2019-1-9 16:51 |
From the fall of Bitconnect to elaborate sim-swap swindling, let's take a look at the biggest scams of 2018
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Canaan, the second biggest Bitcoin mining hardware maker, is reportedly considering an IPO in the New York after shelving its Hong Kong IPO plans in late 2018. Canaan Eyes US IPO Citing sources familiar to the matter, Bloomberg reported that the second largest Chinese manufacturer of Bitcoin mining hardware, Canaan, is looking into the possibility of an IPO in New York.
2019-1-9 15:00 | |
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Popular cryptocurrency project Brave, centered on integrating cryptocurrency with ad-free, safe internet browsing, released their 2018 stats recently. The stats and milestones showcased did imply that the project had a productive year behind it, with strong strides forward made on several fields.
2019-1-9 16:49 | |
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Hashed CEO Simon Seojoon Kim looks at the inherent limitations of ICOs, in particular the belief that "anyone can invest in an initial project."
2019-1-6 12:40 | |
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The year 2018 was pretty rough for the cryptocurrency industry characterized by price crash and immense volatility. The year ended with the biggest crash in the history of the industry with the lead cryptocurrency Bitcoin losing ~80% of its value in the fourth quarter of the year.
2019-1-1 17:44 | |
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Bug Bounties Brought In Nearly $900,000 For White Hat Hackers In 2018 Hacking is one of the biggest issues that plagues the cryptocurrency world, but there have been many other opportunities for cybercriminals to use their knowledge for the good of the industry.
2018-12-31 20:13 | |
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CoinSpeaker Bitcoin for $22K and Blockchain Erasing Industries’ Barriers: Biggest Predictions for 2018 At the end of the year, we've put together a list of the biggest predictions made by blockchain and crypto enthusiasts, revealing which loud forecasts failed and which turned out to be true in the expiring year.
2018-12-28 13:36 | |
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One of the biggest, and most unwelcome revelations of the past few years is just how much social media platforms can be — and have been — used for manipulation and distribution of falsehoods. And in 2018, several social media executives were called into the hot seat in front of elected officials to account for their company’s inability to foresee, prevent, or, in some cases, efficiently treat their multitudinous problems.
2018-12-28 12:00 | |
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After several crashes in 2018, many have been left wondering which of these crypto startups would survive and which digital assets will keep from sinking to 0. There’s no shortage of opinions regarding which of these coins will prove to be valuable and which become useless, but when a popular crypto personality and Twitter account […] The post Over 70% of Respondents say XRP Will see the Biggest Return in 2019, Survey appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-12-28 00:09 | |
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Total crypto market cap rose to $127 billion since our last report a week ago as ether and bitcoin cash were the biggest gainers during that period overshadowing the modest price increase for bitcoin, XRP, and EOS.
2018-12-28 21:00 | |
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Developers for Bitcoin Private have acknowledged a critical bug in the currency’s algorithms, enabling an unknown hacker to award themselves about forty percent of the BTCP total supply. You’d expect that to be the end of the currency, but the truth is it’s not even the biggest screwup in the past month.
2018-12-27 00:58 | |
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CoinSpeaker Record Year for Ripple and XRP: Here’s What Made 2018 so Special Compared to its peers, Bitcoin and Ethereum, Ripple has the wealthiest community in terms of project support.
2018-12-26 13:23 | |
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Bear market or not, Binance has been one of the crypto industry’s biggest shakers and movers in 2018. The exchange has undergone massive expansion both geographically and internally with a raft of new products and services.
2018-12-26 12:00 | |
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2018 has been a year with some awesome games, and some not-so-awesome things happening in the gaming industry. Here are the biggest stories we saw in gaming this year. The Jacksonville shooting We can’t bring up this year’s events in the gaming industry without bringing up the tragedy in Jacksonville, Florida.
2018-12-22 12:00 | |
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2018 is winding down, and we’ve witnessed a number of significant events this year as far as mobile tech is concerned: these include the US government signing an order laying out its 5G strategy, major telcos rolling out 5G, companies like Vivo and Huawei launching mobile phones with fingerprint sensors under the display, a rise in bezel-less phones (or at least near-bezel-less phones!), and more examples of artificial intelligence being used in mobile phones.
2018-12-19 22:00 | |
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The Ripple team has been actively informing investors on how far they’ve come in attaining their goal of making cross-border payments as frictionless as possible. This includes several of the execs discussing the different products available (i.
2018-12-17 08:35 | |
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PDT Protocols provide developers the foundation to build decentralized applications (Dapps). Our Protocols are open source solutions for managing secure Booking/Payments. Global hotel industry total retail value in (2018)- 554.
2018-12-16 23:03 | |
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Blockchain developers are in high demand as the profession ranks number 1 on LinkedIn’s emerging jobs list for 2018.… The post Blockchain Developer is “Biggest Growing Job Sector in 2018” According to LinkedIn appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2018-12-16 23:24 | |
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2018 was underwhelming compared to 2017. The bear market went into full swing and most cryptocurrencies lost over eighty percent. Bitcoin has begun decoupling from many cryptocurrencies including those having some of the biggest developments of 2018.
2018-12-15 19:00 | |
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Google has just published its annual Year in Search query statistics for 2018 and the biggest question of last year was “What is Bitcoin?” According to Google Trends, searches for the term “Bitcoin” have declined rapidly since 2017, but web users querying its definition led internet searches last year.
2018-12-13 04:45 | |
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Active trading whales have accumulated more in 2018 than any period in the Ethereum’s history despite the ongoing bear market, holding a fifth of Ethereum’s total circulating supply, Diar reported on December 3, 2018.
2018-12-5 20:00 | |
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Video games are one of the biggest industries in the world. In 2018 alone, video games will generate $137 billion, a 13% increase year-over-year. Many argue that the first (or the second if you count bitcoin as the first killer app) killer app for cryptocurrencies is going to be in the gaming industry.
2018-12-5 18:32 | |
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Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and Ethfinex now support trading for all six of the market’s major stablecoins. Adding to its support for MakerDao’s Dai and Tether’s USDT, the sister platforms recently listed USD Coin (USDC), TrueUSD (TUSD), Paxos Standard Token (PAX) and Gemini USD (GUSD).
2018-12-4 21:02 | |
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Today Kiana talks about the biggest worries facing nervous investors at the end of a bearish 2018. As market caps continue to slip lower, many crypto holders are wondering if they’ve reached the bottom, or if this slide has a few more dips left.
2018-12-3 20:35 | |
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2018 was expected to be a bright year for cryptocurrencies but has turned out to be a year to forget. New and exciting projects were unveiled, in addition to the biggest and popular coins. The only certainty in the crypto market this year has been uncertainty.
2018-12-3 11:45 | |
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Stellar (XLM) Beats Bitcoin Cash (BCH) And Has Best Performance Around Top 10 Cryptos Even with the bear market being so strong right now and the whole market slowly sliding down month after month in 2018, there are some clear winners and losers in this year.
2018-12-1 06:25 | |
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Cryptocurrency mining malware attacks, which infected over five million people in the first three quarters of 2018 alone could be entering your systems via pirated software and content. Malicious cryptocurrency mining is the biggest threat to internet users in 2018, leaving behind ransomware which had been most prevalent over the last few years.
2018-11-30 15:59 | |
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The majority of the cryptocurrencies extended their losses during the last seven days as we saw the total market cap erase yet another $16 billion from its value. BTC/USD Bitcoin dropped below $4,500 on November 22 and closed the day at $4,370.
2018-11-29 22:00 | |
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Researchers at Kaspersky Labs have released a report stating that 2018 has been the year of the crypto-miners. Previous years were noted for ransomware or browser hijackers but this year has seen the biggest rise in mining malware designed to commandeer unsuspecting computers for their processing power.
2018-11-29 14:00 | |
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Prominent crypto executive Vinny Lingham has gone on the record with his addition to the ever growing list of Bitcoin price predictions. As we approach the end of 2018, which has seen the biggest bear market for Bitcoin for four years, those predictions are not looking brighter.
2018-11-27 11:41 | |
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On November 27, 2018, Spark Blockchain, Krypital Group, and GXChain will host a Fintech & Blockchain social networking party at NYC after the coming Consensus Invest 2018. This social event is co-hosted by Bgogo, Evo Capital and Genesis Group, and it’s exclusively organized by AstroHash.
2018-11-26 20:00 | |
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While we can easily associate 2018 with seeing one of the biggest bearish downturns for cryptocurrency, the latest drop has been both drastic and unprecedented. So far, it has seen a large percentage of altcoins trading at or below 90% of their value compared to their previous highs. The likes of Bitcoin are not exempt […]
2018-11-26 15:53 | |
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It is no secret that crime has moved online. Cybercrime has been identified as one of the biggest risks to society by the World Economic Forum Global Risk Report 2018. One of the primary drivers behind the boom in cybercrime is the ease of availability of hacking tools as well as a rising Crime-as-a-Service industry found on the dark web.
2018-11-23 00:00 | |
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During the last seven days, we saw the biggest crash the in crypto market for 2018. Total market cap dropped with 32 percent, to $140 billion and all of the Top 100 currencies registered heavy losses.
2018-11-23 21:00 | |
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Amun AG, a startup in Zug, Switzerland, has received a license from Swiss authorities to offer a new cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP). An ETP is a blanket term to denote a security that derives its price from an underlying asset (e.
2018-11-20 02:50 | |
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Gabor Gurbacs is confident that the approval of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. And he’s optimistic that the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Strategy will be the first to deliver one to the world.
2018-11-17 01:42 | |
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One of the biggest topics of discussion in the crypto world of 2018 is the possibility of Bitcoin ETF approval by the US SEC. Many believed that it is only a matter of time before the SEC will decide to approve an ETF application, and allow Bitcoin to enter a new “golden age”. However, after […]
2018-11-16 22:49 | |
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Ripple (XRP) has once again overtaken Ethereum by market cap amid ongoing cryptocurrency market turbulence and bearish sentiment. Only $100k Separates Ripple and Ethereum As data from Coinmarketcap confirms, Ripple’s XRP token is now the largest altcoin, losing less than Ethereum in the past 24 hours.
2018-11-15 20:00 | |
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The biggest crypto show of 2018 is now to begin with the hardfork to start activating at 4:40PM UTC, followed by a chain-split about an hour or two after. The... The post The Bitcoin Cash Hardfork is Now Imminent appeared first on Trustnodes.
2018-11-15 19:31 | |
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Bithumb, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in South East Asia and Korea in particular, has announced a ‘Super Airdrop Festival’ that any registered trader can participate in. In a Twitter post published November 12, 2018, the company said that the highlight of the event is a giveaway involving 15 BTC.
2018-11-13 14:00 | |
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Web Summit Conference, which took place on November 8, 2018, is Europe’s biggest tech event. At the event, crypto businesses gave away crypto of over $127 million. Airdrops, Wallets, And Adoption The Web Summit is already sold out and will take place in Lisbon.
2018-11-13 08:26 | |
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Microsoft today revealed PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds would be free-to-play this weekend, the first time the game has ever been free on that platform. It’s a pleasant surprise for gamers, but as far as the game itself is concerned, it looks like a last-ditch effort to generate interest in a game that’s rapidly losing its large fanbase.
2018-11-8 03:03 | |
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The ethereum based prediction market has seen some $808,000 betting volumes on one of the biggest current political question: Which party will control the House of Representatives after the 2018 U.
2018-11-5 18:35 | |
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With the end of 2018 right around the corner, many enthusiasts and traders alike are probably asking themselves a lot of questions, the biggest one likely being, “What will happen to bitcoin within the next 60 days?” Out with the Old, In with the New Since 2015, we’ve witnessed several price explosions for bitcoin during […] The post Op-Ed: November Is Here – Will Bitcoin Repeat Its 2015 Behavior? appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-11-5 02:27 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released a report detailing actions taken against fraudulent ICOs and financial ventures, and, indeed, the year has been wrought with cases.
2018-11-3 00:33 | |
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On November 2nd the world’s biggest crypto exchange Binance, through its blog post announced that they will be supporting Bitcoin Cash’s upcoming Hard Fork. #Binance will support the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hard forkhttps://t.
2018-11-2 17:20 | |
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CoinSpeaker 11 of the Biggest ICO ROIs of 2018 [Infografic] ICOWatchList desighned a new infographic that illustrates 11 of the most lucrative ICO ROIs of 2018 that up to date provided hefty returns on investment. 11 of the Biggest ICO ROIs of 2018 [Infografic]
2018-11-2 13:44 | |
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One of the year’s biggest blockchain summits is currently holding in Malta. It promises to be an event packed with some of the most outstanding speakers and facilitators in the blockchain sector and other related industries.
2018-11-2 00:55 | |
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The Sonos One and Sonos Beam launched with Alexa, but one of their biggest features was support for Google Assistant down the road. Assistant was originally supposed to launch in early 2018, but considering radio stations are already prepping their Christmas playlists, it looks like that’s not going to happen.
2018-11-1 21:45 | |
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Court documents allege that Eisenberg possessed sexually explicit images of minors on his electronic devices, including images of prepubescent minors and minors under 12 years of age.
An Australian federal court agreed to a petition by markets regulator ASIC to hand over some US$41 million in digital assets invested by over 450 Australians with the mining companies to specialists from advisory and restructuring company McGrathNicol.
According to prosecutors, Lee Jeong-hoon intended to revamp Bithumb’s governance to gain from exchange coins, circumventing financial regulations.
The former FTX CEO took the stand for the first time in his criminal trial, but without members of the jury present.
Filed in September 2022, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill is expected to receive royal assent on Oct. 26, 2023.
The former FTX CEO will remain in jail following three judges with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals calling the arguments behind a motion for release “unpersuasive.”
During the bill’s review phase, the House of Lords agreed on certain amendments to clarify its intent of targeting monetary proceeds from fraud or other financial crimes.