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Estonia Revokes More Than 1,000 Crypto Firms’ Licenses This Year
15.12.2020
Over 1,000 cryptocurrency firms’ licenses have been revoked in Estonia this year as the country tightens the oversight of the crypto industry amid heightened money-laundering concerns. 1,000+ Crypto Firms Lost Their Licenses This Year The Estonian Ministry of Finance revealed Friday that...
Ledger Wallet Customer Data Leak Invokes Threats, Phishing Scams, User Allegedly Loses Life Savings
13.12.2020
The cryptocurrency hardware wallet firm Ledger was hacked last June and over a million emails were exposed, according to reports from the company at the time. Months later, the hackers who obtained the Ledger data emailed clients, sent texts to customers, and created phishing links for users...
CipherTrace warns of surge in funds lost to MetaMask phishers
3.12.2020
Phishers are coming after MetaMask users in increasingly clever ways
Exchange Blunder Exposes Names and Email Addresses of ‘270,000 Users’
2.12.2020
"You lost a long-term customer today," one disgruntled user wrote.
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No, You Can’t Buy Shares in Bitcoin
29.11.2020
With bitcoin going through an extended bull-run, scammers and con artists have been on hand to exploit a general fear of missing out (FOMO). Many early adopters of bitcoin became multi-millionaires by simply holding the digital asset. New Scam Tactic Consequently, many bitcoin investment scams have...
Chainlink Price Crosses Above $12.5 and Reclaims Lost Support
27.11.2020
Chainlink, one of the lucrative projects amongst the top 10 coins of the global crypto market, is seen pulling back just like any other altcoin of the market, including the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization—Bitcoin. The entire crypto market is seen losing the winning streak, including...
Litecoin Price Breached 15-Month Resistance while Lost 20% in 2 Days
26.11.2020
Litecoin’s Recent Price Summary Litecoin, one of the oldest cryptos amongst the top 10 of the global market was seen spurring at the onset of the week when it just leaped to a position above Bitcoin Cash based on market capital. While LTC leaped above BCH, the former was seen breaching a 15-month...
Cypherpunk, Crypto Anarchy and How Bitcoin Lost the Narrative
24.11.2020
The crypto industry tends to give "cypherpunk" vibes a great deal of lip service without much attention to their real values
The word ‘decentralized’ has lost all meaning — Enough is enough
22.11.2020
The concept of decentralization isn’t being given the respect it deserves — and change is needed
Fake Uniswap app on Google Play Store has already lost one user $20,000
20.11.2020
The fraudulent mobile app has already received over 100 downloads
Buterin Sold Ethereum To Novogratz At Premium & "Lost" Hundreds Of Millions
17.11.2020
Vitalik Buterin. Source: a video screenshot, edited by Cryptonews.com
Mike Novogratz, CEO of digital asset-focused financial services firm Galaxy Digital, has admitted to buying ETH 500,000 from Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin five years ago, paying a premium price of USD 0.98 - USD 0.99...
Calling Tops and Bottoms: 2020’s Most Popular Bitcoin Traders and Analysts
15.11.2020
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading is quite popular these days. With the price upswings and volatility in 2020, crypto traders have made and lost a lot of money. In the last few years, a number of digital currency enthusiasts have been attracted to professional traders and analysts routinely...
Why Bitcoin price just lost $16K in a 'typical' weekend drop
14.11.2020
Despite the weekend, the price of Bitcoin has seen volatility within the past 12 hours as stacked sell orders at $16,500 likely caused the drop
You're Not Alone: Ripple Exec Lost Thousands on ‘Worthless’ Tokens Too
11.11.2020
David Schwartz. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/UNCHAIN Convention
Learn from your mistakes, goes the old adage.
And when it comes to crypto investment, it appears that there is no shortage of mistakes to be made – providing the rest of the world with plenty of opportunities to learn from other...
Ripple CTO says he lost $300K trading no-name altcoins
11.11.2020
“I’ve bought quite a few cryptocurrencies that turned out to be disasters.”
8,000 Bitcoin Scam Victims Get Refunds From US Regulator
7.11.2020
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is refunding about 8,000 victims who lost money from investing in two bitcoin scams. The fraudulent schemes promised that investors could turn their cryptocurrency payments of about $100 into $80,000 in monthly income. Bitcoin Pyramid Schemes’ Victims...
Bitcoin Network’s Mining Difficulty Sees Largest Epoch Drop Since 2011
4.11.2020
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty saw the second-largest drop in history on Tuesday, as the difficulty dropped to 16.78 trillion, losing a touch over 16% since last week’s all-time difficulty high. The last time bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped so low was in October 2011, when...
Protect and serve? The dilemma of reissuing lost or frozen DeFi tokens
28.10.2020
DeFi apps attempt to return crypto funds affected by the KuCoin hack to users. Are they to blame for the issues?
Harvest Finance Attacked, Reportedly USD 24M Lost, FARM Down 50%
26.10.2020
Source: Twitter/@harvest_finance
Another decentralized finance (DeFi) project, Harvest Finance, has suffered a flashloan attack that lasted for seven minutes, with reportedly at least USD 24m exploited.
The DeFi side of the Cryptoverse has been on high alert in the last six hours, with many...
The Silk Road Balance Sheet Discrepancy: Bitcoin Worth $4.8 Billion Still Missing
12.10.2020
The original Silk Road marketplace has been shut down for well over seven years now and to this day, 444,000 bitcoin worth $4.8 billion is still missing. Just recently, a report focused on those funds discusses one of the market’s biggest mysteries and how people have seemingly forgotten...