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The eccentric centibillionaire has been appointed fake chairman of Dogecoin, and two Shiba Inu dogs have received the other two top fake DOGE positions origin »
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Every argument has two sides to it and the clash of the proponents and opponents paves way to the emergence of distinct views which end up becoming ideologies. The Bitcoin debate has been ongoing for The post NOT 'Banking on Bitcoin'? Why these CEOs think it's like 'making fake money' appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-6-7 06:30 | |
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According to reports from local news outlets, a Chinese gang of 18 suspects was recently detained by the police authorities of Istanbul on account of kidnapping and operating a crypto scam scheme. The gang which held its operations in Silivri in the Province of Istanbul, Turkey, attracted 101 people including two Turkmens, 95 Chinese nationals, […]
2021-3-15 15:33 | |
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Cybersecurity analysts disclosed two attacks against one of the most secure Bitcoin (BTC) wallets ever, Electrum
2021-3-6 17:13 | |
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Принадлежащая братьям Уинклвоссам криптовалютная биржа Gemini предупредила пользователей о двух поддельных аккаунтах компании на видеохостинге YouTube. 1/3 📢 Two Youtube accounts were taken over by a hacker that converted YouTube accounts to look like fake Gemini accounts, using our brand name and our logo.
2020-12-8 18:11 | |
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Crypto-hunting hackers have stolen more than $22 million from the users of Electrum, a popular Bitcoin wallet, in the past two years using a “simple technique” involving fake updates, as per a ZDNet report Monday.
2020-10-14 10:11 | |
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Reports in the past few weeks detail that bad actors are targeting two privacy coin projects, Monero and Zcash, adding to concerns about the growing rate of security incidents involving blockchain networks.
2020-9-5 22:30 | |
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The U. S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged two Maryland based companies over a Ponzi scheme that allegedly defrauded approximately 1,200 investors, of more than $27 million by promising The post U.
2020-8-29 22:03 | |
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A number of university researchers published a study that demystifies the “fake deposit vulnerability” in Ethereum-based smart contracts. The findings show that over 7,000 tokens worth more than $1 billion built on top of Ethereum are vulnerable to two types of attacks that exploit smart contracts.
2020-8-28 03:00 | |
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It appears that there are a fair few of malicious Chrome extensions out there. Albeit Google removed two of them, a new fake offering claiming to be a Ledger product has shown up. Ledger is one of the most popular hardware wallet manufacturers in the world.
2020-1-3 01:30 | |
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The XRP community has been taken for a ride, so to speak, by Reddit user Bearableguy. The user created a lengthy ‘treasure map’, complete with clues and puzzles. Followers hoped that the final data points would reveal insider information about Ripple.
2019-12-30 15:34 | |
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Former Coinbase executive and angel investor, Balaji S. Srinivasan, has taken issue with fake news stories emerging within the tech industry and several reports that completely contradict common industry knowledge.
2019-11-14 13:15 | |
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Researchers from cybersecurity firm ESET have uncovered a malicious version of the Tor browser – the program used to access the dark web – and it’s been stealing user‘s Bitcoin. According to ESET, the bad actors were able to steal more than $40,000 worth of Bitcoin.
2019-10-18 14:04 | |
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The Texas State Securities Board announced on Wednesday that it had completed the second regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency services. The regulator’s Enforcement Division required two allegedly fake crypto firms to cease their activities.
2019-10-18 22:34 | |
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Mark Alex Simon, the ring leader of a Bitcoin-fuelled fake ID ring, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison, the Toledo Blade reports. The Ohio resident was sentenced by US District Court Judge Jeffrey Helmick on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges in June.
2019-10-4 14:52 | |
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Recommended pre-reading: https://ethresear. ch/t/minimal-anti-collusion-infrastructure/5413 Alice slowly walks down the old, dusty stairs of the building into the basement. She thinks wistfully of the old days, when quadratic-voting in the World Collective Market was a much simpler process of linking her public key to a twitter account and opening up metamask to start firing off votes.
2019-10-2 04:03 | |
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The police enforcement from Portugal has recently disrupted a counterfeit money network that operated on the dark web. The criminals used to sell fake cash notes in exchange for Bitcoin and other cryptos.
2019-9-10 02:43 | |
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Ah, AirPods. If you’ve been in a city at any point in the past two years you’ll have seen them slammed deep into the ears of, well, everyone. Apple’s earbuds have been so successful they’ve moved beyond being only a music accessory, instead morphing into a fashion statement in themselves.
2019-9-3 11:48 | |
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With political and economic tensions escalating, investments in safe haven assets such as gold are on the rise. The commodity has often been compared to Bitcoin, but a recent outbreak of fake bars clearly illustrates the glaring differences in the two asset classes.
2019-8-28 14:30 | |
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US watchdogs have got hold of two Canadians for a betrayal of $233,220 worth BTC with a fake HitBTC twitter account. Scammers Pretended to be Customer Service Reps of HitBTC Two citizens of surrey, a city of British Colombia, ostensibly stole 23.
2019-8-24 23:22 | |
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Instagram announced today it’ll let you flag posts for false content.
2019-8-16 12:24 | |
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has indicted a Pennsylvanian man for allegedly defrauding $7 million from prospective Bitcoin investors through an effectively fake “escrow” service.
2019-7-26 15:23 | |
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A recently published Forbes report found that CoinMarketCap continues to list exchanges that are known for providing fake crypto trading volume. Does this mean CoinMarketCap has given up on providing reliable data to investors? Fake Volume and Wash Trading Persist In early 2019 two separate research reports from Bitwise Asset Management and Alameda Research found that 65% to 95% of all reported cryptocurrency trading volume is manipulated or completely false.
2019-7-25 00:00 | |
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In a development in Texas, the federal court has fined two convicts a total of $360,000 USD in respect to solicitation of funds from the public over a fraudulent scheme. The amount raised from the public investors since January 2017 is yet to be revealed.
2019-7-12 00:50 | |
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It can be hard to tell whether a picture is real. Consider, as the participants in our recent research did, these two images and see whether you think neither, either or both of them has been doctored.
2019-7-2 20:25 | |
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By CCN Markets: A vulnerability allowing for remote code execution (unauthorized use) in Firefox was exploited against Coinbase employees this past week. The vulnerability enabled an attacker to crash the browser and execute code, including installing a trojan horse backdoor.
2019-6-24 12:36 | |
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Ernst and Young, the audit giant, the court-appointed third-party monitor and now the bankruptcy trustee of the QuadrigaCX proceedings, released its fifth report on the QuadrigaCX episode. Part 1 of AMBCrypto’s coverage can be found here.
2019-6-20 18:00 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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Security researchers have uncovered a knock-off cryptocurrency trading website designed to steal the funds of unwitting victims. Cybercriminals have created a website that imitates the Cryptohopper cryptocurrency trading platform to distribute malware that could steal personal information, hijack your clipboard, and crypto-jack your system, Bleeping Computer reports.
2019-6-6 16:16 | |
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It takes a long time for a trend to reverse. There can be bull traps and fake outs as we witnessed during 2018 when things were on a downward slope. One long term technical indicator has just turned green and the last time it did so, a two year up trend followed.
2019-5-28 11:30 | |
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Bitcoin [BTC] and the larger cryptocurrency market trading came to a standstill in March, when Bitwise Asset Management released their report which detailed that 95 percent of the exchanges fake their volume.
2019-5-25 09:31 | |
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The recent cryptocurrency market surge has attracted a lot of attention. Not just because people are making good money, but also because criminals smell new opportunities to scam users. A new report by ESET confirms at least two fake cryptocurrency wallets were available for download on the Google Play Store.
2019-5-25 23:00 | |
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Facebook has removed as many accounts as it has users in the first three months of this year according to a recent report by the social networking giant. “Our detection...
2019-5-25 20:02 | |
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Two fake cryptocurrency apps are present on the Google Play store, masquerading as “Coin Wallet” and as “Trezor Mobile… The post 2 Fake Cryptocurrency Apps at Google Store You Should Watch Out For appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-24 15:01 | |
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An unfortunate consequence of Bitcoin’s price revival in recent weeks is the resurgence of cryptocurrency malware on Google Play. ESET security researchers, have verified that there were at least two apps on Google Play specifically designed to steal users’ coins.
2019-5-23 13:25 | |
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A man from Apeldoorn, Netherlands has been arrested for fraud and money laundering after convincing over 100 people to invest a total of $26 million in fictitious Bitcoin mining rigs. The 33-year-old named as Berry van M.
2019-5-21 15:59 | |
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By CCN: An Australian woman who faked cancer and duped people into buying her products, Belle Gibson, may have used the proceeds of her fraudulent scheme to trade crypto among other assets. This emerged after she appeared in court over her failure to pay a $285,000 (AUD$410,000) fine, per The Guardian.
2019-5-15 17:02 | |
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Police have busted two prolific dark web drug markets in a global sting, seizing six-figure amounts of Bitcoin and Monero cryptocurrency, as well as loads of narcotics. “[The Wall Street Market] was the world’s second largest dark web market, enabling the trade in drugs (including cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines), stolen data, fake documents and malicious software,” said Europol.
2019-5-3 16:21 | |
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Two Nigerian nationals have been indicted in the U.S. for wire fraud and money laundering relating to a fake bitcoin investment scheme.
2019-4-26 12:00 | |
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By CCN: IPO season is now in full swing, and yet another unicorn is ready to come to market. Beyond Meat, the vegan food manufacturer that wants to make fake beef mainstream, hopes to raise $183 million at a $1.
2019-4-23 20:02 | |
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For some time now, there have been lots and lots of talk about the real and fake trading volumes concerning crypto exchanges. Of the people that have said a word or two about the issue, the recent tweet by Binance CEO seems to have hit a nerve.
2019-4-7 11:00 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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Following on from accusations of fake bitcoin trading volume, crypto data specialists Messari are fighting back in a bid to re-establish industry integrity. They have announced the launch of two unique metrics to help crypto investors make better-informed decisions.
2019-4-3 15:37 | |
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Bitcoin Core developer Luke-jr has delivered an April Fools Day joke for Bitcoin users, lobbying for a market-wide minimum Bitcoin price of $50,000. Fighting ‘Unreasonably Low Prices’ In what will likely become one of the more popular gags for this year’s event, which traditionally sees crypto-related media and social media flooded with industry-specific fake news, Luke-jr decided current Bitcoin price levels must end.
2019-4-1 19:00 | |
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Latest Binance Coin (BNB) News After weeks of uncertainty, we have two resounding facts. One is that most crypto exchanges are experts at faking volumes, all for profits but at the detriment of investors and traders.
2019-3-29 17:00 | |
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TAGZ is Australia’s first fully licensed and regulated Dual Gateway Exchange based in Australia and registered with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). Our focus is to protect our users by actively monitoring trading activity on our platform and saying goodbye to flash crashes, pump & dumps, spoofing, fake volume aswell as securing against possible data security breaches.
2019-3-28 10:35 | |
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Hands up, anyone who is surprised that a little-known crypto exchange that apparently had the largest bitcoin trading volume on CoinMarketCap has been exposed as a wash trading scam platform. In the world of crypto where apparently everyone made it to Lamboland during the 2017 bull run, and absolutely everybody knew when to sell, no one will admit that they have been played.
2019-3-24 19:54 | |
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LBank and Bit-Z both held the top position in exchanges by adjusted volume on CoinMarketCap today, but research suggests their volume is fake
2019-3-22 19:17 | |
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Watch out! Wasabi, the popular anonymizing Bitcoin wallet, has been been duped in an apparent bid to steal your Bitcoin — and the ruse comes complete with an entirely phony website. Wasabi’s co-founder, nopara73, shared the discovery this morning: “The first malware that pretends to be Wasabi […].
2019-3-21 14:34 | |
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US President Donald Trump tweeted Monday that the US GDP grew at the fastest pace since 2005. Is the president’s claim another economic victory that can be put in the record books, or is it merely a case of fake news? GDP growth during the four quarters of 2018 was the fastest since 2005.
2019-3-20 19:11 | |
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