Man Who Accidentally Sent $527M in Bitcoins to Dump Sues Local Council to Retrieve Them: Report

In 2013, Howells accidentally threw out the hard drive his bitcoin stash that he had mined in 2009, worth around $1 million at the time but which now would be worth over $520 million.

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Market Braces for Over $120 Million Worth of Token Unlocks This Week

More than $120 million worth of crypto tokens will be unlocked this week, including Avalanche (AVAX), Space ID (ID), Yield Guild Games (YGG), and Lido DAO (LDO). The post Market Braces for Over $120 Million Worth of Token Unlocks This Week appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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2 Million BNB Worth $617 Million Burned by Binance, Here's How Price Reacts

Black-and-yellow crypto giant burns hundreds of millions of dollars worth BNB

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Skyward finance exploit allegedly results in $3 million loss

The hacker appears to have drained the platform of 1.1M NEAR tokens, worth an approximate $3 million dollars USD at time of publication.

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Transfer Error Worth $36 Million in Crypto Sent to Ether Blockchain

3 million JUNO tokens worth $36 million were seized from the wallet of a whale

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US Secret Service has seized over $100 million worth of crypto since 2015

The United States Secret Service has seized over $100 million worth of digital assets from malicious actors in fraud-related investigations over the past seven years, CNBC reported. The post US Secret Service has seized over $100 million worth of crypto since 2015 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Three Arrow Capital, Which "Abandoned" Ethereum, Received $400 Million Worth of It in Two Days

The hedge fund CEO that promised to abandon Ethereum just received $400 million worth of it

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Diamond auctioned for $12 million worth of crypto at Sotheby’s

Sotheby, a leading auction house, has announced that it has sold a diamond worth $12 million, and its buyer paid in an unspecified cryptocurrency. The post Diamond auctioned for $12 million worth of crypto at Sotheby’s appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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MicroStrategy Takes Up A Buying Opportunity In The Weekend Dip; Buys $489 Million Worth Of Bitcoin

Virginia-based MicroStrategy – probably one of the most advertised companies in the news of late, now holds a total of 105,085 bitcoins following a recent purchase of $489 million worth of Bitcoin. The company has now spent an aggregate of $2.

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CoinShares Launches Ethereum-Backed ETP Worth $75 Million

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Bitfinex Cries Fraud as Crypto Capital Executive Indicted by US

How the firm that lost $880 million worth of Bitinex’s funds rose to prominence

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Breaking: Bithumb loses XRP worth around $5 million; claims it was an accident involving insiders

Earlier today, Bithumb, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea, garnered the cryptospace’s attention after speculations of a hack. It was reported that the exchange lost over 3 million in EOS, the fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap, approximately worth $13 million.

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Its Official, Tether Redeems and Destroys $500 Million Worth USDT Tokens

Data shows that the $500 million worth USDT tokens accounted for 52% of the total supply leaving only another $446 million in the Tether treasury. The post Its Official, Tether Redeems and Destroys $500 Million Worth USDT Tokens appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Hackers Bagged $2million Worth of Cryptos from 1 Million Infected Computers

A group of crypto mining malware creators has acquired illegal crypto wealth worth $2 million over the last two years according to Chinese news report. The alleged suspects for the cybercrime include 20 men who were arrested on Monday by Da Lian city Policemen.

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Particle Keen City Venture Allowed €20 Million in EU Funding

The +CityxChange consortium, which includes the IOTA Foundation, has won a bid to lead a new smart city lighthouse project under an EU research and innovation program. A total of €30 million euros worth of backing has been committed, the majority from the EU, for seven EU cities to experiment with smart positive energy innovations.

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IOTA Smart City Project Granted €20 Million in EU Funding

The +CityxChange consortium, which includes the IOTA Foundation, has won a bid to lead a new smart city lighthouse project under an EU research and innovation program. A total of €30 million euros worth of backing has been committed, the majority from the EU, for seven EU cities to experiment with smart positive energy innovations.

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IBM Secures $1 Billion Aust. Dollar in Blockchain Deal

The Australian government has chosen IBM as its central technology partner for the next five years in a deal worth $ 740 million dollars. The agreement will cover technology services provided to government departments, including services which will use IBM’s automation and blockchain technologies.

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IBM Secures $1 Billion Australian Dollar Blockchain Deal

The Australian government has chosen IBM as its central technology partner for the next five years in a deal worth $740 million dollars. The agreement will cover technology services provided to government departments, including services which will use IBM’s automation and blockchain technologies.

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Binance CEO: Expecting profits worth $1 billion in 2018

On 6th July, CEO Changpeng Zhao, in an interview with Bloomberg, said that Binance is expecting profits worth $1 billion in 2018. Binance, in just the first year of joining the market, has become a massive success story in the crypto industry with over 10 million users. Zhao started the venue in July of 2017 […]

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Meet The Japanese Man Who Is Making a Living From Mining Cryptocurrency in His Company’s Dorm Room

“Virtual currencies are processed cryptographically, a miner is the machine that supports this encryption process. If you mine Bitcoin, you can process 12. 5 bitcoins in 10 minutes, which would be the equivalent of 10 million yen, (US$ 90,000).

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Bitcoin Mining Giant Bitmain Worth $12 Billion After Latest Funding Round

Bitmain, the Bitcoin mining behemoth, is now reportedly valued at $12 billion. This new valuation comes after the company closed a $400 million Series B funding round. Bitmain, which controls a major chunk of the Bitcoin mining hashrate, is also set to invest in the upcoming Opera browser IPO.

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Estimated 4 Million Bitcoin is Lost Forever by Users’ Forgetfulness

As much as 20 percent of all the Bitcoin in existence is lost forever, Chainalysis has revealed — as the research firm says it handled contracts worth $750,000 since 2016. ‘We Don’t Help People Find Lost Bitcoin’ In comments to The New York Times, Chainalysis said that user failures to create robust methods of password storage meant as much as $20 billion of Bitcoin is locked out of reach.

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Buglab.io Blockchain-based Cybersecurity platform Conducts $2 Million Worth Bug Bounty Competition for Hackers

The Buglab team has announced it’s giving away $2million worth of BGL tokens to researchers for its upcoming cybersecurity contest. Buglab is set to launch the beta version of its platform and has therefore made it clear that exchanges interested in running a launchpad or promote its TGE will be given its highly effective penetration […] The post Buglab.

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Half a Billion Dollars Worth of Bitcoin Moved For a $2 Fee

On July the 1st, at around 1PM London time, a person or an entity received nearly 86,000 bitcoins, currently worth some $570 million. That instantly made the 183h address one... The post Half a Billion Dollars Worth of Bitcoin Moved For a $2 Fee appeared first on Trustnodes.

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More Cryptocurrency Has Been Stolen in Six Months in 2018 Than the Entirety of 2017

The amount of stolen cryptocurrency in just six months of this year is significantly larger than the amount stolen last year. The total amount of stolen cryptocurrency in the entirety of 2017 has almost tripled in just the first half of 2018 so far.

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Bitcoin Is A Ponzi Scheme And May Be Worth Nothing Soon, According To The New York Post

The New York Posts John Crudele has published an article that discusses some reasoning for his theory that Bitcoin is about to fall out of itself and totally lose all value. Whilst this is a bold and frankly unrealistic claim, this is something that we should explore.

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Syscoin’s blockchain was reportedly jeopardized yesterday as abnormal activity took place at block 87670. The issue has since been resolved.

Widely irregular trading activity took place on Binance — resulting in a deal worth upwards of $ 6 million. Peculiar activity on the Syscoin blockchain took place at block 87670, as more than one billion coins were mined.

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A Single Syscoin Cost 96 Bitcoins on Binance — Issues Purportedly Patched

Syscoin’s blockchain was supposedly jeopardized yesterday as abnormal activity took place at block 87670. Widely irregular trading activity took place on Binance — resulting in a deal worth upwards of $6 million.

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With Coinbase Custody, Institutional Investors Can Now Invest Billions in Crypto

Coinbase, the world’s largest crypto exchange with more than 20 million active users, launched a custodian solution for large-scale institutional investors that could potentially attract billions of dollars worth of new capital into the crypto market.

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Chinese Firm to Finance American Blockchain Startup

A Chinese venture capitalist is looking to fund startups in the US with $90 million worth of Ethereum.

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Someone Spent Only $0.04 on a Bitcoin[BTC] Transaction Worth $300 Million

Reddit forums, recently, heated up as angst, sarcasm and surprise took over the users in the cryptocurrency section. The news of a $300 million transaction broke out. However, what was more interesting was that the sender only paid a fee of $0.

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Donald Trump shows concern about the $23.6 million worth Bitcoin [BTC] seized by ICE HSI

On 27th June, Immigrant and Customs Enforcement [ICE] Homeland Security Investigation [HSI] New York seized about 2000 Bitcoin [BTC] worth around $23. 6 million. The Bitcoin [BTC]’s were seized during an operation launched by the ICE HSI against U.

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$5 million worth Bitcoin [BTC], Stellar Lumens [XLM] and other cryptos impounded in Europe’s LSD raid

Bitcoin [BTC], IOTA [MIOTA], Stellar Lumens [XLM], worth $5 million and other cryptocurrencies along with 800,000 doses of LSD were confiscated by the authorities in Europe as a part of one of the largest drug raids of the continent.

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Letter of Intent for $160 Mln Security Token Investment was signed by Overstock’s tZero

tZERO, a security token exchange and subsidiary of Overstock. com, has signed a letter of intent with investment company GSR Capital for the purchase of $160 million in tZERO Security Tokens, according to a press release published June 29.

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Bithumb hack: $17 million worth Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, Ethereum among other cryptos lost, not $31 million

Bithumb, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide has made a recent announcement stating that the exchange platform lost about $17 million [19 billion SKW] during its recent hack and not $31 million [35 billion SKW] as stated earlier.

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Overstock’s tZero Signs Letter of Intent for $160 Mln Security Token Investment

Overstock subsidiary tZero and investment company GSR Capital have signed a letter of intent for purchase $160 million worth of tZero security tokens

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A dark web drug ring has 17 million bitcoin seized!

The two were nabbed as part of a nationwide operation dubbed “Operation Dark Gold” which targets the illegal and criminal activities on dark web marketplaces. The DoJ seized over $ 22 million worth of assets from the two as well as other co-conspirators whose identity wasn’t revealed. $ 17 million of the seized assets was

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Crypto to US Startups “invest 200k”

A China-based venture capital firm focused on the blockchain industry is launching a U. S. branch with 200,000 ethereum available to invest in blockchain startups – an amount that worth $86 million at press time.

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$17 Million Worth Of Bitcoin Seized From A Dark Web Drug Ring

Bitcoin has been associated with criminal activities for a long time now and while the crypto community has refuted such claims, an increasing number of instances involving the use of Bitcoin in crime suggest otherwise.

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US Specialists Seize Over $20M in Crypto in Gigantic Darknet Crackdown

News US authorities have revealed that their agents had been operating undercover on the Darknet for the past year. The massive operation uncovered the true identity of over fifty vendors on sites such as Silk Road, Alpha Bay, Hansa, Dream, and more.

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DOJ, U.S. Agencies Seize Over $12M Bitcoin in a Slew of Dark Web Busts

The U. S. Department of Justice, in cooperation with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Secret Service (USSS), the Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), have apprehended more than 35 dark web drugs and arms dealers in a nation-wide bust.

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US Authorities Seize Over $20M in Crypto in Massive Darknet Crackdown

US authorities have revealed that their agents had been operating undercover on the Darknet for the past year. The massive operation uncovered the true identity of over fifty vendors on sites such as Silk Road, Alpha Bay, Hansa, Dream, and more.

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‘Precursor of Price Going Up’: Tether Grants Another $250M in USDT Tokens

Controversial stablecoin Tether (USDT) has issued $250 million dollars worth of tokens — which Litecoin creator Charlie Lee sees as a bullish sign.    ‘Precursor of Price Going Up’ Tether has issued 250 million tokens (worth US$250) on June 25, according to Omni explorer.

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What Koreas Crypto scene is saying

At the time, the popular South Korean cryptocurrency exchange tentatively announced a “cyber intrusion” that saw the loss of $40 million worth of cryptocurrencies. If that wasn’t enough, on June 20, Bithumb – South Korea’s largest by trade volume – also announced a major security breach in which $31 million was reported to be lost. No strangers to

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Venture Capital Andreessen Horowitz launches a crypto fund worth $300M – a16z crypto

American Private Venture Capital, Andreessen Horowitz announced a $300 million worth venture fund named “a16z crypto” for cryptocurrency companies and protocols. Chris Dixion, General partner at Andreessen Horowitz mentioned the same in one of his Twitter posts, which detailed the features of the traditional venture capital.

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Alert! USD Tether prints USDT tokens worth $250 million, Charlie Lee comments!

USD Tether, the stablecoin which reportedly has 1:1 USD backing through reserve banking, has just printed 250 million USDT tokens. This may be indicative of a deposit of $250 million in USD Tether’s bank accounts.

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KaratGold Coin (KBC) Gets Enlisted on HitBTC Following One the Biggest ICO’s ever in History

KaratGold Coin (KBC), a game changing cryptocurrency representing cryptonized gold that can be transferred cost efficiently, securely and in real-time across borders, is now listed in HitBTC. A venture from KaratBars International, KaratGold Coin has recently completed a highly successful ICO that secured investments worth over one hundred million USD.

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KaratGold Coin (KBC) Gets Enlisted on HitBTC Following One the Biggest ICO’s ever in History

KaratGold Coin (KBC), a game changing cryptocurrency representing cryptonized gold that can be transferred cost efficiently, securely and in real-time across borders, is now listed in HitBTC. A venture from KaratBars International, KaratGold Coin has recently completed a highly successful ICO that secured investments worth over one hundred million USD.    June 25, 2018 KaratBars International […]

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Brian Kelly & Charlie Lee “Bitcoin Is Still Bullish”

Despite the recent hack on Bithumb, in which over $30 million worth of cryptocurrencies was culminated by the hackers, Brian Kelly and Charlie Lee remain ‘bullish’ on Bitcoin. This week, the South Korean exchange, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Bithumb was hacked which led to the theft of $31 million virtual currency’s.

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