UK hacker linked to compromised celebrity X accounts used to promote $530m meme coin scam: report 

On-chain sleuth ZachXBT has identified connections between the hack of two Hollywood celebrities’ X accounts — which were used to create meme coin scams — and the convicted UK hacker Gurvinder Bhangu, aka Gurv. In an X thread today, July…

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Floki Inu Roadmap Reveals Plans For Regulated Bank Accounts, FLOKI Faces 17% Downtrend

The development team behind the dog-themed meme coin Floki Inu has unveiled its highly anticipated roadmap for 2024, revealing several upcoming features and utility-focused initiatives.   Notable highlights include the launch of regulated digital banking accounts, integration with the Venus decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, the Floki debit card’s introduction, and the Valhalla mainnet’s upcoming release.

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BOME frenzy costs users $3M - All you need to know

The phisher posted about a fake airdrop of a “BULL” token. Fake accounts of the BOME creator were also popping up. The meme coin season is in full swing. With new tokens getting launchedThe post BOME frenzy costs users $3M - All you need to know appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Coinbase Crash: App Outage Sparks Panic As Customers Face $0 Balances In Accounts

In a concerning turn of events, Coinbase (COIN), one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, experienced a crash in its application, causing the firm’s stock to rapidly plummet to the $200 level.

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USDC’s circulating supply falls below 25 billion after Circle curbs minting services for retail customers

USD Coin, the second-largest stablecoin, has seen its circulating supply decline below 25 billion for the first since 2021 after its issuer, Circle, curbed minting services for retail users. “In September 2021, we sunset a customer app and are now offboarding those legacy, individual consumer accounts,” Circle said in an Oct.

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PEPE Scam Alert: Telegram, Twitter Accounts Hacked

Representatives of Pepe (PEPE), third-largest meme coin by market capitalization, say that two popular PEPE-associated accounts are hacked

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Circle, Tether freeze over half of the $126M assets stolen from Multichain breach

Circle and Tether have blacklisted five addresses containing $67. 5 million worth of assets stolen from Multichain on July 7. USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle froze three accounts holding $65 million worth of stolen assets, including 63 million USDC, PeckShield tweeted.

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Hackers Take Control Of Robinhood Twitter Account To Promote Fake Crypto

Hackers broke through the social media accounts of Robinhood, a prominent US online trading platform, to peddle a fraudulent coin. The fake token is called RBH on the Binance Smart Chain. Wednesday, the account released a tweet announcing the debut of the suspicious coin on BSC, with an initial price of $0.005. An analysis of the […]

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Portuguese banks shutting crypto accounts citing risk management concerns

The Bank of Portugal has licensed all of the exchanges that have had their accounts closed, including Criptoloja, Mind The Coin and Luso Digital Assets.

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South Korea Toughens Up Security In Response To Terra’s Crash

According to Local media accounts, South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has moved to standardize risk assessment for virtual assets, the FSS reported these details during the “Enactment of the Digital Asset Framework Act and Emergency Inspection of Coin Market Investor Protection Measures” conference.

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PrimeXBT crypto exchange lists Monero

Monero (XMR/USD), which bills itself as the #1 privacy coin in crypto, can now be traded long or short with leverage on PrimeXBT margin accounts and the Covesting Copytrade module, Monero’s official Twitter account posted.

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Binance Restricts Personal Accounts of 281 Nigerian users

A growing number of reports on social media allege that Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange platform, is aggressively clamping down on the wallets of users in Africa. In some other examples, users allegedly got feedback stating that their accounts may have been a recipient of fraudulent coin payments currently being tracked down, hence the […]

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SQUID token up 600% despite debacle and Binance investigation

Binance blacklists Squid Game developer accounts and reports that developers used coin mixers to cover their tracks.

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Ekart Inu Coin Completes 60k+ Accounts Within First 48hrs of Presale

Ekart Inu coin is being hailed as inu's killer and it has already completed 60,000+ account holders within 48hrs after announcing their presale. The post Ekart Inu Coin Completes 60k+ Accounts Within First 48hrs of Presale appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Coinbase Launches High Yield USDC Accounts With 4% APY

Coinbase, the largest exchange in terms of crypto reserves held, has announced the introduction of a savings program tied to usd coin. The company’s high yield USDC savings program allows customers to gain 4% APY interest on stablecoin accounts.

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China’s Weibo Blocks Crypto Accounts Amid Fresh Crackdown

Bitcoin price dropped 5% after Weibo blocked several accounts maintained by crypto influencers, media… The post China’s Weibo Blocks Crypto Accounts Amid Fresh Crackdown appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Cardano (ADA) IRA and 401k Funds Allow for Retirement Alternatives

ADA, a third-generation cryptocurrency and the native coin of the Cardano blockchain, can be accessed for investors’ IRA and 401k accounts. It will join the likes of Bitcoin, XRP, and ETH, as well as LTC, DOT, EOS, and LINK.

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Coinbase holds more than 10% of the total crypto cap

Coinbase custody accounts for more than 10% of the entire crypto capitalisation according to… The post Coinbase holds more than 10% of the total crypto cap appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Japan crypto exchange Coincheck records record account activity in 2020

Coincheck, a licensed Japan-based bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange, today released some statistics on user accounts, and trends for the service year of 2020. Of the 14 crypto-assets handled by Coincheck, the coin with the highest price increase in 2020 was NEM (XEM).

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US prosecutors go after crypto accounts linked to North Korea

Prosecutors in the US filed a lawsuit against 280 cryptocurrency accounts as they are... The post US prosecutors go after crypto accounts linked to North Korea appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Ethereum accounts for 51% of value held on the blockchain

With the rise of altcoins and stablecoins, the value of ETH only comprises 51%...

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Dogecoin Margin Trading and Saving Accounts Now on OKEx

The announcement follows a Dogecoin marketing campaign that caused the coin’s price to surge 124% in two days.

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More than 4,000 bank accounts belonging to crypto traders frozen by Chinese authorities

Police from Guangdong province freeze bank accounts on suspicion of involvement in money laundering... The post More than 4,000 bank accounts belonging to crypto traders frozen by Chinese authorities appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Circle To Boost Adoption of USD Coin (USDC) With Business Accounts and API Services

As Circle looks to dive deeper into making its stablecoin (USDC) a household name, it is continuing to spin-off acquired projects that aren't a core business. Next up on the chopping block is the crowdfunding platform SeedInvest that it bought back in October of 2018.

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5 Top Crypto Twitter Traders Are Bullish on Bitcoin Right Now

As Bitcoin (BTC) enters another bull-and-bear fight, ranging between $7,800 and $8,000, crypto Twitter traders are warming up to a bullish attitude. Leading Twitter Accounts See Potential for Bitcoin Earnings on Bullish Moves Leading social media names have returned with a bullish attitude to bitcoin price moves, as the coin is now battling out new support levels.

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RightBTC adds new savings account service; lists DASH

RightBTC, a bitcoin/crypto exchange company, has announced the launch of a savings accounts service. Interest calculation commences after assets have been transferred into the savings account. Based on the annual rate of each coin, the interest earned will be calculated and distributed automatically to the savings account at 00:00 (UTC) each day.

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Universe Coin ICO

Universe Coin is an innovative payment platform for cryptocurrency billing, immediate conversion into fiat currency and corresponding delivery to the seller also in fiat currency, with speed, simplicity and security for customers and retailers.

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Binance.US opens account deposits in preparation for trading, adds BNB

Binance. US announced that its platform will now start accepting account registrations and deposits of six originally announced coins, with the addition of Binance Coin (BNB). The platform, however, will not be available to users in 13 states, including New York, Washington, and Texas.

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Orionix ICO

We present Orionix, a comission-free games and items exchange platform along with ORX token that covers operational costs by minting its own native currency. The project aims to facilitate communication, exchange and security between players.

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Number Of Addresses Owning At Least 1 Billionth Of Bitcoin Supply Reaches Its ATH

The number of addresses that now own at least 1 billionth of Bitcoin’s supply is at its all-time high, as per the data provided by Coin Metrics. At current prices, this accounts for addresses that own more than $200 in BTC.

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Binance’s Boost: BNB Ready for $43 After Strong Signal

Binance Coin (BNB) is up 7. 1 percent Free airdrop for XLM owners in Binance Binance, amassing $775k after unknowingly staking XLM, will continue staking. Preparing to boost XLM accounts with free airdrops, BNB prices are up 7.

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Coin Metrics Finds Inaccuracies With Kik's Kin Usage Claims

After Kik claimed its blockchain saw more activity than both Ethereum and Bitcoin, data provider Coin Metrics found that while users were creating Kin accounts, 93% of them remained empty.

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Airdrop Takes 60% of Ethereum’s Network

A token no one has heard of is eating 60% of ethereum’s capacity through an airdrop to countless of accounts. More Gold Coin, which doesn’t even have a website that...

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‘GlobalCoin’: Not Everyone Thinks Facebook’s Crypto Project is a S***coin

By CCN: Zcash developer Zooko Wilcox, who has previously opined that cryptocurrencies can be used to evade taxes, posted an “unpopular opinion” to Twitter today: Facebook’s crypto project is “awesome.

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Damaged Reputation: Can Cryptocurrency Exchanges Recover from Past Failures?

The cryptocurrency industry is, by all accounts, in its infancy. The first every cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, just recently celebrated its tenth birthday. In as many years, the coin has had a massive boom and bust cycle,.

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In Light of Tether’s Fractional Reserve, a Shadow of Fiatcoins’ Future

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.

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Miner with “Satoshi Nakamoto” Handle Gaining Majority on the Bitcoin Cash Blockchain

The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community is preparing itself for another hash war as an unknown miner with Satoshi’s name in the block’s coin base accounts for 44% of current BCH hash rate. A Reddit user posted these findings on April 29, 2019.

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Miner with ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ Handle Gaining Majority on the Bitcoin Cash Blockchain

The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community is preparing itself for another hash war as an unknown miner with Satoshi’s name in the block’s coin base accounts for 44% of current BCH hash rate. A Reddit user posted these findings on April 29, 2019.

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Tron [TRX] records a block height of over 8.7 million; accounts exceed 2.6 million

Tron, the eleventh largest cryptocurrency on the CoinMarketCap list, saw a great fall on April 26 as its price fell from $0. 0250 to $0. 0225. However, the coin started to recover at press time, exceeding the block height of 8.

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Crypto-Friendly Banking Platform Cashaa Offers Personal and Business Accounts

People and businesses in need of crypto-friendly banking now have a new service to try. Cashaa is a London-based online platform that recently launched promising one account for old and new money.

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New Crypto-Friendly Bank Cashaa Offers Personal and Business Accounts

People and businesses in need of crypto-friendly banking now have a new platform to try. Cashaa is a London-based online bank that recently launched promising one account for old and new money. Its products are targeted at those who are underserved by traditional financial institutions.

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Cryptocurrency exchanges vs Bitcoin SV

Binance and ShapeShift cryptocurrency exchanges announced that they would delist the controversial Bitcoin SV, supported by Craig "False Satoshi" Wright. Other crypto services are likely to follow them and stop supporting Bitcoin SV.

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Dubbed Crypto’s Hot New Trend, Staking Raises Major Security Risks

During what has become the longest bear market to date in cryptocurrency, it’s no surprise that anxious investors are eager to find alternative strategies to continue making gains during the downturn.

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On Collusion

Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.

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Lambo, Land Rovers taken during $22M ICO fraud investigation

In Canada, authorities have seized luxury cars and frozen bank accounts owned by the ringleaders of FUEL, an allegedly fraudulent $22-million initial coin offering (ICO) from 2017. Court documents claim “blockchain services company” Vanbex raised $22 million (CAD$30 million) in cryptocurrency and fiat by with absolutely no intention to develop the FUEL token, reports CoinDesk.

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Tron’s TRX Cryptocurrency Remains A Top 10 Coin But Has Over 2 Million User Accounts

Tron Remains At The Bottom Of The Top 10 Cryptos But Reaches 2 Million Accounts Tron (TRX) has seen some mixed times lately. While the token has definitely seen some important growth, it has fallen from the 9th to the 10th position by market cap, according to CoinMarketCap (CMC). Despite falling from the 9th place, […]

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In the Daily: New Terms From Bitmex, Binance Coin Record, Malta Bank Accounts

In this edition of The Daily, Bitmex has updated its Terms of Service. The revised rules prohibit residents of certain countries, including the U. S. , from trading digital assets on the platform.

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Bitcoin Price Evaluation Of $1,500,000 USD Per BTC Coin Surfaces If It Accounts For All Fiat And Gold Holdings

Bitcoin Could Be Valued At $1.5 Million USD Per Coin If It Absorbs All Fiat And Gold Holdings When Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, he was interested in creating a solution for the financial world that would take all far away from traditional finance companies and Wall Street and closer to having more freedom to own […]

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DigiByte (DGB Coin) Vs Binance Exchange Is Now A Thing: The Truth Versus A Troll Bot Army

DigiByte Accounts Blocked On Twitter; What’s Going On? DigiByte seems to be experiencing some issues on Twitter after being accused of spreading FUD regarding the Binance cryptocurrency exchange and Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of the platform.

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