2019-12-14 22:15 |
Bottle Pay is shutting down, citing the EU's new AML rules, which could compel crypto wallet providers to collect KYC info from users starting next month. origin »
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is coming down on Equifax Inc with the strength of an angry kitten. The credit bureau is reportedly expected to pay around $650 million after they exposed the private information of more than 145 million customers in the summer of 2017.
2019-7-21 04:45 | |
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While the world is looking at Facebook’s Libra and its recent senate hearing, France is knuckling down and is set to approve the first wave of cryptocurrency businesses under new legislation. Under the rules, cryptocurrency-related firms will voluntarily abide by a regulatory framework that requires them to pay tax, provide consumer protection, and meet capital requirements, Reuters reports.
2019-7-17 11:21 | |
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Ripple (XRP) is down 20. 8 percent Spain’s Santander expanding; opens a UK and Poland payment corridor Banco Santander is opening a new corridor from the UK to Poland via its One Pay FX app. Efficient, attention is back to Ripple, which is under pressure to see more of its clients adopt xRapid.
2019-7-15 20:00 | |
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Officials in Lake City, Florida, paid $500,000 worth of bitcoin to hackers who had brought down the city's computer system for two weeks. Lake City is the second Florida town in as many weeks to pay a bitcoin ransom as a result of a ransomware attack.
2019-6-27 22:16 | |
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By CCN Markets: Crypto unicorn Circle is shutting down its Circle Pay app in July to focus on stablecoins and developing new wallet services. The parent company of crypto exchange Poloniex made the surprise announcement on its website on June 13.
2019-6-14 17:02 | |
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By CCN Markets: The IRS will soon hunt down bitcoin users who don’t pay taxes by criminally prosecuting them en masse. That’s the prediction of IRS tax investigator Gary Alford, who says the agency is ready to clamp down on crypto tax evaders.
2019-6-14 15:51 | |
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Circle Pay, Circle’s Mobile App, To Be Shut Down This September Circle has made an announcement that saddened some of its users today. Circle Pay, the mobile app of the brand, is ready to be discontinued.
2019-6-14 00:52 | |
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Circle Pay, an early flagship product for Circle, is being shut down as the company focuses on its USDC stablecoin.
2019-6-14 22:25 | |
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Circle is shutting down Circle Pay, a fiat money sending service with a social messaging component
2019-6-14 22:24 | |
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Remember when it was revealed in January that Facebook used to pay teens and gather mobile app usage data from them through an app? Well, the company shut that program down after a huge backlash, but the app’s sorta making a comeback.
2019-6-12 08:33 | |
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By CCN: Total costs from the crypto ransom attack last month on Baltimore’s networks is likely to exceed $18 million. According to Ars Technica, this will include $10 million to fund the full recovery of the IT infrastructure.
2019-6-6 17:40 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Vincent He. Although China has shut down bitcoin trading platforms and deemed them illegal, its attitude toward bitcoin mining is still ambiguous.
2019-5-31 20:14 | |
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By CCN: U. S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is the poster child for the “Get Off My Lawn” cranky old man. He’s also a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist as well as a hypocrite and has no problem spreading lies to push his own agenda.
2019-5-23 05:45 | |
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Nestled in the exhibition room at this year’s Consensus conference, the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had a message for conference goers as they weaved in and out of booths representing various projects and startups in the space: “Be on the lookout for virtual currency fraud” and if you see it, let us know.
2019-5-17 19:00 | |
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By CCN: Most of the Baltimore City’s government systems have been locked down since May 7th as a result of the “Robbinhood” ransomware attack. The successful crypto locking has forced the city to go “manual” in most aspects of its daily business and has affected several areas of life.
2019-5-16 08:27 | |
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By CCN: Amazon is willing to pay its employees as much as $10,000 along with three months’ worth of compensation if they quit their jobs to launch delivery startups, according to The Wall Street Journal.
2019-5-15 20:45 | |
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In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin.
2019-5-8 20:07 | |
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By CCN. com: CCN sat down recently with one of crypto’s biggest lending firms to hear insights into the emerging crypto-lending industry. Antoni Trenchev, co-founder of Nexo, discussed the millennial mindset when borrowing, as well as upcoming trends in his field.
2019-5-6 12:09 | |
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Today, May 2, 2019, marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 18. 0, the 18th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakomoto almost 10 years ago, and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2019-5-3 16:02 | |
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Gone are the days when iPhones used to be the center stage of Apple’s quarterly results. Make no mistake, it is still the biggest money maker for the company, but the word “iPhone” appears just once in the Q2 earnings press release, as if it’s a mere afterthought.
2019-5-1 11:34 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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There is no stopping Amazon from taking over the world. The retail behemoth had a blockbuster first quarter in 2019 with revenues of $59. 7 billion and $3. 6 billion in net income, an all-time record and more than twice what it was making a year ago.
2019-4-26 11:50 | |
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Andrei Poliakov is the CEO and co-founder of Coinberry, one of Canada’s premier digital currency platforms. His company is the first in Canada to partner with a government municipality.
2019-4-23 17:42 | |
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By CCN: President Donald Trump’s Justice Department recently recommended that a federal appeals court strike down all of Obamacare. A petition has been filed with the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
2019-4-21 01:30 | |
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Before there was WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or WeChat, there was BlackBerry Messenger. Launched in August of 2005, BBM was the first popular mobile chat to pull people away from text messages or desktop clients.
2019-4-19 03:53 | |
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Ripple (XRP) upside headwinds, down 7. 7 percent XRP based ETP launched European investors are set to gain access to XRP through a controlled manner as Nordic Growth Market (NGM) launches LTC and XRP-based ETPs.
2019-4-4 22:00 | |
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Jamie Dimon has doubled down on his calls for the rich to pay more in income taxes. The JPMorgan CEO has long been a supporter of a more progressive taxation system, and his views have only been sharpened by the recent Trump tax breaks which favored the rich.
2019-4-4 20:00 | |
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AJ is a British bitcoin miner who loves privacy and hates KYC. When he needs cash to pay his bills, he meets bitcoin buyers in person. EZ is a full-time bitcoin trader who spends his days driving from city to city buying and selling BTC.
2019-4-3 09:33 | |
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Cybersecurity has long battled against ransomware. Scammers that use general hacking are a lower level of threat, but the use of ransomware puts computers at risk of being completely shut down. This kind of software being integrated into a network has the power to completely ruin a system, and LockerGoga is taking full advantage. LockerGoga […]
2019-3-27 01:58 | |
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It’s always nice when something a bit overpriced becomes… well… cheap. Take the Samsung Chromebook 3, for example. Would I pay $399 for this? Absolutely not. But drop that price down to $185, and I’ll start throwing wads of cash in your face so fast, you’ll think you’ve got a new job as an exotic dancer.
2019-3-22 15:47 | |
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Google Pay (earlier named Tez) has recently rolled out the ability to book train tickets in India straight from the app – both on iOS and Android. The money will be deducted directly from your bank account, so you won’t need any additional apps for train booking.
2019-3-19 11:37 | |
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What Is TenX? TenX (PAY) launched in 2015 with the promise of a digital wallet and physical card letting users spend cryptocurrencies to pay for goods and services. Co-Founder and President Julian Hosp stepped down on January 9, 2019, and was replaced by CEO Toby Hoenisch after the team of 70 (with two heads) failed […] The post What Is TenX? Introduction to PAY Token appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-3-17 14:38 | |
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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is targeting users of Bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto assets in its latest series of audits — starting with a 13-page questionnaire. Time for Bitcoin Users in Canada to Pay Their Taxes According to an article in Forbes yesterday, Bitcoin researcher and writer Kyle Torpey revealed that the CRA is cracking down on Bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto-asset users in Canada.
2019-3-8 05:00 | |
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Developer Proposes A New EIP To Save 90% Of Ethereum Transaction Costs Every transaction on the second-largest blockchain Ethereum has some cost attached to it. One must pay for doing anything say sending tokens, ETH or interacting with a contract on this blockchain.
2019-3-5 22:29 | |
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In the consumer world, personal data has been used as a “payment” for services, whether that be a Facebook account or a grocery discount or a loyalty rewards program. If you take the Facebook example, consumers “pay” for the service by supplying data which in turn makes the company money through ads that rely on this data.
2019-3-2 16:30 | |
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There’s an ongoing legal battle between Charlie Shrem and the Winklevoss brothers, which all started when Shrem was still new to the crypto industry. Winklevoss Capital, run by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, invested in BitInstant, which was the first startup of Shrem’s.
2019-2-8 18:07 | |
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Lightning Network is only a few seconds slower than the best (centralized) digital payment solutions on the market such as Apple Pay, and is actually “days faster” when it comes to onboarding merchants, according to researcher JP Thor.
2019-2-8 15:00 | |
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I had the opportunity to participate on a legal panel with David Silver at the Unconfiscatable: Bitcoin Not Blockchain Conference put on by Tone Vays in Las Vegas.
2019-2-7 20:39 | |
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An Australian Bitcoin and crypto exchange called myCryptoWallet, which was launched in 2017, has recently sent a very worrying email for its users: the National Australia Bank (NAB) has decided to shut down the accounts of the company.
2019-1-23 06:34 | |
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This is the fifth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 , onDay 4 and on Day 5.
2019-1-23 01:05 | |
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U. S. Government Shutdown & Crypto Twenty-eight days ago, the entirety of the U. S. government partially shut down. Negotiations between the Democrats and Republican incumbents have yet to procure results, and hundreds of thousands, if not millions of federal workers have had to provide governmental services without pay.
2019-1-20 00:12 | |
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TenX (PAY) made a surprise surge in end of the week trading, reversing the deep decline which began last December. At the end of Tuesday, PAY tokens were changing hands at approximately $0. 17. Prices began to increase throughout Wednesday, and following a brief plateau the trend accelerated on Friday.
2019-1-19 21:21 | |
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This is the second instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him on Day 1 here. I woke up on Christian’s couch stiff-necked and cotton-mouthed.
2019-1-16 22:54 | |
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Julian Hosp, president and founder of TenX blockchain debit card project, was previously accused of many nefarious things. While most people pointed out his arrogant behavior and dismissal of criticism regarding his current project, a part of the community suggested Hosp was known for taking part in suspicious activities even before creating TenX.
2019-1-9 13:06 | |
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In Thursday’s installment of The Daily, we report on a highly anticipated stablecoin project that’s failed before it’s even launched, and explore the strangely centralized world of crypto Twitter.
2018-12-13 14:50 | |
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When the crypto chips are down companies often seek alternative methods of generating income. Gaming equipment giant Razer wants to pay gamers to mine crypto using their graphics cards. The new crypto rewards program is called ‘Razer SoftMiner’, and it enables users to put their GPUs to work mining “Silver” which according to the firm […] The post Gaming Firm Wants to Pay Players to Mine Cryptocurrency appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-12-13 10:34 | |
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At the December 7, 2018, TenX Summit, a group of developers showcased an industry first: an atomic swap between a non-native asset, TenX’s PAY token, and a native asset, bitcoin.
2018-12-13 21:50 | |
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At the December 7, 2018, TenX Summit, a group of developers showcased an industry first: an atomic swap on the Lightning Network between a non-native asset, TenX’s PAY token, and a native asset, bitcoin.
2018-12-13 21:50 | |
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Coin2Shop analysts have published data about the number of buyers who use BTC and ETH to pay for goods in online shops has increased. And if in August the number of users of the company’s plug-in did not exceed 400 accounts, and the number of purchases for cryptocurrency was almost half less – 231 transactions […] The post Bitcoin going down, purchases for Bitcoin – grows appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-12-5 10:45 | |
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A decade-long legal battle over a lost Bitcoin fortune has ended in disappointment for James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, Wales. A Cardiff High Court has dismissed Howells’ lawsuit against Newport City Council, according to the BBC, refusing him…
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UniSat warns users of a malicious Bitcoin wallet hosted on Apple’s app store as BTC exchanged hands 5% below the asset’s all-time high.
Available data from Glassnode shows that around 75% of wallets holding Bitcoin (BTC) are in profit despite the value of the flagship asset falling a long way from its ATH to below the $40k mark recently.