2020-11-26 20:00 |
Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard is fixing a flaw that could trick users into sending bitcoin on the mainnet when they meant to use its testnet. origin »
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Bitcoin has set on a rally with the beginning of the last month of the quarter. The largest asset's price increased from $11,515 at midnight to $11,966. 84, until an hour back, which could be due to thThe post Bitcoin’s network health lost 7 points.
2020-9-2 23:00 | |
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A popular Indian YouTuber’s gaming channel got hacked and scammers attempted to use the old Bitcoin giveaway trick to lure people.
2020-7-27 22:00 | |
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Billionaires, politicians, and celebrities were victimized in a large-scale phishing campaign with the hackers defrauding people for over $100,000 in Bitcoin. Hackers used their access to trick people into participating...
2020-7-16 02:07 | |
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Institutions are increasingly getting interested in bitcoin, about a third of big asset managers currently own bitcoin, revealed a recent survey by Fidelity. Also, just last month, billionaire Paul Tudor Jones divulged that he has about 2% of his portfolio in bitcoin.
2020-6-29 17:31 | |
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A Canadian man falls into the trap of government impostors who made him send them Bitcoin via an ATM
2020-3-25 18:52 | |
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Payswap, from pseudonymous developer “ZmnSCPxj,” offers a simple-yet-effective trick to confuse blockchain analysis and obscure bitcoin transactions. The post How Payswap Can Confuse Blockchain Analysts, Benefiting Bitcoin Privacy for All appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-1-24 00:21 | |
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Moon Bitcoin is one of the very best trending website to earn free bitcoins. Everybody is keen to be aware of the trick of earning excellent cash flow and how to increase exactly what they currently have.
2020-1-23 10:07 | |
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Singaporean police were able to prevent a man from becoming a victim of a cryptocurrency-related love scam
2020-1-1 17:42 | |
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Virtually everybody knows what a dollar is, but not as many know about the SDR. The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Special Drawing Rights is an international, monetary reserve system created specifically to address limitations of gold and standard fiat currencies such as the USD.
2019-10-14 08:00 | |
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After countless of arguments and persuasive reasons as to why bitcoin should work, Nakamoto the inventor attracted a following, but not an ear. The radical crowed that had gathered refused... The post Did Vitalik Trick the Tricksters? appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-9-26 21:42 | |
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Dozens of countries all over the world have used the same trick called redenomination to hide how they have stolen their own citizens’ money through inflation or hyperinflation. The next nation to try this economic sleight of hand is the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
2019-8-6 22:30 | |
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What’s your party trick? Is it the way you pop open a beer bottle? The handstand on the dance floor? Or your smooth-talking skills? If you are a regulator however, your party trick is a full-on crackdown, while everyone is enjoying a bullish party.
2019-7-13 18:30 | |
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By CCN: The crypto newswire went berserk after a research firm published a blockbuster report revealing deep-pocketed “whales” had jumped into the BTC market at the end of 2018 to take advantage of the bitcoin price dump.
2019-6-8 16:00 | |
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Be Warned: Whales Will Trick You Into Selling And Then Sell Back To You At Hefty Costs Not long ago, the crypto market beat back the bears to make a daring emergence from a long crypto winter that had some people almost losing faith with the crypto space.
2019-6-6 21:35 | |
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Coinspeaker Dadiani Syndicate’s Client Wants to Acquire 25% of Bitcoin’s Supply: Marketing Trick?Digital currency investment firm Dadiani Syndicate has reportedly been approached by a wealthy client to buy as close to 25% of the bitcoin (BTC) supply as possible, Forbes reported.
2019-6-1 13:45 | |
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Electrum Bitcoin wallet users have lost 771 BTC (approximately $4 million) since late December 2018, in an ongoing series of targeted phishing attacks. According to research released by Malwarebytes Labs, fraudsters were able to trick unsuspecting users into downloading a malicious version of the wallet by exploiting a weakness in the software.
2019-4-16 18:02 | |
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Electrum servers are still under a sustained Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. The wallet developers announced the issue on April 7, 2018. In correspondence with Bitcoin Magazine, Electrum developer Thomas Voegtlin speculated that the attack may be a form of retaliation from a phishing attacker who has been targeting Electrum in recent weeks.
2019-4-11 21:47 | |
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Bitcoin’s first decentralized exchange to make use of the Lightning Network’s Atomic Swaps is now in beta. Sparkswap, an exchange with backing from Pantera Capital (which announced its ambitious mission to become the most decentralized bitcoin exchange on the market in August 2018), has now opened its beta to users.
2019-4-9 23:28 | |
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Electrum Bitcoin wallet users should ensure that they’re using the latest version and that it’s from an official source. If users find themselves urged to “update” by the client, they should know that there is no update mechanism within Electrum itself.
2019-4-8 20:03 | |
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The blockchain is gradually hitting the standard. After the 2013 Bitcoin publicity pursued by the MtGox implosion and almost two-year time of wretchedness with heaps of undertakings propelled and fizzled, cash contributed and lost, trick, hypothesis, and hacks, Blockchain is currently developed enough to move from the network advancement lab into genuine business applications.
2019-3-26 12:20 | |
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A cryptocurrency fan has issued a warning: scammers are posing as the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to fool you into giving up $10,000 worth of Bitcoin, so take notice. A Reddit post titled “CIA got me fam” displayed proof of a new bogus email campaign designed to trick potential victims into thinking they are subject of an international criminal investigation.
2019-3-19 18:24 | |
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There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data.
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
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Bitcoin users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot. ” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so.
2019-1-25 01:19 | |
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Redditors, in a humorous attempt to push up bitcoin prices, are trying to fool trading bots that scrape the forum for sentiment. And the results are hilarious. Reddit’s Crypto Conundrum The ritual started from a Redditor who proclaimed on Jan.
2019-1-25 22:02 | |
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Hackers seem to always find a way to trick consumers, but the use of false websites and networked computers make it possible for them infiltrate for mining profits. In a new hacking situation, scammers have programmed illegitimate BBC News websites to perform mining for Bitcoin rewards. This scam was found by researchers at the first […]
2019-1-17 00:27 | |
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Even though Bitcoin has been around for over 10 years now, cryptocurrency scams are still claiming many victims. It is somewhat uncanny how easy it can be to trick people into giving up their credentials or funds in exchange for services they might not even need.
2019-1-8 06:07 | |
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Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder.
2019-1-1 19:31 | |
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Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to.
2018-12-19 02:34 | |
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Scam artists have tried just about every trick in the book to relieve people of their Bitcoin in recent years. The latest effort is rather lacking in the sophistication department, however. A report in Bleeping Computer states that people have been receiving emails that are apparently from the owner of a dark web site offering.
2018-12-18 21:30 | |
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On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering.
2018-12-1 22:36 | |
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It appears Twitter has become so saturated with cryptocurrency scams that attackers are finally starting to target other platforms too – like Facebook. Unlike the standard Bitcoin giveaway scams on Twitter, the Facebook scam (as noticed by Hard Fork) is designed to trick users into giving up sensitive data, like their credit card information.
2018-11-28 17:48 | |
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Colorado Securities Commissioner Gerald Rome has issued a new batch of cease-and-desist orders against unregistered Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) operating in the state, taking the total number of signed orders against ICOs in Colorado to 18.
2018-11-22 19:23 | |
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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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After the recent hard fork upgrade of its protocol, Monero has seen its transaction fees shrink by approximately 97 percent, dropping from 60 cents to just 2 cents.
2018-10-23 22:09 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency court order issuing the stoppage of a recently planned initial coin offering (ICO) by Blockvest LLC and its founder Reginald Buddy Ringgold III, who falsely advertised that the token sale was approved by the SEC.
2018-10-12 01:12 | |
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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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Scammers conned $50,000 out of regular Australians using a blatantly obvious fake tax debt fraud. Multiple victims have been lured into paying off non-existent debt through Bitcoin ATMs. A Time-Tested Scam Scammers have managed to con upwards of $50,000 from Australian citizens, luring them in to pay off a non-existent debt in a classic fraud.
2018-10-6 08:00 | |
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Friday’s installment of our daily roundup investigates a weird mining trick that first surfaced on Bitcoin back in the day. It’s now being exploited on Ethereum. We also take a look at “Bitcoin populism” and consider the fate of crypto shills whose deleted tweets leave them no place to hide on an internet that never […] The post The Daily: Empty ETH Blocks, Bitcoin Populism, Crypto Flip-Floppers Exposed appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-10-5 13:20 | |
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Today marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 17. 0, the 17th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost 10 years ago and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2018-10-3 16:28 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-10-2 17:27 | |
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) confirmed the shutdown of several ICOs on the ground of fraudulent marketing strategies or other illegal practices. As identified by ASIC, a large number of fraudulent companies are looking to ICOs as the perfect way to trick people into crowdfunding projects.
2018-9-25 20:49 | |
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Weiss Ratings, a provider of market research and stock analysis on ETFs, mutual funds, cryptocurrency, banks, and insurance companies, made a bold move saying that Ethereum will overtake 50% of Bitcoin’s market share in the next 5 years.
2018-9-23 17:00 | |
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Russian cryptocurrency mining firm Coins Miner Investments, and Belize cryptocurrency wallet company Digital Bank were recently issued cease and desist orders by the Texas Securities Commissioner (TSC).
2018-9-21 12:49 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-18 19:50 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
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Malta’s Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, is the latest notable personality to be impersonated as part of a Bitcoin scam. In recent times, everyone from actors to company executives and even politicians has seen their images used to trick people into investing in fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes.
2018-8-28 22:57 | |
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The Jigsaw malware is back and it is ready to steal Bitcoin from consumers once again. Jigsaw is Back to Scare Bitcoin Users ZDNet recently reported that the “Jigsaw” ransomware has recently been revised by hackers to steal Bitcoin from unsuspecting users through a “simple-but-effective trick.
2018-7-21 02:49 | |
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As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name.
2018-7-13 17:16 | |
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Разработчики майнинг-пула BitPico доказали централизацию альткоина BCH в результате стресс-теста сети Bitcoin Cash. Всего в одном серверном шкафу расположены 98% отображаемых нод, как утверждает BitPico.
2018-7-13 11:17 | |
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Coinkite releases new version of Coldcard bitcoin hardware wallet - CryptoNinjas Coinkite, a provider of cryptocurrency security hardware, has now announced the launch of the Coinkite Coldcard Mk3, the third generation of its ultra-secure bitcoin hardware wallet.