are now in a time when the growing obsolescence of financial institutions has forced certain technologies out of date, created high fees, revealed structural inefficiencies and, ultimately, meant that some standard investment solutions now fail to place consumer needs first.
2018-10-6 16:37 | |
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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – October 4, 2018 – BitTorrent, Inc. , the company behind the world’s most popular P2P communications protocol and products, today announced that µTorrent Web surpassed 1,000,000 daily active users.
2018-10-4 10:31 | |
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Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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Although the number of individuals signed up for Coinbase has reportedly surpassed 20 million, boasting a user base that some institutions would envy, some analysts claim that the crypto and blockchain industry and the firms backing it still have the potential to undergo a monumental round of maturation and expansion.
2018-9-27 13:30 | |
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Tech Bureau, the company behind recently hacked cryptocurrency exchange Zaif have been issued a third (and probably final) warning by the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA). The warning has come in the form of a Business Improvement Order, one that stipulates certain improvements that must be made to a financial based business otherwise they risk having their license to trade revoked.
2018-9-25 21:30 | |
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Japanese Giant SBI Remit Allows Customers to Send Money To Africa Using Bitcoin’s Blockchain Bitcoin continues its expansion all over the world. This time, the Japanese money transfer company SBI Remit will allow over half a million customers to send money to Africa using Bitcoin.
2018-9-24 23:00 | |
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LinkedIn has been keeping its finger on the pulse of the United States’ most thriving startups, and crypto organizations are showing tremendous signs of life — and growth.
2018-9-8 23:36 | |
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The Australian Securities Exchange is questioning an IT firm behind a listed penny stock seeking to raise $15 million via a token sale.
2018-9-5 09:30 | |
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Popular cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex have announced that they will be delisting Bitcoin Gold (BTG) and all BTG trading pairs after the team behind BTG refused to pay out compensation to Bittrex who suffered as a result of hacks that took place on the BTG network in May 2018.
2018-9-4 15:30 | |
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Bitcoin community members continue to piece together the story behind a huge wallet containing over 111,000 BTC ($802 million) — which suddenly became active after over four years. Coins Go To Bitfinex, Binance The results of multiple analyses by Reddit user u/sick_silk reveal the owner of the wallet, which first appeared in May 2014 with a balance of 111,114.
2018-9-3 16:00 | |
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Binance, Huobi, OKEx and Dunamu (the company behind Korean crypto exchange Upbit) have announced plans to partner on a $32 million stablecoin project called ‘Terra.’ According to an August 28, 2018 report in Fortune, the purpose of Terra is to get skeptical consumers into the crypto space by offering them a digital asset that does not suffer from the legendary...The post %%POSTLINK%% appeared first on %%BLOGLINK%%.
2018-8-30 21:00 | |
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Yet another cryptocurrency-based Ponzi MLM scheme surfaced on August 25, 2018, as the police caught five fraudsters in the city of Hyderabad, India. While raiding a local real estate firm, GRM Estates Pvt.
2018-8-29 05:00 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC), Tether (USDT)–Despite Tether (USDT) printing over half a billion dollars worth of new coinage throughout the month of August, financial news outlet Bloomberg reports the move has had little to no impact upon the crypto markets.
2018-8-27 22:04 | |
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Cryptocurrency trading service Coinberry has partnered with BRD, a secure bitcoin wallet service, in a deal that promises to bring BRD's Canadian users onto Coinberry's no-fee trading platform.
2018-8-21 18:52 | |
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DigixGlobal has asked for $20 million worth of eth, amounting to around 70,000 eth from their total of circa 470,000 raised in an ICO in 2016. The team behind DigixDAO (DGD)... The post Digix Asks for $20 Million Worth of Eth, DAI it Say Token Holders appeared first on Trustnodes.
2018-8-19 17:35 | |
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Local Universities in Hong Kong Awarded $20 Million to Pursue Research Regarding Blockchain-Based Payment Systems Based on a report from China News on August 12th, it seems that Hong Kong does not want to be left behind when it comes to blockchain technology.
2018-8-18 23:59 | |
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Over the weekend, information surfaced that could suggest that mining giant Bitmain may be facing an uphill battle as it looks to launch an IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
2018-8-15 00:47 | |
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Neil Walsh, chief of the cybercrime and anti-money laundering arm of the United Nations' department on drugs and crime, has stated that the "anonymizing and pseudo-anonymizing" aspects of cryptocurrencies have made it extremely difficult to combat terrorist financing, money laundering, and cybercrime.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled with crypto exchange Bitqyck and its founders Bruce Bise and Sam Mendez over what the SEC believed was an unregistered token sale that raised $13 million.
Yesterday, August 28, Paige Thompson was indicted after allegedly hacking Capital One and 30 other entities. Along with being charged with wire fraud and computer fraud and abuse, court documents state Thompson used Capital One's cloud servers to mine cryptocurrency.
Federal court has entered case-ending sanctions against Craig Wright in the long-running court battle between Wright and the estate of his deceased developer partner, Dave Kleiman. Judge Bruce E.
The Central Bank of Brazil has adopted the International Monetary Fund's crypto classification guidelines, meaning traded cryptocurrencies within the country will be classified as non-financial products and, as such, will be counted as goods on the central bank’s balance sheet.
Westwood, California, resident Kunal Kalra has pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange and ATM. Kalra allegedly took part in $25 million worth of trading without obtaining a money-remitting business license or implementing any anti-money laundering processes.
Last week, six members from the US House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee met with Swiss regulators, including the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner and the Financial Market Supervisory Authority, to discuss Facebook's Libra project.