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The group has offered more to purchase claims from creditors who lost money from the infamous $480 million hack
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A report published by cybersecurity organization Insikt Group claims internet use in North Korea has grown significantly in the past three years. The group cites a “300% increase in the volume of activity to and from North Korean networks since 2017,” and part of this activity involves monero (XMR) mining.
2020-2-13 11:10 | |
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Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group, is convinced that the coronavirus scare fueled the latest Bitcoin (BTC) rally
2020-2-3 17:01 | |
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The report from an Israeli organisation claims the group used bitcoin to avoid sanctions, offer a degree of anonymity to donors and enable cross-border money transfers.
2020-1-20 16:00 | |
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Dash, one of the world's top cryptocurrencies, was recently in the news after it recorded a gain of about 70% over 48 hours. At the time of writing, Dash was trading at $103.34. Formerly known as 'The post Dash Core Group's Taylor claims Libra won't launch in 2020 appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-18 15:00 | |
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Private equity and hedge fund manager Fortress Investment Group is redoubling its efforts to buy up claims from creditors of the hacked Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox
2019-12-20 16:15 | |
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New York-based investment firm Fortress Investment Group has issued a new letter to creditors of the long-collapsed exchange Mt. Gox, proposing to purchase Bitcoin claims at a lower price than previously offered.
2019-12-20 11:21 | |
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Established in 2018 by a group of former Goldman traders and Union Square employees, Tagomi is known for its brokerage services, having recently raised $28 million with venture capital funding with Pantera, Morgan Creek, and other firms.
2019-11-30 23:17 | |
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For quite some time now, there have been claims as to how Iran has state-funded hacking groups under its control. Those rumors will only be reinforced following a string of recent attacks against industrial control systems executed by APT33.
2019-11-24 06:00 | |
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Justin Sun, the co-founder of the Tron Foundation recently revealed that he had made investments into the crypto exchange Poloniex which was earlier owned by Circle group. The earlier Sun has refuted claims of any kind of investment interest in the exchange.
2019-11-18 19:27 | |
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As critics continue to cast doubt on a study that claims the price rally of 2017 was created by a lone whale, a report from a dedicated group of whale watchers evaluates the real impact of big traders.
2019-11-7 14:03 | |
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According to David Marcus, a board member at the Libra Association and head of the proposed Calibra digital wallet, the group is now ready to start addressing the long list of concerns global regulators have about the digital currency Facebook announced earlier this year.
2019-10-16 05:12 | |
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I don’t know how to tell you this, but at least some of the people who work at CNN have a personal bias against President Donald Trump. According to performance art group Project Veritas, CNN employee Cary Poarch came forward earlier this year with hundreds of hours of video he secretly recorded inside the network.
2019-10-15 02:04 | |
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Mara Group, a pan-African company that works in technology and finance sectors, has claimed to launch the first fully ‘Made in Africa‘ phones in Rwanda. As per a report by CNN, the company opened a new manufacturing facility in the country’s capital, Kigali, earlier this week.
2019-10-11 14:25 | |
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Following the deep price drops which closed out the month of September, October started with a quiet, middling week of trading activity. In the wider ecosystem, the Bitfinex/Tether group appears to be readying themselves for major lawsuits around claims of market manipulation, while payment processing giant Paypal says it will leave the Libra blockchain consortium.
2019-10-8 14:00 | |
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Despite the lackluster opening of the Bakkt platform earlier this month, a representative of the CME Group believes that institutional interest in Bitcoin is growing. The US derivatives exchange hopes to support the supposed demand with further options for its futures contracts in early 2020.
2019-10-3 23:34 | |
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Prior to its launch, Bakkt’s physically settled Bitcoin futures product was seen by many cryptocurrency investors as a potential major catalyst for next major BTC bull run, but its lackluster launch has come about concurrently with a bout of capitulation within the aggregated crypto markets.
2019-10-2 02:00 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review Very recently, Ariel Gabizon, Zac Williamson and Oana Ciobotaru announced a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme called PLONK, standing for the unwieldy quasi-backronym “Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge”.
2019-9-24 04:03 | |
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Ripple has been fighting a now year-old lawsuit and recently, a group of investors had filed an amended complaint regarding the same against Ripple. The group had alleged that XRP was an unregistered security under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) guidance.
2019-9-20 10:37 | |
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The U. S. Treasury Department said Friday that North Korean state-sponsored hacking groups attacked critical infrastructure, drawing illicit funds that ultimately funded the country’s weapons and missile programs.
2019-9-14 18:04 | |
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YouTube this week issued an update on its efforts to remove hate speech from its platform — and it would appear it’s managed to make some headway. It claims to have removed over 100,000 videos and 17,000 channels specifically over hate speech, which is both good and kind of terrifying when you think about it.
2019-9-4 21:47 | |
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In what is said to be related to Binance's May hack that saw the crypto exchange lose 7,000 bitcoin, an individual claims to be in possession of more than 60,000 images Binance customers uploaded to the platform as part of the know-your-customer process.
2019-8-8 19:00 | |
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Binance has formally denied that it has lost control of some of its user data as rumors continue to swirl around a possible hack. Hacker ‘Extorting’ Binance In a statement issued August 6, the major cryptocurrency exchange said it was investigating the claims, which revolve around a hacker demanding 300 BTC in return for withholding traders’ personal data, including passports.
2019-8-7 12:06 | |
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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group claims it has hosted trading of over 2 million bitcoin futures contracts with $70 billion worth of volume since inception. The derivatives marketplace said in a tweet Wednesday that it traded over 2 million contracts – which equals more than 10 million bitcoins – from December 2017 until July 21.
2019-7-25 20:12 | |
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Ryan Taylor, CEO of Dash Core Group, was in the news last week after he claimed that the implementation of Chainlock protocol would make the network immune to 51% attacks and a chain re-org. Dash is in the news yet again, for their soon to be released Decentralized API [DAPI].
2019-7-24 23:30 | |
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According to CoinmarketCap. com, there are currently 2364 virtual assets present in the space but most of the users would hardly be familiar with each one of them. The top-10 cryptocurrencies control a majority of the crypto market cap and public attention.
2019-7-22 04:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Fortress Investment Group Offers to Buy Mt. Gox Creditor’s Bitcoin ClaimsThe Fortress Investment Group is offering $900 per Bitcoin token to the Mt Gox creditors to take over the claims of their BTC holdings.
2019-7-9 12:24 | |
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If you are participating in the crypto market for years, you have probably heard of the time in which Mt Gox, the largest crypto exchange at the time, was hacked and collapsed. This happened back in 2014 and 850,000 BTC was stolen from the servers.
2019-7-9 04:05 | |
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Fortress Investment Group is reportedly buying Mt. Gox creditors’ bitcoin claims at $900 each
2019-7-9 02:45 | |
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Former Mt Gox customers can recoup $900 per bitcoin owed by selling their claims to Fortress Investment Group.
2019-7-9 22:05 | |
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Former Mt Gox customers can recoup $900 per bitcoin owed by selling their claims to Fortress Investment Group.
2019-7-9 22:05 | |
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New York-based insurance company, MetLife, is planning to revamp the life insurance claims process by utilizing Ethereum’s blockchain. MetLife’s Singapore-based incubator, LumenLab, is partnering with Singapore Press Holdings, a media group, and insurance cooperative, NTUC Income, to release a smart contract platform built on Ethereum called Lifechain.
2019-6-21 22:30 | |
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MetLife, one of the globe’s largest providers of insurance, is using Ethereum to transform the life insurance claims process. Using Ethereum to transform life insurance LumenLab, MetLife’s Singapore-based incubator, is collaborating with media group Singapore Press Holdings and insurance cooperative NTUC Income to release “Lifechain,” a smart contract platform built on Ethereum, reported Forbes contributor […] The post MetLife, the world’s sixth-largest insurance company, using Ethereum to transform life insurance appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-6-20 10:15 | |
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The cybersecurity company Trend Micro says it has discovered a web address that is spreading a botnet featuring a Monero (XMR) mining component. The botnet was also bundled with a backdoor-based exploit.
2019-6-13 22:10 | |
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The most recent market surveillance report from the Blockchain Transparency Institute claims that Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, shows signs of wash trading.
2019-6-9 04:14 | |
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The most recent market surveillance report from the Blockchain Transparency Institute claims that Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, shows signs of wash trading.
2019-6-10 04:14 | |
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Bitcoin’s blockchain is a decentralized ledger whose security depends on miners upholding the network with their systems. Miners are rewarded for their work with Bitcoins, keeping these group of miners motivated and by extension, keeping the network secured.
2019-5-30 16:00 | |
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BlockchainNZ, an organization that claims to be focused on enabling New Zealand businesses and individuals to advance in all things distributed ledger technology (DLT ), cryptocurrency and decentralization, is set to work with the nation’s authorities to implement a national blockchain strategy to enable New Zealand to get up to speed with other countries, accordingRead MoreRead More.
2019-5-23 09:00 | |
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The CEO of Digital Currency Group has suggested that the recent rise in bitcoin prices could be linked to the U.S.-China trade war
2019-5-21 15:56 | |
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Consensus 2019 was a lively affair with a host of noted crypto-proponents gracing the event. The conference came days after a major hack hit Binance, while the larger cryptocurrency market continued to make significant gains.
2019-5-16 10:51 | |
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Bitcoin’s [BTC] nature and advantages resulted in a lot of its proponents speaking for the world’s largest cryptocurrency. The latest luminary to speak on its behalf is Barry Silbert, Founder of Digital Currency Group and CEO of Grayscale Investments.
2019-5-8 12:30 | |
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The Blockchain Transparency Institute has released its April 2019 Market Surveillance Report, and it claims that Binance is among the exchanges on which wash trading has occurred. It marks the fourth report in which the group has deployed algorithms designed to identify specific accounts engaging in wash trading.
2019-5-6 20:01 | |
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Omega Group is allegedly based out of Kiev, Ukraine and run by Bartosz Nafalski. The platform has an affiliate program and offers the members the opportunity to invest in what is called “BitBonds,” which it claims have a guaranteed rate of return.
2019-5-6 11:10 | |
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Daily active accounts for Stellar Lumens are grossly underrepresented by available charting tools, according to an analysis by OrbitLens. The group claims that active accounts for XLM should be 10x reported figures.
2019-5-2 14:00 | |
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On April 29 Bitcoinist reported that the SEC had temporarily suspended trading securities at Bitcoin Generation (BTGN). President and CEO Deniz Hadjiev reached out to share his official response.
2019-5-2 12:00 | |
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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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The military wing of Hamas, the Palestinian Sunni-Islamist fundamentalist group listed as a terror organization by the United States and European Union, has been relying on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for quite some time now.
2019-4-26 18:00 | |
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Following approval from European authorities, Swiss investment firm Final Frontier is partnering with Bitfury Group to launch a regulated bitcoin mining fund for personal and institutional investors.
2019-4-26 19:00 | |
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is looking into two major cryptocurrency exchange platforms as part of an investigation. According to a report published by Reuters Japan on April 23, 2019, the investigation by the financial watchdog is connected to the legal compliance and customer protection standards of trading platforms Fisco Digital Asset Group (FDAG) and Huobi Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of Huobi Global.
2019-4-24 22:55 | |
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Bitcoin fund Adamant Capital is convinced that the bottom of the bear market is in, and true to its name, the firm has laid out an unwavering case for this position with some persuasive hard data and fundamental analysis.
2019-4-20 22:59 | |
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A multimillion-dollar security breach involving a third-party vendor hastened Ripple’s acquisition of Fortress Trust on Sept. 8.
Creditors have until Dec. 31 to accept the offer, which is lower than one made previously.
Creditors have until Dec. 31 to accept the offer, which is lower than one made previously.