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Tesla announced on Monday it had purchased $1. 5bn worth of Bitcoin, which boosted the entire cryptocurrency sector. However, some criticized the move due to the added financial risk this imposed on the automaker.
2021-2-12 15:15 | |
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Being one of the most securely managed asset classes in the world is mostly a perk, but it does have its pitfalls as well. BBC News claims that there is research estimating that nearly 3. 8 million bitcoin has been lost forever by people who passed away without giving access information to anyone else.
2020-1-7 18:00 | |
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BBC spreads the word about XRP, the third biggest cryptocurrency that solves inefficient cross-border payments
2019-11-29 21:06 | |
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A BBC investigation has revealed links between Russia’s intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), and the collapse of the Wex cryptocurrency exchange in 2018. One of the sites co-founders claimed that he was forced to hand over customers’ wallet data and told the money (around $450 million) would go to “the FSB fund.
2019-11-16 13:06 | |
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Konstantin Ignatov, brother of the missing Cryptoqueen founder of OneCoin, pleads guilty to actions related to the known scam and now faces 90 years in prison. According to a BBC report on November 14, Ignatov will not risk further charges and could apply to the US witness protection.
2019-11-15 14:00 | |
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A whistleblower on the cryptocurrency scam project, Onecoin, is receiving death and sexual violence threats from supporters of the project, a BBC report uncovers. Jen McAdam, an Irish crypto investor, reported the matter to the Scottish police claiming she has been receiving the threats mainly through her Facebook page. Onecoin Supporters vile Threats Reported to […]
2019-10-15 17:58 | |
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One of the victim’s of the OneCoin cryptocurrency scam is receiving death threats for her actions against the con artists. According to the BBC, Jen McAdam from Glasgow is receiving messages threatening sexual violence and death from people whom she believes are OneCoin supporters.
2019-10-15 10:26 | |
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Not exactly unfamiliar with recurring setbacks, Libra, Facebook’s maiden venture into the cryptocurrency space seems to have hit yet another roadblock. In fact, the repercussions from this new setback could be even existential — or so it seems if we go by the content of a new G7 report, as seen by BBC.
2019-10-15 06:18 | |
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Welcome, it’s time for Moonday Mornings. If you don’t know what it is, where have you been? It’s Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. Take a look.
2019-10-7 11:52 | |
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Hollywood actress Kate Winslet is looking to sue a group of bitcoin scammers who impersonated her to get money from unsuspecting investors. According to a report on September 23, 2019, the schemers alleged that the actress made her fortune through cryptocurrency investments.
2019-9-23 19:20 | |
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Authorities in France say they have shut down a cryptocurrency mining botnet that had infected more than 850,000 computers across 100 countries. France‘s “cybergendarmes” or more formally, the C3N digital crime-fighting center was alerted to the potential fact that a server based in Paris had been distributing a virus called Retadup, BBC reports.
2019-8-29 10:32 | |
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The Retadup malware which had been deployed on hundreds of thousands of computers around the world to secretly mine the Monero cryptocurrency and commit other illegal acts may finally be over. According to the BBC, the backend infrastructure of the Retadup Monero cryptojacker which is estimated to have infected over 850,000 computers across the globe […] The post French Cops Trick Monero Cryptomining Botnet to Self-Destruct on 850,000 Computers appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-8-30 15:39 | |
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It25,000) worth of cryptocurrency. The writer and journalist shared his account with the BBC as a warning to Bitcoin beginners who might be thinking about making their first step in to, as Munford put it, “the murky world of cryptocurrency investment.
2019-8-16 11:56 | |
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The BBC is helping non-native English speakers sharpen up their cryptocurrency language skills and knowledge with a 6-minute primer on Bitcoin. In today’s episode of BBC Learning English hosts Catherine and Sam discuss cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and Facebook’s controversial digital currency Libra.
2019-8-15 15:29 | |
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Bounties Network, an Ethereum-powered platform that claims to make it possible for people to collaboratively execute tasks and get paid in ether (ETH), has launched a plastic waste eradication program in the Philippines’ Manila Bay beach, according to a BBC report on June 13, 2019.
2019-6-14 17:00 | |
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By CCN: Bitcoin is giving investors a once-in-a-generation opportunity, and one industry veteran is trying his best to spread the word. Short Seller Bullish on BTC Glen Goodman, a UK financial investor who made a name short-selling stocks and shares during the 2008 global financial crisis, calls cryptocurrency a rare opportunity for investors.
2019-5-30 20:45 | |
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According to a BBC report published on May 24, 2019, Facebook is in the final phase of launching its secretive cryptocurrency project. Crypto Project to Go Live in Q1 2020 Social media giant Facebook has for months been reportedly working on a cryptocurrency project.
2019-5-25 21:00 | |
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Rumors that Facebook has been working on a cryptocurrency haven’t exactly flown under the radar. And with the latest revelation, the Facebook cryptocurrency machine looks set to step up a gear.
2019-5-24 14:36 | |
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Facebook has been working on launching a cryptocurrency to be used on Whatsapp since 2018. It seems the project is finally coming to fruition as a report from BBC says the company could be launching the new cryptocurrency known as Globalcoin in Q1 of 2020.
2019-5-24 14:28 | |
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By CCN: Facebook’s cryptocurrency ambitions could translate into reality as soon as next year. The BBC reports that the social media behemoth is on track to start testing its bitcoin rival – known internally as GlobalCoin – by the end of the year before its digital payments system comes online across 12 countries in the first quarter of 2020.
2019-5-24 12:29 | |
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Social media giant Facebook plans to launch its own payments-focused cryptocurrency “Globalcoin” in 2020, the BBC reports
2019-5-25 12:00 | |
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Facebook, the social media giant that owns WhatsApp and Instagram, is finalizing its plans to launch its own cryptocurrency next year. According to BBC, “GlobalCoin” will roll out in 2020, with tests starting by the end of this year.
2019-5-24 11:44 | |
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Report: “Facebook’s Native Crypto Offering to be Rolled Out by 2020” As per a report released by the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) earlier today, Facebook is all set to release its much-hyped cryptocurrency — dubbed “GlobalCoin” — by next year.
2019-5-24 09:27 | |
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Social media giant Facebook is set to roll out its own cryptocurrency – internally called 'GlobalCoin' – in 2020, according to a report from the BBC.
2019-5-24 06:31 | |
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High-profile information transparency advocate and co-founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been sentenced by a British court to 50 weeks in prison for breaching bail conditions after he was forced to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in which he has been seeking refuge since 2012.
2019-5-6 09:00 | |
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My Online Security, a UK-based cybersecurity website has discovered a spoofing attack which masquerades as the BBC‘s website, and redirects users to an affiliate bitcoin generation page and phishing platform, Security Intelligence reports on January 15.
2019-1-17 20:00 | |
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Headmaster Lei Hua has been fired from his job at a school in Hunan, China, after a total of nine mining rigs were found stealing his school’s electricity to mine Ethereum, the BBC reported on Friday.
2018-11-12 02:39 | |
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BBC reports that a Swedish man has been jailed for sending a “potentially lethal homemade bomb” to a crypto firm in London. The London Metropolitan Police said that man had become enraged after the firm, Cryptopay, refused to reset his password for him.
2018-11-12 19:09 | |
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A Middle School principle in China was fired after staffers uncovered a cryptocurrency mining scheme utilizing school computers. Local media in China have begun to write about a foiled cryptocurrency mining scheme organized by the principal of Puman Middle School.
2018-11-11 08:45 | |
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A Middle School principle in China was fired after staffers uncovered a cryptocurrency mining scheme utilizing school computers. Local media in China have begun to write about a foiled cryptocurrency mining scheme organized by the principal of Puman Middle School.
2018-11-11 08:45 | |
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Robinhood, the cryptocurrency trading platform have been found to be doing the exact opposite of the Robin Hood philosophy, according to research by Logan Kane of Seeking Alpha. If you’re not au fait with British history, here’s some facts about the real Robin Hood according to the BBC: “The Robin Hood legends form part of a corpus of outlaw stories which date from around the reign of King John.
2018-9-18 16:00 | |
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As BBC Russia reported, Rosfinmonitoring, known by its English name the Federal Financial Monitoring Service, has ordered a specific analytical tool that will give the agency the capability to track crypto transactions, focusing on the Bitcoin network.
2018-8-31 13:49 | |
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The Federal Financial Monitoring Service of Russia (Rosfinmonitoring) has commissioned an analytical tool for monitoring cryptocurrency transactions. The system will particularly focus on bitcoin, as reported by BBC’s Russian service.
2018-8-31 04:00 | |
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The Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) is seeking to develop an analytical tool for tracking cryptocurrency transactions, specifically Bitcoin. BBC Russia reports that Russian authorities will attempt to use the new tracking system to detect cases of financial fraud and terrorist financing.
2018-8-30 20:09 | |
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There was a great interest for cryptocurrency investment in 2018 after many international media organizations like BBC and CNN were given an up to date analysis of it’s performance when Bitcoin hit the moon towards the end of last year.
2018-7-26 14:14 | |
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