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Changpeng Zhou is crypto’s biggest billionaire, Bitfarms purchased more than $43M worth of BTC and PayPal plans a stablecoin project. origin »
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Justin Sun, the 33-year-old software engineer, has slowly built a crypto empire that has pushed his net worth to over $1. 3 billion. This net worth makes him one of the richest people in the crypto industry.
2023-12-7 03:02 | |
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According to Spot On Chain data, the firms sent $10 million worth of crypto to a single wallet address, which then deposited the funds to Binance and Coinbase.
2023-10-25 22:34 | |
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The hacker accumulated as much as $90 million worth of crypto from wallets with weak private keys during a six-year thieving spree.
2023-1-26 08:39 | |
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Over the year, the roles that crypto plays in everyday lives have become more prominent, more so with the last bull market. Given this, it is natural that the space, currently worth hundreds of billions of dollars, is spilling into other aspects such as politics.
2022-11-7 20:00 | |
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Turkish prosecutors confiscated $40 million worth of crypto and arrested 35 people scattered in eight cities on October 20 for running an illegal crypto betting platform, as reported by local news outlets.
2022-10-21 22:26 | |
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The Mt. Gox trustee has disclosed some more details on the company's rehabilitation process and confirmed the sale of over $230 million worth of crypto. The post Mt. Gox Trustee Sold Over $230M Worth of Crypto, the Entire Market Corrects appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-9-27 15:39 | |
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Bitcoin has finally gone mainstream, in the weirdest of ways. It’s now officially a word in Scrabble™ and it’s worth an impressive 11 points – although, of course, playing the bingo directly from the center tile would net you an extra fifty.
2018-9-26 00:12 | |
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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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A man known as “Tokyo Whale,” for the enormous amount of bitcoin he controls, confirms he unloaded another big chunk of it earlier this year. Nobuaki Kobayashi, the trustee of now-defunct Tokyo exchange Mt.
2018-9-25 19:54 | |
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Andreessen Horowitz’s specialized cryptocurrency and blockchain fund a16z crypto has purchased six percent of MakerDAO’s total MKR token supply for $15 million, the company announced in a September 24 press release.
2018-9-25 21:15 | |
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The Seoul Southern District Public Prosecutors’ Office has reportedly indicted two executives of South Korean crypto exchange Coinnest for accepting a bribe in exchange for listing a cryptocurrency.
2018-9-24 19:10 | |
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After leaving his position as an executive at Steven Cohen’s Point72 hedge fund, Travis Kling decided to start his own crypto-focused fund. This was a big and bullish announcement back then, but it still wasn’t enough to save the crypto market, which crashed only a month later.
2018-9-23 16:00 | |
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Altcoins may come and go; hacks may challenge exchanges; mainstream financial advisors might not get it — but even in the face of a protocol bug, Bitcoin perseveres and develops.
2018-9-22 19:33 | |
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Charlie claims that LTC’s price has been deliberately been stunted, adding that the crypto’s network has been known to be perfect – having worked for 7 cool years without a hitch and handling close to $200 million worth of transactions on a daily basis.
2018-9-22 12:19 | |
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When it seems things couldn’t get worse during the cryptocurrency bearish market, the community woke up to a nasty shock on September 17, 2018. A Japanese exchange Zaif reported that it was the victim of a breach which led to a loss of cryptocurrencies worth $60 million.
2018-9-22 01:00 | |
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The entry of cryptocurrencies into the global economic setting has pretty much made some people millionaires – and even billionaires. People who jumped in the crypto business during the early days of Bitcoin have had a lot to smile about.
2018-9-21 17:33 | |
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XRP is now the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, as its value surpassed that of Ether (ETH) today. At around 15:00 GMT on Friday, the market cap for XRP became worth more than that of ETH, according to CoinMarketCap.
2018-9-21 17:03 | |
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We’re not suggesting that Ethereum will be crushed by it’s rivals, however it is worth thinking about. In a market that allows it, it’s not unrealistic to imagine Ethereum being knocked off it’s podium by one of it’s many competitors.
2018-9-21 12:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency–The National Police Agency of Japan has released troubling news on the state of cryptocurrency-related thievery. Despite growing adoption and awareness for the industry throughout 2018, thereby leading to an improvement in security for user funds, the Japanese organization reports crypto-related thefts have cost users more than half a billion dollars.
2018-9-21 04:42 | |
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Another cryptocurrency heist has shaken Japan. This time, 6. 7 billion yen ($60 million USD) worth of company and user funds have vanished from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange platform Zaif.
2018-9-21 19:30 | |
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Breaking news out of Japan today comes as yet another cryptocurrency exchange is hacked, seeing around $60 million worth of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and MonaCoin lifted from Zaif, a Japanese based cryptocurrency exchange.
2018-9-20 16:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Zaif announced on Thursday that a recent hack has resulted in the loss of 5,966 bitcoins (BTC) and a total of $60 million USD worth of bitcoins, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and MonaCoin (MONA).
2018-9-20 14:00 | |
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The continuous news of hacking of cryptocurrency exchanges has grown this year when compared to previous years in the cryptocurrency industry. It started with Coincheck a cryptocurrency exchange in Japan where about $500 million worth of NEM token was stolen and now another cryptocurrency exchange in Japan, Zaif exchange in the news after a hack […] The post Japan’s Zaif Crypto Exchange loses about $59.7 Million in Fresh Hack appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-9-20 13:43 | |
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The hacked cryptocurrency exchange has immediately suspended all deposits and withdrawals while filing a criminal case with the local investigative authorities. The post Japanese Crypto Exchange Zaif Falls Victim to Hack, Loses $60 Million Worth Bitcoins appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-9-20 11:12 | |
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Yet another Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked, losing about $60 million worth of cryptocurrency, including 6,000 bitcoins.
2018-9-20 04:25 | |
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Yet another Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked, losing about $60 million worth of cryptocurrency, including 6,000 bitcoins.
2018-9-21 04:25 | |
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Suppose you worked for a new startup which seeks to launch a promising but little-understood technology. Suppose further that, after several rounds of funding, financial experts assessed your company’s accounts and discovered that the product isn’t worth the cost of making it.
2018-9-19 21:10 | |
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A prominent eSports gamer took to YouTube to reveal to his audience how “someone stole $200,000” worth of cryptocurrency in an apparent sim-swap hacking incident – a new growing cybercrime trend that appears to focus on cryptocurrency investors.
2018-9-19 20:30 | |
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Thieves have fabricated 1 billion EOS based tokens, ironically also named EOS, in order to purchase a number of tokens from Newdex, a decentralised exchange. Since the EOS tokens we’re fake and have no value, the hackers managed to lift around $58,000.
2018-9-18 16:30 | |
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The U. S. FBI and law enforcement in South Korea and Japan have arrested two people in connection to phishing scam that stole $800,000 worth of Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) tokens in a joint operation reported last week.
2018-9-17 20:00 | |
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A Texas man, formerly a citizen of Somer, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for his involvement in a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme worth $9 million. Homero Joshua Garza, the 33-year-old convict, will be put under three years of supervised release after his jail term ends.
2018-9-15 07:00 | |
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Stablecoins are the ‘in’ thing at the moment. Prices have been on an almost continuous downward trend since the start of the year, with the market now worth less than a quarter of what it was back in January.
2018-9-15 20:16 | |
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Ripple Labs and XRP II LLC have reached an agreement with the R3 blockchain after a long and stretched out lawsuit across the past year over 5 billion token of XRP (worth around $0. 0085 each). The idea of such a huge sum of XRP was offered to R3 at such a massive discount shows the centralised nature of the business.
2018-9-13 13:00 | |
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Volatility is probably the second-biggest barrier to cryptocurrency adoption. Appreciation is an even bigger obstacle; no one’s going to spend a cryptocurrency if they think it’s going to be worth more tomorrow, and consequently the only places where crypto is regularly used are those where fiat is even more volatile.
2018-9-12 21:37 | |
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Have initial coin offerings (ICOs) cashed out their Ethereum tokens (CRYPTO: ETH) in order to realize gains from last December and avoid this year’s bear market? You might think so but guess again.
2018-9-12 15:30 | |
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Index funds have more than proven their worth as a preferred option for those with an eye on retirement. But now there is conversation about the value of adding bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to this investment mix.
2018-9-11 16:58 | |
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The Pigzbe Wallet Hits $7. 2 Million in Funding for ICO Pigzbe, which is a digital ‘piggy-wallet’ that runs on a native crypto coin called the Wollo, recently, hit $7. 2 million in total funding through an ICO.
2018-9-9 06:39 | |
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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 total crypto market capitalization has lost a massive $38 Billion since last week Wednesday, the 5th of September. Back then, the crypto community was gearing up for a resurgence of Bitcoin to levels of above $7,500 as the total crypto market capitalization stood at $239 Billion.
2018-9-7 14:26 | |
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A property-backed token, possibly representing the world’s largest area yet, will soon come to fruition in Australia, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Crypto a Saving Grace Fifteen kilometers off the coast of Queensland, the abandoned Great Keppel Island was initially envisioned as a tourist destination for locals and expats alike before fading into oblivion.
2018-9-5 14:00 | |
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The cryptosphere is agog with rumors about a bitcoin whale – someone controlling a significant amount of bitcoin – preparing to dump approximately $1 billion worth of bitcoin on the market.
2018-9-5 07:00 | |
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When wallet accounts holding large sums of cryptocurrency start getting active out of the blue, crypto markets should brace themselves for impact. Recently, a meteor shower of 111,114 Bitcoins from a dormant wallet was witnessed.
2018-9-4 17:34 | |
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There has been an increase in hacking operations in recent times targeted majorly as cryptocurrency exchanges since they have a good investment in the cryptocurrencies and crypto tokens listed in their site.
2018-9-5 15:44 | |
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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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Bittrex is all set to delist Bitcoin Gold (BTG) thanks to a series of hacks that total more than $20 million in stolen funds. Bitcoin Gold is a hard fork of Bitcoin and it has gone through the wars of late.
2018-9-4 00:54 | |
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The Mt. Gox disgrace which took place in 2014 saw the advent of thefts and hacks, which have characterized a number of crypto exchanges, with the most recent occurring early this year. In this particular scandal, approximately $500 million worth of clients’ virtual assets disappeared from Coincheck, a Japan based crypto exchange. Apart from these […]
2018-9-2 12:15 | |
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Blockchain technology-based businesses and ventures continue to grow. Every day new projects appear on the market, showing the potential that DLTs have to promote economic activity without any distinctions.
2018-8-30 20:21 | |
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‘Bitcoin is dying’ say the haters. Well actually, it’s not. As a matter of fact, data now suggests that Bitcoin transaction value has finally surpassed that of PayPal’s, closing in on Visa. Let’s face it though, as a world leading transaction facilitator, Visa will take some beating.
2018-8-30 16:30 | |
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CheapAir, the online travel agency specialising in finding cheap air fares and allowing users to pay in cryptocurrencies has fallen victim of a Bitcoin ransom attack, demanding that the service pay up around $10,000.
2018-8-29 16:00 | |
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By accepting crypto for taxes and other local municipal payments, Detroit would become the largest city in the United States to accept crypto for payments. The program is scheduled to start in the middle of 2025, according to Detroit’s local officials.
Detroiters will soon be able to pay their taxes and other city fees with crypto through PayPal, according to a Thursday announcement from Detroit’s Office of the Treasury.
В Комиссии по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC) заявили, что один из крупнейших в мире депозитарных банков Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BNY Mellon) получил одобрение на хранение биткоина, эфира и других цифровых активов.
Платежный гигант PayPal открыл для корпоративных клиентов в США возможность покупки, хранения и продажи криптовалют напрямую со своего бизнес-счета. Об этом говорится в сообщении компании.
PayPal is set to allow U.S. merchants to purchase, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly through their PayPal business accounts. PayPal announced this move as part of its strategy to increase cryptocurrency’s role in everyday transactions for millions of businesses in…
Tether hired a government-affairs veteran from PayPal and Chainalysis, Jesse Spiro, to head its own shop as the issuer of the leading {{USDT}} stablecoin has long been under a cloud of reported U.S. investigations.