2020-10-20 21:08 |
The cyberhackers used bitcoin to cover their ties to critical hacking campaign "infrastructure" such as servers and domain names, according to an indictment unsealed Monday by U.S. prosecutors. origin »
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Why didn?t the mainstream media cover MicroStrategy?s big Bitcoin bet?
2020-9-20 12:11 | |
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Uber’s former Chief Security Officer is currently at odds with the law after the authorities found out about what he did while working for the ride-hailing company back in 2016. Apparently, Joseph Sullivan decided to not involve the authorities when Uber was hacked and the criminals demanded $100,000 in Bitcoin. The then CSO is alleged […]
2020-8-21 19:21 | |
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A spokesman for Joseph Sullivan has denied the charges the Uber exec faces for paying hackers $100K in Bitcoin to cover up a data breach.
2020-8-21 05:25 | |
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John Michael Musbach, of Haddonfield, New Jersey pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child by sexual contact. He was then sentenced in 2018 and the case was considered to be over. But there was more to the story.
2020-8-14 23:24 | |
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Bitfury Crystal, a blockchain analytics platform has released a new report detailing the use of bitcoin transaction mixers by darknet users from 2019 to Q1 2020. The report states that darknet entities used bitcoin transaction mixers to cover their paths more in the first quarter of 2020 as compared to 2019, according to a blogRead MoreRead More.
2020-7-15 17:14 | |
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In this episode we cover the democratization of Cryptocurrency. Can it be used to fix everything from potholes to getting jobs? What about using it with Black Lives Matter and traditional politics? Is bitcoin more stable than fiat currencies? All this and more in today’s episode as we talk with Bill and Joshua with PeepsRead MoreRead More.
2020-6-15 16:35 | |
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Crypto.com has gathered a record-breaking $360 million worth of insurance to cover the potential loss of coins stored in special offline vaults.
2020-5-12 17:00 | |
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Stablecoin demand and issuance sees such a dramatic surge in 2020, that the Bitcoin market cap may not stay the largest for much longer
2020-5-1 19:02 | |
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The United States government has already started sending emergency stimulus checks to its citizens to help them survive amid the devastation from the COVID-19 outbreak. Unfortunately, some of the people in dire need of this relief money for food, rent or other basic needs might not get it as the banks are allowed to seize […]
2020-4-16 23:10 | |
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In this Guide, we will cover Bitcoin options trading, options trading platforms and how to trade bitcoin options on deribit. Options contract is an agreement between the seller and the buyer, which gives the buyer the right to exercise the conditions of the contract on a specified date, at a specified rate.
2020-3-21 16:53 | |
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2020 has proven to be a highly dramatic year. In less than 90 days' time, Bitcoin prices not only soared close to the $10,000 mark, but its fortunes reversed as well, with the price of the world's larThe post Bitcoin may emerge unscathed as traditional financial markets run for cover appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-3-14 18:30 | |
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The cryptocurrency sector worldwide saw several historic regulatory events last week. In this roundup, we cover a landmark bitcoin ruling by a French court, South Korea’s first crypto bill, an Australian court’s ruling, Germany’s announcement, and a recent FATF meeting where more than 800 delegates discussed crypto regulations.
2020-3-10 05:00 | |
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In this roundup, we cover an exceptionally busy week for crypto regulations around the globe. We start our coverage with the U.S. Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act of 2020, actions by the SEC, Ripple’s lawsuit, India’s supreme court hearings, Australia green-lighting a bitcoin retail fund, Thailand approving a new crypto exchange, and new crypto guidelines […] The post Regulatory Roundup: New US Crypto Tax Bill, Central Banks Join Forces on Digital Currencies appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-1-23 07:55 | |
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We are starting a new series of articles from today in which we will cover weekly market outlook includes Bitcoin analysis, Ethereum analysis, and Top 3 altcoins to trade this week. So here goes the first edition of this series.
2020-1-21 10:49 | |
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Today, the Winklevoss twins launched their own insurer to enhance coverage for Bitcoin and other crypto-assets. Winklevoss Twins Cover Their Assets According to most experts, lack of insurance and proper custody services are hampering the mass adoption of crypto assets.
2020-1-16 19:00 | |
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In this regulatory roundup, we cover the U. S. SEC approving a bitcoin futures fund, the new IRS tax form targeting crypto owners, and several more steps taken by the U. S. government toward crypto regulation.
2019-12-9 16:35 | |
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Major South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, UpBit, announced that over 340,000 worth of Ethereum (ETH) was transferred to an anonymous wallet. While the exchange did not explicitly mention a hack attack nor specify how the withdrawal was done, the company pledged to cover up the missing funds.
2019-11-27 16:00 | |
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News. Bitcoin. com has initiated a regular roundup of cryptocurrency regulatory developments around the world. For the first edition, we cover six U. S. regulators and India’s decisions on the supreme court hearing and crypto bill.
2019-11-26 21:00 | |
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Every Sunday, CoinDesk plays host to deep, nuanced discussions about the complex issues we cover, with the cast of the Let’s Talk Bitcoin! podcast.
2019-11-18 23:14 | |
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Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has offered a stark warning claiming that terrorists are using crypto-currencies to fund their deadly missions, according to a report by SBS on November 7, 2019.
2019-11-7 13:26 | |
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The massive Bitcoin surge at the end of last week brought some much-needed energy to the crypto markets. The initial catalyst has been suggested as General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech coming out in support of blockchain technology, although plenty of doubters believe that whale traders are using major news as cover for leveraged trades.
2019-10-29 20:04 | |
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Bitcoin is still very much the dark web‘s favorite cryptocurrency, but those looking to cover their tracks are slowly learning to use privacy-focused alternatives. “While we have previously reported a small shift towards more privacy-focused cryptocurrencies such as Monero, Bitcoin still remains the currency of choice for both legitimate and criminal use,” reports Europol with its latest assessment of internet-based organised crime.
2019-10-14 15:45 | |
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National debts have ballooned for most major countries in the past few years. To put that into a crypto-perspective, let’s see how much that would be relative to the current market capitalization of Bitcoin.
2019-10-10 00:54 | |
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A Deep Dive on Bitcoin and Fiat. The SEC wants to regulate Bitcoin with star ratings and Bitcoin gets 1 star. The Feds are injecting hundreds of billions diluting the US Dollar. We cover what happened when Venezuela’s economy crashed and how that could happen in the US.
2019-10-3 20:00 | |
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Mining Bitcoin on your own can be a very expensive endeavor nowadays, as you need money, space, and time to set up a rig. But even after all that effort, it is not guaranteed that you will make substantial profits to cover your investment.
2019-9-30 18:47 | |
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Mining Bitcoin on your own can be a very expensive endeavor nowadays, as you need money, space, and time to set up a rig. But even after all that effort, it is not guaranteed that you will make substantial profits to cover your investment.
2019-9-28 18:00 | |
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After months of keeping the crypto community curious, Bakkt has finally announced that Bakkt Warehouse is now active. In its official Twitter account the company announced: The company also announced that all the Bitcoin that will be deposited in Bakkt Warehouse will be covered by a $125 million insurance cover. On September 6, Bakkt announced […]
2019-9-9 19:58 | |
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Tether has been in the news over the past few months for all the wrong reasons. Not only was the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex charged with using Tether reserves to cover up extensive losses, but many have speculated that Tether is being printed radically to manipulate the price of Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency.
2019-9-4 13:47 | |
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When US-Sino trade wars begun gaining steam, bitcoin surged as equities like S&P, Nasdaq and Dow Jones plummeted. Unfortunately, as fears of an economic recession heighten, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have started feeling the heat.
2019-8-16 00:56 | |
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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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Britain’s financial watchdog has warned investors that they have no regulatory protections to turn to when they buy or sell cryptocurrencies. According to the Financial Conduct Authority, the UK’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme does not cover cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
2019-7-31 16:46 | |
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The government of Australia wants to ban cash payments for goods and services exceeding 10,000 AUD ($6,900). Interestingly, it excludes digital currency, such as Bitcoin, from the restrictions, arguing that if the regulations cover crypto assets, they would also limit innovation.
2019-7-30 02:00 | |
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Ex Microsoft employee Volodymyr Kvashuk was arrested this week amid allegations of digital currency theft to the tune of $10 million. U. S. attorneys for the Western District of Washington suspect the Ukrainian-born resident used a Bitcoin mixer to cover up his tracks.
2019-7-20 16:33 | |
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The cryptosphere was a bit shaken a few months ago when news of the Bitfinex and Tether cover up spread like wildfire. It was revealed sometime in April by the New York Attorney General’s office that the exchange firm had experienced an $850 million loss and used funds from Tether to discreetly cover it up. […]
2019-7-2 18:02 | |
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Fundstrat’s Lee Extremely Bullish on Bitcoin As news of Facebook’s Libra broke, every mainstream outlet began to cover it and Bitcoin (BTC) in general. So, it comes as no surprise that this morning, CNBC “Futures.
2019-6-19 02:00 | |
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If you need to regularly cover fiat payments but prefer to use your digital assets, a platform like Piixpay can be very helpful. The payment provider allows you to use cryptocurrencies to pay invoices, bills and make other recurring payments to recipients that still accept only traditional money.
2019-6-15 17:20 | |
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Bitpay has recently been attacked on social media for charging an extra fee for BTC transactions that it doesn’t ask of BCH users. The reality is that the company simply has to cover its operational costs related to the BTC network, whose fees are currently very high again.
2019-6-6 19:10 | |
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The accusation that bitcoin is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme is perhaps the oldest, longest-standing criticism of the digital bearer asset. The basic idea is that there is nothing of value here and the entire purpose of bitcoin’s existence is to enrich Satoshi Nakamoto and the speculators who bought in for a few pennies or dollars in the early days by tricking others into buying in at a higher price.
2019-6-4 19:03 | |
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has published an update on how it intends to regulate crypto-related businesses and initial coin offerings (ICOs).
2019-6-1 19:04 | |
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Kiosk network Coinstar has expanded its bitcoin-buying service, adding around 100 new outlets and growing U.S. coverage to 21 states.
2019-5-23 12:00 | |
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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 this episode, we interview Tim Draper, discuss McAfee’s Debit Card and McAfee’s knowledge of who the Bitcoin Creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, is. We also cover the big news of today.
2019-5-21 21:05 | |
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With Bitcoin spiking more than 120 percent since the start of 2019, the U. S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says it is readying an updated set of guidelines to cover cryptocurrency taxation. IRS Preparing Additional Crypto Tax Guidelines In a letter to a bipartisan group of U.
2019-5-21 18:00 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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By CCN: Hackers who stole $44M from Binance are busy shifting the 7,074 bitcoin to seven wallets as they work to convert their bounty to fiat. Eagle-eyed analysts at London-based research team, Coinfirm, are tracking the stolen bitcoins, and have found the hackers have now spread them across seven digital wallet addresses.
2019-5-10 15:22 | |
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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 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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U. S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York has charged two individuals for providing “shadow banking” services to crypto exchanges. According to a statement by Geoffrey S.
2019-5-2 23:54 | |
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The Bitfinex/Tether episode made headlines in the crypto community over the past week. The repercussions were felt even in the market as Bitcoin [BTC] plummeted by almost $400 after news broke out that Bitfinex used Tether reserves to cover up its undisclosed losses, speculated to amount to $850 million.
2019-5-1 19:30 | |
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Creator Or Dadosh says Venn creates a "completely new economy" for crypto security.
Crypto investors claiming “my coins disappeared suddenly” have been found to recently download crypto applications from unverified sources.
One of the core developers behind DeFiLlama, a portal that analyzes decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, believes that a hack on Friend.tech, a decentralized social media network on Base, a layer-2 platform backed by Coinbase, will be more “devastating” than the recent breach on Balancer whose front-end was exploited and over $238,000 worth of assets reportedly […]
It’s 2022, so naturally, the feds have brought down a Bitcoin-laundering power couple — one half of whom is a crypto wallet CEO who is also an extremely bad rapper. Heather Morgan and Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein were arrested by federal agents on Tuesday for allegedly laundering $4.
Binance released a news item on its website regarding the Incident Resolution Plan for COVER. The coin fell victim to a contract attack on Dec. 28. A mining exploit allowed the hacker to create 40 quadrillion (yes, quadrillion) COVER tokens.
More details emerge concerning the ongoing Electrum hacks.