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BTCS Crypto Portfolio Expands Over 280% in Q2 2020 Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
24.7.2020
While many institutions struggled to recover from the market downturn experienced in March, publicly traded, blockchain focused firm BTCS Inc. (OTCQB: BTCS) has increased its portfolio by 285% in Q2 2020, through well timed investments in both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), and crossed the...
Crypto Scammers Steal $381 Million in 2020, While Twitter Hackers Direct Funds to Mixers
24.7.2020
Cryptocurrency related scams have taken a total of $381 million from victims so far this year. This figure makes crypto scams the largest category of cryptocurrency-related crimes so far in 2020. Chainalysis data still shows current figures are well below those seen in 2019. In 2019, scams...
NBA Point Guard Spencer Dinwiddie’s Tokenized Contract Raises $1.3 Million
24.7.2020
NBA player Spencer Dinwiddie has finished the token sale of his contract that is hosted on the Ethereum blockchain. The sale of Dinwiddie’s tokenized contract raised $1.3 million which was only a tenth of what the project hoped to sell ($13.5 million). Even though the Brooklyn Nets guard...
US Takes Down $25 Million Bitcoin ATM Operation, Seizes 17 Machines
23.7.2020
The U.S. government has taken down a $25 million bitcoin ATM operation and seized 17 machines along with some cryptocurrencies. The Department of Justice says the man behind this unlicensed bitcoin ATM operation has agreed to plead guilty and is facing up to 30 years in prison. US Dismantles...
English Football Club Hit With Multi-Million Dollar Ransomware Attack
23.7.2020
Cybersecurity authorities in the UK warned that ransomware could threaten the sports sector
South African Exchange Valr Raises $3.4 Million in a Series A Funding Round
22.7.2020
A South Africa based cryptocurrency exchange, Valr has just raised $3.4 million in a Series A funding round led by 100x Group, the parent company to Bitmex. The funding round, in which 4Di Capital also participated, however, does not change Valr’s controlling shareholder structure. In...
Over 6,000 Participants Help Republic Note Rocket Past $8 Million Target
21.7.2020
The crowdfunding model in crypto is far from dead, as Republic illustrates with a compliant profit-sharing token that distributes the proceeds from successful equity investments
VALR Gathers R57-million In Funding Round To Promote Crypto Sector
21.7.2020
Working as the biggest cryptocurrency trading platform in Johannesburg, South Africa, VALR has revealed that the exchange has pooled in R57-million (USD 3.4 million) in its recently concluded Series A equity funding round. The firm is dedicated to using the collected funds in laying strong efforts...
Satoshi Nakamoto Mined More Than 1 Million Bitcoin - Report
21.7.2020
Bitcoin’s (BTC) pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto may have mined more than 1 million bitcoin in the early days of the cryptocurrency, according to analysts at crypto transaction tracker Whale Alert.
The early Bitcoin miner known as Patoshi mined BT 1,125,150 during BTC’s infancy, when Patoshi...
Telecom Argentina S.A Hit by Major Ransomware Attack, Criminals Demand $7.5M Worth of Monero
21.7.2020
Telecom Argentina S.A has been hit by a ransomware attack and the cyber-criminals are demanding $7.5 million paid in the privacy coin monero. The Spanish language site, elperiodista.com quotes anonymous employees stating that the attack started last Wednesday. Initially thought to be a small...
Argentine Telecom Hackers Demanded $7.5 Million in Crypto as Ransom
20.7.2020
Argentina’s leading telecommunications company fought off a cyberattack on Saturday where hackers demanded a hefty ransom in monero to release keys that would allow infected computers back into the system
Whale Alert Identifies 1.125 Million BTC as Satoshi’s Stash
20.7.2020
New on-chain analysis from Whale Alert suggests Satoshi Nakamoto mined an estimated 1,125,150 in bitcoin, now worth an estimated $10.9 billion
142 Million Guests: Hackers Attempt to Sell MGM Grand Data Dump for Cryptocurrency
20.7.2020
Last year the giant resort firm MGM Grand was hacked and the cybercriminals ostensibly obtained a massive dump of names, addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth. Now according to vendors on the deep web, hackers have been trying to sell the data dump for monero or bitcoin. The hackers claim...
Hackers Hack Telecom Argentina, Demand USD 7.5 Million In Monero
20.7.2020
Telecom S.A., the largest telecommunications company in Argentina, has suffered a ransomware attack as hackers demand USD 7.5 million in privacy coin Monero (109,345 XMR) to be paid until the night of Tuesday, July 21. If the company does not meet the deadline, the payable amount will rise to...
$6M Worth of Tether on the Bitcoin Cash Chain Highlights the Benefits of SLP Tokens
19.7.2020
During the first week of July, crypto supporters noticed that Tether issued 1,010 stablecoins via the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) framework on Bitcoin Cash. Now there’s a much larger amount of SLP-based tethers in circulation as the company has minted a total of 6 million on the Bitcoin Cash...
Justin Sun Offers $1 Million Bounty in Exchange for Twitter Hackers
15.7.2020
Justin Sun has offered $1 million to the person who finds those responsible for the recent Twitter hacks
Investor Charged in US After Obtaining Covid-19 Relief Loan to Trade Cryptocurrency
15.7.2020
The U.S. has charged an investor after he obtained two loans worth over $1.1 million from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) intended for covid-19 relief and used some of the money to invest in cryptocurrency. He was taken into custody on allegations he fraudulently obtained the loans. Crypto...
China to Test Digital Yuan on Food Delivery Platform With 435 Million Users
15.7.2020
China’s central bank may test digital yuan on Meituan Dianping’s food delivery platform with 435 million users
Emerging Markets Drive Paxful First Half 2020 Bitcoin Volume to $1.1 Billion
14.7.2020
Peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange Paxful reported Tuesday that its bitcoin trading volumes climbed 35% to $1.1 billion during the first six months of 2020 compared to $817 million a year ago. More than $182 million worth of bitcoin (BTC), on average, was traded on the platform every month between...
Third Crypto Co-Founder Behind $25 Million ICO Scam to Plead Guilty
14.7.2020
Sohrab Sharma would be the 2nd co-founder behind the Centra Tech ICO scam to face prison following the conviction of Robert Farkas in June