Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Review: [2023]

Today we’ll talk about PIA (Private Internet Access), a popular VPN that has been in business for almost 20 years. In the interest of full disclosure be aware that this writer used PIA for several years before switching to ExpressVPN in 2018.

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Bitcoin ETF Excitement Drives Wall Street Giant CME Above Binance in BTC Futures Rankings

CME's rise to the top rank highlights the growing institutional demand for bitcoin, as the venue is almost exclusively used by large traditional financial institutions, one analyst noted.

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CME Topples Binance as Top Bitcoin Futures Exchange as Crypto ETF Excitement Soars

CME's rise to the top rank highlights the growing institutional demand for bitcoin, as the venue is almost exclusively used by large traditional financial institutions, one analyst noted.

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Scammer steals over $50k in crypto from the DEA

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was duped out of almost $55,000 in crypto by a con artist. This bold theft used a special mix of surveillance, airdropping, and deception. The US Department of Justice’s DEA division primarily focuses on reducing the movement of illegal drugs into and out of the country.

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Vigilante hacker burns hundreds of BTC held in wallets used by Russian intelligence

A vigilante hacker burned roughly $300,000 worth of Bitcoin found in almost a thousand addresses allegedly linked to Russian intelligence agencies through the OP_RETURN function in 2022, according to Chainalysis research.

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NFTs Used to Serve Court Papers in Victory Against Hackers

A hacking victim has submitted court papers as NFTs and won the case. The ruling took place last week, where the plaintiff, who goes by the name Rangan Bandyopadhyay, lost almost $1 million in USDT in a hacking scheme back in December 2021.

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Elon Musk Sells $4 Billion Tesla Shares Since Twitter Takeover – Will He Offload His Crypto Holdings?

Elon Musk – the world’s richest person with a net worth of over $200 billion – sold almost $4 billion worth of Tesla shares after previously announcing he was already done doing so. It can be recalled that in August 9, Musk used Twitter – which he now owns courtesy of a $44 billion purchase […]

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Top 5 Metaverse Tokens Below $10M Market Cap to Watch in October 2022

Metaverse tokens are virtual currencies used for transactions in the metaverse. Metaverse is a virtual world with a replica of almost everything in the real world. Metaverse tokens have a total market capitalization of $12,654,232,376 and a total trading volume of $1,167,942,299, with some big names such as ApeCoin, Internet Computer,  Decentraland, Sandbox, and Others.

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Crypto Miner F2Pool Mined the Last-Ever PoW Ether Block Before Merge

The miner used almost 30 million gwei to pay for that transaction.

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Almost a quarter of US investors used loans to buy crypto

A large number of retail investors in the United States have taken out loans, often at exorbitant interest rates, to buy cryptocurrencies, and more than half of such investors ended up losing money, according to a recent survey by DebtHammer.

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Biggest ‘stETH’ Pool Almost Empty, Complicating Exit for Would-Be Sellers

A trading pool that large institutional investors such as Alameda Research and Three Arrows Capital have used to dump their “stETH” tokens is now nearly drained and heavily imbalanced, potentially trapping retail investors as well as the embattled crypto lender Celsius.

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Three Industries That Elon Musk’s Companies Are Influencing

Elon Musk has become a household name used in the last decade when discussing the future. The entrepreneur has a vision for the future that almost no other entrepreneur can rival in scope or practice.

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Earn Through Automated Trading on Top Crypto Exchanges with RevenueBOT

It used to take years of training to become a profitable trader, but not anymore. With the advent of trading bots, anyone can start earning income from trading almost immediately. One of the top trading bots out there, RevenueBOT, helps traders earn income on top crypto exchanges with a few simple steps. The bot was […]

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UK Law Enforcement Agency Seizes almost $2M worth of NFTs

NFTs have come a long way since they first emerged in 2014, and a negative first; a UK law enforcement agency becomes the first UK law enforcement outfit to confiscate NFTs. NFTs and Tax Evasion One of the widely used arguments by crypto and NFT naysayers is that digital assets can be used to launder […] The post UK Law Enforcement Agency Seizes almost $2M worth of NFTs appeared first on NFT News Today.

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2021: The Exceptional Bitcoin Ranging Year

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Binance Smart Chain sets record after 14.7 million daily transactions in one day

In previous times, Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains dominated the landscape as most of the transactions on the space occurred through either of them; however, data from BscScan, an analytical tool used to measure the numbers of transactions alongside other metrics on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) has shown that its daily transaction almost hit 15 million, […] The post Binance Smart Chain sets record after 14.

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Solana vs Ethereum, Who Will Win?

More than ever before, this is no doubt a great time for anyone willing to invest in cryptocurrency to do so. With the price volatility and the addition of new coins with various applications coming online almost every day, cryptocurrency is indeed making a whole lot of sense now than it used to be.

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Interview with Andrei Zaitsev, the CEO of Qchain

Blockchain technology has been used for all kinds of cases for years now, ever since the introduction of Ethereum and its smart contracts. And during this period, the industry has developed considerably, with lots of new advanced platforms emerging, and blockchain expanding to reach almost every industry around the world.

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IRS Seized $1.2B in Crypto in 2021, Up Nearly 10x From 2020

The IRS has already seized $1. 2 billion worth of cryptocurrencies in 2021 that have been used for illicit purposes, which is almost ten times as much as last year. The post IRS Seized $1.

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Stablecoins Are Changing and It’s a Big Deal

Stablecoins aren’t anything new. They’ve been around almost as long as cryptocurrencies have, with the first bonafide stablecoin launched way back in 2014. Since then, they’ve largely been used by traders and investors looking for a temporary reprieve from volatility.

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Bitcoin Price Analysis: 27 March

Bitcoin's price has become used to registering new ATH almost every fortnight. However, in the past week, the coin was subjected to increased bearish pressure which ended up dropping the price close tThe post Bitcoin Price Analysis: 27 March appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Almost 20% of PayPal Users Have Used App to Trade Bitcoin, Mizuho Says

About 65% of users would use bitcoin as a currency at PayPal's 28 million merchants.

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Almost 1% of all Bitcoin in circulation is now used on Ethereum

One of the biggest focuses of this past year in DeFi has been the rapid rise of Wrapped Bitcoin, tBTC, and other projects that allow investors to deposit their BTC in exchange for an Ethereum-based token representing a claim on that Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Skeptic Turns Bitcoin Bull: Billion Dollar Company Buys 17K BTC in 74 Hours

Nasdaq-listed company Microstrategy recently bought almost 17K bitcoins within 74 hours, costing about $175 million. The CEO of this billion-dollar company used to be a bitcoin skeptic but has recently become a bitcoin bull when his company purchased $425 million worth of bitcoin.

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DeFi Boom Almost Doubles Ethereum Active dApp Users in Q2 2020, Report Says

Dapp. com, a leading decentralized application (dApp) analytics platform, has released its Q2 2020 Dapp Market Report showing the big winners and losers in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi).

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Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Review: [May 2020 Update]

Today we’ll talk about PIA (Private Internet Access), a popular VPN that has been in business for almost 20 years. In the interest of full disclosure be aware that this writer used PIA for several years before switching to ExpressVPN in 2018.

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This Billionaire Bitcoin Investor Gives 3 Catalysts That Could Send Price Flying

Bitcoin has undoubtedly been on a tear over the past 45 or so days. Since hitting $6,400 in December, BTC has surged by almost 50%, hitting a local high of $9,550 on Thursday. According to Mike Novogratz — a Wall Street name who used to be a partner at Goldman Sachs and now heads crypto... The post appeared first on NewsBTC.

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China’s Ban on EtherScan Is a Sign of Things to Come

EtherScan, the most widely used block explorer for the Ethereum blockchain, has been flagged and banned by China’s “great firewall”. CoinDesk reported that Greatfire. org, a complication of all websites banned by China’s firewall, had EtherScan added almost a month ago, December 3, 2019.

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Fundstrat’s Tom Lee: 99% of USD is Speculative, Why Discredit Bitcoin?

Bitcoin critics say that the cryptocurrency should never be regarded as a means of exchange because it’s mostly used for speculation. Fundstrat’s Thomas Lee disagrees with this statement, saying that most of the US dollars are used for speculation as well.

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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3

Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.

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Instagram cuts the Following tab so we can like and comment in peace

Instagram’s killing the “Following” tab in its app, meaning you’ll no longer be able to track the every online move of the people you follow. It’s almost as though Instagram recognized the feature was only used by people to creep on each other.

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You’ll soon be able to tell your Google Assistant to forget search history

At times, we thoughtlessly give away our data. Remember that free, unsecured wi-fi connection that you gave your email, name, home address, mother’s maiden name, and the name of your first-born.

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Review: The Atomic9 is an amazing loose-leaf vape under $60

Cloudious9 is set to launch its innovative, inexpensive Atomic9 dry-herb vaporizer. I’ve had my mellow hands on a review unit for the last month and I’ve been nothing but impressed. I almost exclusively consume cannabis using a loose-leaf vaporizer.

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Gears 5 is the latest blockbuster game to welcome the LGBTQ+ gaming community

Gears 5 is almost here, it’s welcoming to queers, and the fact that it’s just one of many AAA gaming titles featuring in-game inclusivity for LGBTQPIA+ gamers means you’d better get used to it.

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Prospects and advantages of cryptocurrency trading in virtual reality

If you think that virtual reality is something that relates exclusively to the field of games and entertainment, then you are deeply mistaken. Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2025, the VR industry will grow up to $ 80 billion.

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Bitcoin Could Follow Gold Fractal With 44% Drop to Under $7,000

Bitcoin has long been pitched as the digital version of gold – a precious metal that’s long been used as a store of wealth, transfer of value, and features many of the attributes that Bitcoin is lauded for, such as scarcity.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Dominance is almost 70% – Buterin worried

The share of the cryptocurrency market, which falls on Bitcoin (Bitcoin Dominance), has reached almost 70%. It was so high in March 2017. In fact, the cryptocurrency market is degenerating in direction of one main coin, which can be accepted as a safe haven by global finance. And in fact it is already used so. […]

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Glassnode Reveals Litecoin Dusting Attack on Binance Affected Nearly 300,000 Wallets

A recent dusting attack that was made against the Litecoin network affected almost 300,000 wallets on Binance. The attack affected exactly 294,582 addresses, despite reports that only a few were affected.

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Here’s how anonymized personal data should be used to create better services

Ask anyone their opinion on companies using their data and the response will almost always be negative. It’s not surprising; revelation after revelation has revealed that the likes of Google and Facebook not only profit off of user data, but are often reckless or intrusive in the way that they do so.

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MyDashWallet was compromised for 2 MONTHS — users, move your cryptocurrency

MyDashWallet, a service that purports to be the fastest way of using DASH cryptocurrency, has revealed its platform was compromised for two whole months, and is now urging users to move their funds as soon as possible (if they’re still there).

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CHEAP: This Samsung 256GB microSD is only $37 — you know what to do

Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! If you have almost any type of electronic device, you’re probably going to need an SD card at some point.

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Can You Trade In Bitcoin?

Cryptocurrencies first came into conception over a decade ago. Of the many cryptocurrencies that are now available in the market, one of the most commonly used is bitcoin. Because of its effectivity and the many other advantages it offers, bitcoins have come a long way.

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Fed Chair Suggests Bitcoin Is Gold's Biggest Competition

In a remarkable admission during his testimony to Congress, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell admitted that bitcoin is used as an alternative to gold, conceding that BTC is a store of value. He said before the Senate: "Really, almost no one uses bitcoin for payment, they use it more as an alternative to gold really.

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How big biased datasets make social inequalities worse

At almost every point in our day, we interact with digital technologies which collect our data. From the moment our smart phones wake us up, to our watch tracking our morning run, every time we use public transport, every coffee we purchase with a bank card, every song skipped or liked, until we return to bed and let our sleep apps monitor our dreaming habits – all of these technologies are collecting data.

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Samurai Shodown will kick your ass, then encourage you to improve

The new Samurai Shodown fighting game is a bit of a shock to the senses — it’s such a slow, deliberately-paced game compared with its contemporaries. And if you’re not used to it, you will get your ass kicked.

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Satoshi Comparisons Surface After Grin Founder Exits in Similar Way

Pseudonymous Grin founder Ignotus Peverell has stepped away from the project, reassuring the privacy coin’s community that it is in “safe hands. ” The move has sparked inevitable Satoshi Nakamoto comparisons.

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Satoshi Comparisons Surface After Grin Founder Exits in Similar Circumstances

Pseudonymous Grin founder Ignotus Peverell has stepped away from the project, reassuring the privacy coin’s community that it is in “safe hands. ” The move has sparked inevitable Satoshi Nakamoto comparisons.

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Here’s why you need to consider a Samsung Chromebook for under $100

Why not save depreciation cash by buying an almost new computer at a used price?You can do just that right now with this deal on a refurbished Samsung Chromebook. It’s a $599 value priced for the budget-conscious (read: everybody) at just $99.99 right now from TNW Deals.

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QuadrigaCX CEO traded and lost over 21,000 Bitcoin in customer deposits

Ernst & Young revealed that QuadrigaCX, a failed Canadian crypto exchange that lost almost $190 million of its users funds, may have committed fraud. Auditors found that the exchange’s late founder and CEO transferred user funds off QuadrigaCX and used them for margin trading on other exchanges, losing millions.

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