2020-7-8 16:05 |
The MMM Ponzi scheme accounts for 10% of Ethereum's transactions and 50% of Paxos's. It's time the Ethereum community did something about it. origin »
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Plus Token, Bitconnect, OneCoin, had one thing in common - an investment deal that sounded too good to be true and when something's is too good to be true, it usually is. With One Coin Ponzi, Ruja IgnThe post Why this Bitcoin and Ethereum ponzi scheme garnered billions (in victims and dollars) appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-7-6 17:00 | |
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Ethereum funds to the tune of $185 million, tied to the now-infamous PlusToken scam, moved on June 24, sending the cryptocurrency market in a tizzy and moving ETH prices down by almost 5 percent at the time of writing.
2020-6-26 17:07 | |
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In the latter months of 2019, one of the biggest cryptocurrency heists/scams was revealed, whereby approximately $3 billion in investors’ Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and EOS (EOS) was lost in a Ponzi-like scheme.
2020-6-23 20:53 | |
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Fees paid to miners of the Ethereum network has been gaining a lot of traction lately. In 2020, it has been on an upward trend. The total fee volume in Ether on the network increased by a whopping 336% in the past two months as mean fee volume surged from 0.00067 ETH on April 17th […]
2020-6-18 21:07 | |
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A South Korean Ponzi scheme owns the address from which the two transactions with $5 million of Ethereum fees originated. Ethereum developers have already created a solution to prevent similar... The post $5 Million ETH Transaction Sender Identified, Go Ethereum Offers Solution appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-6-18 17:17 | |
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As a news organization who began covering the crypto landscape in early 2017, there has been one constant that remains to be consistent so far. And that is, multi-level marketing and cryptocurrency-related, blockchain-based business opportunities simply have all ended up in complete failure and loss for the majority of its memberbase. Breaking onto the crypto […]
2020-6-4 23:11 | |
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Some may have thought that the times of huge crypto Ponzis like PlusToken, OneCoin or Quadriga were over. But a new giant has arisen
2020-5-25 17:31 | |
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Ethereum gas prices have experienced a four-fold increase in one month due to one Ponzi scheme causing high network congestion
2020-5-15 17:30 | |
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2019 was another banner year for crypto fraud that will continue to adversely impact prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum going forward as Ponzi scheme PlusToken unwinds. Although some of its perpetrators have already been jailed in China, active wallets suggest that the entire crime ring hasn’t been arrested.
2020-2-27 06:41 | |
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The biggest $3 billion Chinese-Ponzi scheme PlusToken might be the reason behind the 50% drop in Bitcoin price from its 2019 high of $13,900. But now, the Ponzi could put selling pressure on Ethereum as well.
2019-12-19 16:48 | |
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A huge number of ether (ETH) tokens have just moved from a wallet associated with the PlusToken Ponzi scheme. More than $105,099,000 worth of the native crypto asset of the Ethereum network moved between the wallet and an unknown one earlier today.
2019-12-19 14:18 | |
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A recent “whale” transaction of 789,525 Ethereum (ETH) was claimed to belong to the wallets of the PlusToken scam. The exact holdings of ETH for the scheme are unknown, but this tranche alone is worth $105 million.
2019-12-19 10:30 | |
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Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. Bitcoin, again, saw an effectively flat week, losing a few percent in the past seven days (which isn’t much in the grand scheme of things), according to the latest data from Coin360.
2019-12-14 15:00 | |
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There’s a new scam circulating on YouTube and Telegram, a scam that involves Ethereum (ETH) holders sending their ETH in order to get a 10 times more valuable reward. Unfortunately, the crypto space is not at all free from scams.
2019-12-9 20:04 | |
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The divisive project is one of the most active Ethereum contracts. HEX has finally gone live, marking the most recent project of the colorful YouTube personality Richard Heart. As of Dec. 2, 2019, HEX has completed its snapshot, and its tokens are now in circulation.
2019-12-7 00:53 | |
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Microsoft and blockchain gaming firm Enjin have unveiled a novel tokenized rewards program based on Ethereum, Azure Heroes, and are piloting the scheme in “selected Western European countries.
2019-12-5 12:30 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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French tobacconists are getting another chance to sell Bitcoin coupons after the scheme had to be suspended earlier this year. Local media has reported that the scheme will restart today, allowing 5,200 tobacconists to sell coupons that can be redeemed for Bitcoin.
2019-10-10 14:44 | |
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Third round of ConsenSys’s grants scheme gives away $175K
2019-10-10 12:35 | |
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UNICEF has taken a step further towards cryptocurrency adoption by increasing its acceptance of Bitcoin (BTC) donations. UNICEF Funds To Stay As Crypto According to a press release on October 8, the international body has opted to allow the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to receive money in cryptocurrency.
2019-10-9 10:02 | |
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Dubbed by many the fastest growing Ponzi scheme on Ethereum, the smart contract FairWin has emptied its account, according to data from Etherscan. Just a few days ago, the account possessed almost 50,000 ETH (~$9 million).
2019-10-1 15:00 | |
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A few days ago, it was revealed that a gambling dApp, FairWin, had created a smart contract with a number of vulnerabilities. FairWin had given themselves the ability to drain a smart contract of all the ETH it contained.
2019-10-1 01:00 | |
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Ethereum Blocks Filling Up As covered heavily by this outlet over recent weeks, the Ethereum network has been seeing more activity than ever before. In fact, the network has been used so much that miners...
2019-9-29 03:23 | |
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Fairwin, which is the biggest Ethereum contract in the crypto field, is supposedly risking investor’s funds, as it continues to chunk a quantifiable amount of gas. Several crypto enthusiasts from social media have expressed their concerns about the Ethereum contract terming it as a rapid growing Ponzi scheme.
2019-9-28 17:55 | |
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A critical vulnerability has been found in Fairwin, a ponzi scheme dapp that is currently ranking as ethereum’s biggest gas user. “There is an exploit in the fairwin contract! Details.
2019-9-27 16:15 | |
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The ethereum network is facing unprecedented demand, but it is now used for much more than “merely” transferring ETH tokens. A large part of that demand is due to the activity of smart contracts.
2019-9-16 17:00 | |
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Plus Token may be the new whale in town, taking away nearly $2 billion’s equivalent of Ethereum (ETH), becoming a larger pyramid scheme even than BitConnect.
2019-8-27 10:29 | |
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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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China Arrests 22 in Illegal Bitcoin Scheme Bitcoin mining is still a thing in China. And according to a recent report from XinhuaNet, a Chinese press agency, so is illegal cryptocurrency mining. Due to the.
2019-7-15 08:30 | |
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Bitcoin has already crossed paths with religion, and this is not good news. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD by its Spanish acronym or UCKG in english) has been linked with AirBit. .
2019-6-24 23:53 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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Microsoft announced the development of an open-source formal Ethereum smart contract verification scheme for the Solidity programming language. Announced on the Microsoft blog, the tool will be called VeriSol–Verifier for Solidity.
2019-6-5 17:22 | |
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Vitalik Buterin recently proposed a new reward scheme for staking Ethereum for when the protocol transitions to proof-of-stake consensus. The new scheme would provide scaling rewards based on the total amount of ETH locked up in staking.
2019-4-23 09:44 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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ZenGo Introduces First Zilliqa Threshold Signature Transaction Zilliqa (ZIL) was added to the Threshold Signature Scheme also known as TSS. The information was released by ZenGo on April 8. TSS was implemented in the past in Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and also Binance Coin (BNB).
2019-4-10 23:08 | |
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In a recent development, Zilliqa [ZIL] was added to the Threshold Signature Scheme or TSS. Prior to this, TSS had offered support for Bitcoin [BTC], Ethereum [ETH] and Binance Coin [BNB]. The official announcement by ZenGo read, “After $BNB, we are very proud to introduce the first ever $ZIL Threshold Signature transaction built by our […] The post After Binance Coin, Threshold Signature Scheme offers support to Zilliqa [ZIL] appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-4-9 15:30 | |
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Young Crypto Entrepreneur Arrested In Hong Kong Wong Ching-kit has been a mythical figure in the Asian crypto community for a while now. Some see the Hong Kong native as a successful, smart entrepreneur that.
2019-3-2 09:00 | |
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One Ethereum address spent $450,000 in gas to send less than 0. 15 ETH. Some believe it was a mistake, and are calling for better UI/UX to prevent similar mix-ups, while others speculate it’s an elaborate money laundering scheme.
2019-2-22 02:13 | |
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The Bitconnect ponzi scheme managed to rope in a lot of investors in the two year period it was operational. From February 2016 till January 2018, BCC was the coin that guaranteed profits for many.
2019-2-21 15:20 | |
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Ethereum has proven to steadily be out of step with being secure for users, with a large number of scams blighting the blockchain, according to recent research. According to the report, which was conducted by the specialist research analytics firm, Chainanalysis: Ethereum continues to be one of the most commonly used blockchains for conducting scams […]
2019-2-5 21:49 | |
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2018 saw a new scam epidemic that gradually took over Twitter – and eventually the entire cryptocurrency and blockchain space: the Bitcoin giveaway scheme. It all started in January, at the height of the cryptocurrency mania.
2018-12-29 12:00 | |
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The local authorities in Pune, India, recently confiscated 452 Bitcoins worth $1. 8 million from suspect involved in notorious cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. India’s Biggest Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme According to The Times of India, authorities of the cybercrime department in the city of Pune, India, recently recovered 452 Bitcoins (BTC) worth $1.
2018-12-22 11:14 | |
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Ethereum may be under attack, the Netherlands sets up crypto licensing scheme, and Allianz chief has no time for crypto.
2018-12-13 03:38 | |
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Julian Hosp’s reputation as TenX Cofounder, could be affected by the publication of a video linking him as part of Lyoness, an Austrian business that was described as a Ponzi scheme in several European countries.
2018-12-10 00:29 | |
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A recent discovery shows the presence of phony cryptocurrency wallets found on the Google Play Store. The fight against malicious apps seems not to be ending any time soon. Fake Wallets: The Latest Scheme by Cryptocurrency Thieves According to The Next Web, European cybersecurity researcher, Lukas Stefanko, discovered that four fake virtual currency apps claimed […] The post Fake Mobile Cryptocurrency Wallet Apps Found on Google Play Store appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-11-15 22:10 | |
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$68. 42 Million Stolen In Bitcoin Scheme Since Bitcoin’s inception, a mere decade ago, malicious users of the world’s first blockchain have sought to capitalize on the pseudonymous and anti-governmental nature of the Bitcoin Network and other crypto platforms.
2018-11-15 09:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency traders and investors may be hurting, but that hasn’t stopped regulators from bringing crypto-related criminals to justice. Just recently, a leading financial regulator has brought an Arizona-based man to justice for stealing upwards of $1 million in Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC).
2018-11-14 05:45 | |
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Oyster Protocol, a hybrid IOTA/Ethereum smart contract platform designed to help websites garner revenue, has forked into Opacity, a tool for sharing files uploaded through Oyster. The November 6, 2018 move comes shortly after Oyster’s founder was accused of carrying out a pump and dump scheme using its network.
2018-11-8 00:00 | |
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Rapper T. I. and his business partner are being sued for securities fraud by several individuals that had invested in their cryptocurrency. The “Live Your Life” rapper – whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr.
2018-11-4 22:52 | |
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