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Popular DeFi platform Compound Finance suffered losses of over $80M in funds yesterday. This was precipitated by a bug in its new update, one which caused erroneous rewards to be granted to its borrowThe post Compound's Leshner apologizes for 'bone-headed approach' after 'doxxing' threat appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-10-1 19:00 | |
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One of the major threats to businesses online, not only the crypto industry, is cybercriminals’ attacks. Even though the existing networks are supposed to be safe and secure, attackers often find loopholes to exploit them in the bid to steal investors’ funds.
2021-9-25 04:00 | |
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Bitcoin’s recent dip below $55k has led to heavy losses of crypto investors’ funds, with $1.62 billion long crypto positions liquidated within 24hours. In the early hours of the day, Bitcoin’s price, as well as that of many altcoins, went on a rollercoaster—yet again—resulting in massive liquidation volumes across the board. BTC went from $57,800Read More
2021-3-24 07:00 | |
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The NYAG found that Tether and Bitfinex misrepresented the assets backing USDT and obscured the loss of $850 million in user funds. The post Bitfinex, Tether Found To Misrepresent USDT Backing And Obscure User Fund Losses appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2021-2-24 00:22 | |
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Crypto banking and financial services platform Celsius Network (CEL) plans to self-insure its users’ funds against unforeseeable losses, its co-founder and CEO Alex Mashinsky announced on Twitter today.
2021-2-7 18:10 | |
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On the night of February 5, hackers attacked one of the Yearn. Finance pools and withdrew $2. 8 million. Storage losses amounted to $11 million. Tonight, users began to notice that their accounts were losing funds.
2021-2-5 16:32 | |
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Lending protocol, Warp was exploited with a complex flash loan attack for $7. 7 million worth of stablecoins. Hacken Club audited the project. The attack on Thursday allowed the hacker to borrow more than their collateral value resulting in a loss of stablecoin lender funds.
2020-12-18 16:49 | |
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The probability of losing funds through investing or trading to the point where it is no longer possible to recover the losses is termed as the risk of ruin. The "probability of ruin” is as high or The post Investing in Bitcoin: When is it too risky? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-20 23:00 | |
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Hong Kong-based digital currency exchange Gatecoin has reportedly experienced a hack, resulting in losses from its connected wallets.
2020-5-24 14:33 | |
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The ICO sales of 2017 managed to achieve high returns despite the bear market, but projects that launched in 2018 saw a harsher fate. Recent research by Messari Crypto unsurprisingly shows that the best time to buy into a one of these token sales was back in 2017.
2019-10-23 16:00 | |
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One of the mobile-based wallets of Algo Capital CTO Pablo Yabo was compromised, leading to losses up to $2 million.
2019-10-7 12:16 | |
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A South Korean court has ordered CoinOne exchange to cover the losses for an investor whose funds were stolen from the exchange, reported a local daily. A hacker got hands on the investor's login details for the platform and withdrew all his holdings in BTC.
2019-9-28 23:12 | |
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Nigerian cryptocurrency startup Satowallet has exit-scammed, making off with $1 million of its users’ money, reports International Business Times. According to company CEO Samuel Ben, however, the firm isn’t responsible for those losses.
2019-9-27 15:58 | |
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Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.
2019-9-2 04:03 | |
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Crypto exchange Poloniex has announced it will repay trading fees in bitcoin to investors who lost funds when the exchange's CLAM margin trading market experienced a flash crash on May 26.
2019-8-13 19:05 | |
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Thefts, scams and other misappropriation of funds from digital currency holders and exchanges have resulted in a $4.3 billion in losses throughout 2019, according to CipherTrace
2019-8-13 21:26 | |
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The exchanges are hinting at a long process that requires holders state their losses and wait for a reimbursement of their coins or tokens.
2019-7-12 14:15 | |
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2019-6-13 21:03 | |
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Bitcoin under pressure, down 3. 4 percent in 24 hours Another exchange disappears with user funds Coinroom clients are counting losses after the exchange abruptly closed. Some clients had more than 2 BTCs in their accounts.
2019-6-6 20:00 | |
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Bullish Trend Driven By Entry Of Professional Traders That Have Legitimate Cash, Kraken’s Vice President Kraken’s vice president says that the recent recovery in the crypto world has been propelled by the entry of many professional traders who bring legitimate money in the market.
2019-5-25 21:09 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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By CCN: CipherBlade, a blockchain security research firm, has published the results of a lengthy investigation into the claims of a Coinomi user. How Were the Funds Truly Compromised? Warith Al Maawali contacted CCN and just about every news outlet he could find with the claim that because Coinomi had sent seed phrases to Google for spellchecking, he had lost his entire life savings.
2019-5-24 11:28 | |
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Tether, a stablecoin tied to the dollar that is meant to mediate the volatility of other cryptocurrencies, is partly backed by bitcoin. As detailed in court documents obtained by The Block, Tether admitted to using some of the cash reserves meant to back its stablecoin to purchase bitcoin, among other assets.
2019-5-22 23:02 | |
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In its April 2019 Exchange Review, released on May 20, 2019, London-based crypto data analysis firm CryptoCompare found that fiat-to-crypto exchanges performed much better than crypto-to-crypto platforms did over the last month, as cryptocurrency prices rose across the board.
2019-5-21 20:48 | |
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Attorneys for Tether and Bitfinex are hoping to get the former access to its reserves amid a legal dispute with New York Office of the Attorney General (NYOAG). In a letter sent to the New York County Supreme Court, attorneys representing iFinex (the parent organization of Bitfinex) and Tether took issue with the restrictions that had been placed on Tether's transactions with related parties as part of an ongoing case against them, stating that the NYOAG had no basis for disallowing tether (USDT) holders and other affiliated entities from redeeming their tokens.
2019-5-16 18:51 | |
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Cryptocurrency hedge fund managed to survive the 2018 bear market that caused the price of Bitcoin to drop by over 70 percent. A report published by PwC and Elwood analyzed 150 crypto hedge funds that manage around $1 billion in digital assets and found that they suffered losses of only 47 percent.
2019-5-15 11:48 | |
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Crypto Hedge Funds Experienced A Median Of 46% Loss In 2018 Cryptocurrency hedge funds have experienced a median loss of 46% on average in 2018 according to a recent report released by The Block. However, the price of the most popular digital asset fell over 72% during the same period of time. Hedge Funds Register […]
2019-5-13 23:01 | |
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Statistics reveal hedge funds in the crypto sector saw near-50% losses last year, according to a report from Pwc and Elwood
2019-5-13 13:45 | |
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By CCN: Berkshire Hathaway, the multinational corporation led by billionaire Warren Buffett, posted a $377 million first-quarter charge for investment losses related to a solar Ponzi scheme. Berkshire invested $340 million in Ponzi scheme Berkshire made the disturbing revelations in a regulatory filing during its annual shareholders meeting last weekend.
2019-5-9 18:16 | |
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Following the controversy that Bitfinex allegedly used illicit funds to cover $850 million in losses, which it, along with… The post Bitfinex Alleged $850M Fraud Now Wants To Raise $1B For Its Token appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-9 10:39 | |
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Bitfinex is forging forward despite its ongoing row with the authorities, and it's looking for investors to support its efforts. Today, May 8, 2019, iFinex, the operator and parent company of the popular cryptocurrency exchange, released a private token sale white paper, putting to rest rumors of its Initial Exchange Offering (IEO).
2019-5-8 18:33 | |
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Bitfinex is in a bit of a spot here, having been flagged by New York’s highest legal official for some (allegedly) pretty dodgy financial practices. Readers are probably already familiar with the backstory that involves the crypto exchange trying to be sneaky and hiding humongous losses worth $850M by conflating corporate and client funds.
2019-5-7 19:20 | |
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Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) legal sparring in relation to $850 million in missing funds escalated with another round of court filings this past weekend.
2019-5-7 01:42 | |
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By CCN. com: Still mired in controversy over that $850 million loss, the powers at be at Bitfinex have come up with an idea to replace the funds and it’s raising eyebrows for a bounty of reasons. Bitfinex’s solution to try to make whole those who were burned in the hack that led to the losses is to issue more tokens.
2019-5-6 11:11 | |
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The Bitfinex-Tether episode witnessed another twist in the tale after the United States Department of Justice revealed that a part of the $850 million connected to Bitfinex’s alleged losses was in its hands.
2019-5-1 15:45 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether’s legal counsel has written a response to the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) ex parte order, which claims that Bitifinex used Tether’s reserves to cover some $850 million in losses.
2019-5-1 01:22 | |
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The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
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Today it was not a good day for virtual currencies. Most of them are registering large losses after the scandal in which Bitfinex and Tether (USDT) are involved. The New York State Attorney General Letitia James explained that Bitfinex mismanaged customer’s funds, something that could have had very negative effects in the crypto market. Can […]
2019-4-27 00:33 | |
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If you are our BitcoinExchangeGuide’s regular reader. You should already know about the shady connection between Bitfinex and Tether. This Thursday, a document by the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) office revealed that iFinex, the company behind both Tether (USDT) and Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex, is being sued. In the press release, the attorney general Letitia […]
2019-4-26 08:32 | |
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The popular Bitcoin wallet “Electrum” recently reported an attack on its servers calling on users to take additional security measures to ensure their funds are not compromised. In a tweet published by its official account,.
2019-4-10 11:33 | |
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Mark W. Yusko, one of the founders of Morgan Creek Digital, has recently affirmed that private pension fund managers could “dip their toes” in BTC in order to gain more money. Is that a good idea? The economist believes that it is.
2019-4-9 01:25 | |
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After Bitcoin’s meteoric rise to its all-time high price of $20,000 back in December 2017, the first ever cryptocurrency has given investors, traders, and mainstream media more than enough reason to criticize the crypto, call it a bubble, and point to severe losses as reason for why the asset would die a slow death.
2019-4-3 03:01 | |
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Ripple price revival, up 12 percent SWIFT competition increase, after Ripple now CIPS After 20 million XRPs were stolen from BitHumb, exchanges should put in place measures to jealously protect their reputation as well as shield user funds.
2019-4-3 22:00 | |
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A man in the US has been barred from trading following his alleged involvement in a Bitcoin scam that resulted in losses of approximately $1. 5 million in investors’ funds. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FIRA) – a non-governmental organization that regulates member brokerage firms and exchange markets – looked into claims that Daniel Todd Levine, of Englewood (Colorado), offered investors a chance to buy discounted Bitcoin in return for significant returns on their investment.
2019-3-25 18:55 | |
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Mark Karpeles with user funds kept on Mt. Gox in a bid to obfuscate the losses. He was handed a 33-month suspended sentence, Bloomberg reports. The Tokyo District Court also found the Frenchman ‘not-guilty’ of embezzlement, after it decided he had committed those crimes without ill intent.
2019-3-15 13:36 | |
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The infamous QuadrigaCX scandal has culminated in the losses of $150 million in user’s cryptocurrency funds. Now, Canada has called for “input” on tailoring new regulation to cryptocurrency exchanges operating within its borders.
2019-3-15 12:35 | |
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According to an official statement published on February 25, 2019, Bitfinex has revealed that the United States government returned 27. 7 BTC (worth about $105,000 USD) to the exchange, as part of restitution for a hack that was effected on the exchange back in 2016.
2019-2-26 02:39 | |
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Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange has revealed that 27. 66270285 BTC, a portion of the stolen funds from the 2016 hack, was successfully recovered by law enforcement of the U. S. government. Recovered BTC to Reimburse Recovery Right Token Holders Following the hacking event, Bitfinex launched an investigation with the assistance of enforcement agencies internationally, to trace the 119,756 BTC that vanished from the exchange’s premises.
2019-2-26 21:40 | |
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Coinbin, the South Korean Cryptocurrency exchange which took over hacked exchange Youbit, is filing for bankruptcy with losses equating to over $26 million. Cryptocurrency and Cash Transactions Stopped According to reports by Business Korea, the bankruptcy announcement was made by Coinbin CEO Park Chan-kyu on February 20, 2018.
2019-2-25 22:01 | |
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