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Blockchain Bites: Google Goes Down, Nexus CEO and US Treasury Get Hacked
14.12.2020
Yearn continues to rapidly expand through acquisitions, leading some to call it the Amazon of DeFi. While a U.S. Treasury hack serves as a reminder of the amount of financial data in circulation
HTTP Archive’s Annual State of the Web Report
14.12.2020
The HTTP Archive looked at more than 7 million websites and compiled their annual report detailing how the sites were built. And there’s an enormous wealth of information about how the web changed in 2020. In fact, this report is more like an enormous book and it’s entirely fabulous. The data comes...
Authorities Shut Down Darknet Marketplace Sipulimarket, Seize Bitcoin
14.12.2020
A major darknet marketplace, Sipulimarket, has been shut down and its assets, including bitcoin, were seized by Finnish Customs, in cooperation with Europol and the Polish police. Darknet Marketplace Shut Down, Bitcoin Seized Europol and Finnish Customs (Tulli) announced last week that they...
Even The Head Of PlayStation Studios Has His PS5 Upside Down
13.12.2020
The PS5 is a strange-looking console. Lots of curves and swoops. It’s easy to accidentally set it up the wrong way, which is exactly what Hermen Hulst, the head of PlayStation Studios, seems to have done in a now-deleted tweet. Whoops!Read more
There is No Normal
12.12.2020
This year I learned, or relearned maybe, that “normal” is subjective at best, and pretty misleading otherwise. If this forsaken year has taught us anything, it’s that there is no such thing as normal. Things change. People adapt. Everything is relative to everything else.
Besides being quite...
Anthony Pompliano breaks down his Bitcoin outlook for 2021
11.12.2020
Co-founder at Morgan Creek Digital Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano has some thoughts on where the Bitcoin market is heading in the coming year
You Can Turn Down Alcohol In Cyberpunk 2077
10.12.2020
Cyberpunk 2077 gives players a lot of choices, from how you approach missions to how you deal with interpersonal situations. This freedom extends to character-creator options you’ll never even think about again, like choosing your character’s teeth or genitals. But one bit of choice I wasn’t...
SEC Enforcement Director to Step Down by End of Year
10.12.2020
Enforcement Director Stephanie Avakian led SEC investigations during the heart of its ICO crackdown
Illegal Bitcoin use is down, but privacy wallet laundering is up, says analytics firm
9.12.2020
2020 has apparently been the year of privacy wallets, as more exchanges onboard KYC requirements
Crypto Mining Crisis in Abkhazia Worsens After Power Substation Caught Fire
9.12.2020
The crypto mining crisis in Abkhazia is closely reaching its boiling point following the burnout of a power substation amid the refusal of both illegal and legal crypto miners to slow down their operations in the state. Crypto Mining Crisis Abkhazia Keeps Worsening Sputnik Abkhazia has reported...
Gold Bug Frank Holmes Optimistic About BTC Prospects in 2021, Says Halving Cushioned Demand
9.12.2020
The well known gold bug, CEO and chief investment officer at U.S. Global Investors, Frank Holmes recently sat down for an interview and discussed his price predictions in regard to the 2021 value of gold. Holmes also said that cryptocurrencies will continue to do well next year, as he believes...
A million down, a billion to go: How does DeFi reach mass adoption?
7.12.2020
A report this weekend claimed that DeFi has reached a million users, but the emerging financial vertical has a long road to travel towards widespread success
CME Leveraged Funds Double Down on Shorts as Bitcoin Maintains $19,000
5.12.2020
Short open interest for leveraged funds grows on CME as likely hedge trades continue to increase
Wi-Fi Down Again? Drop the Dropped Connections and Upgrade to the Best Wi-Fi Router
1.12.2020
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Facebook’s Libra Crypto Gets Ready to Launch in January as a Single Coin
28.11.2020
Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency is reportedly preparing to launch with a single cryptocurrency, a scaled-down version of its original plan. The launch date for Facebook’s libra could be as early as January. Launch Date for Facebook’s Libra The cryptocurrency libra, proposed...
Coinbase, Others Go Down as Amazon Web Services Outage Takes Down Swath of Internet
26.11.2020
Leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and thousands of other platforms on the internet reported recurring interrupted service and pointed the finger at cloud provider Amazon Web Services, which experienced an outage
Furious Abkhazian Villagers Forcibly Close Down Crypto Mining Farms
26.11.2020
Crypto mining is threatening to draw a nation into chaos – with angry Abkhazian villagers reportedly taking the law into their own hands by kicking miners out of their regions.
The latest development in the South Caucus-located de facto state has seen anarchic uprisings, with miners thrown out...
Coinbase Pro Shuts Down Margin Trading
25.11.2020
US-based major crypto exchange Coinbase Pro said it will disable its margin trading product today, reffering to an unspecified guidance from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
"Customers currently using margin trading will not be able to place new margin trades starting 2pm PT...
XRP price spikes to $0.90, crashes in seconds as Coinbase goes down
24.11.2020
The price of XRP soared to as high as $0.92 in mere minutes on Coinbase only to crash by 30% immediately after
Bitcoin go up, Coinbase go down: Exchange outages and trader outrage
23.11.2020
Coinbase has suffered multiple outages since March, often coinciding with volatile Bitcoin trading days