August 9, 2018 @ 4:08 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Dark Web vendors are now selling malware for the exploitation of Bitcoin ATMs, cybersecurity firm TrendMicro reports. Investigators at TrendMicro division TrendLabs found recently that an apparently well-regarded hacker experienced in regular ATM malware exploits is now selling a malware package for attacking Bitcoin ATMs. TrendLabs… Read More

August 9, 2018 @ 12:46 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Russian independent news publication Interfax has reported that the owner of a small newspaper in Tatarstan, a state in the Russian southwest, has been fined for carrying a cryptocurrency mining and investment advertisement. The Eleventh Arbitration Court of Appeal confirmed a prior decision to fine Unity Nizhnekamsk… Read More

August 9, 2018 @ 10:08 am By Cali Haan  |  

Two defendants in a class action suit against the beleaguered but rich blockchain project Tezos have been exempted by a judge, though the case will proceed against the Tezos Foundation and DLS. The decision by California Northern District Judge Richard Seeborg was filed yesterday in… Read More

August 8, 2018 @ 11:51 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The latest cybersecurity report from Accenture says that, “nation-state-sponsored cyberattacks (emanating from Iran have) grown, and this is likely to continue.” The report also claims that Iranian hackers are becoming more adept at cyberattacks involving cryptocurrencies, including mining malware attacks (where hackers create “botnets” of… Read More

August 8, 2018 @ 11:30 am By Cali Haan  |  

The SEC (Securities Exchange Commission) announced yesterday that it will take a full 90 days to decide on a rule change that may permit VanEck SolidX to take a Bitcoin ETF to market. The latest request for a rule change came from the Chicago Board… Read More

August 8, 2018 @ 9:33 am By Cali Haan  |  

Relatively loose Japanese laws designed to facilitate the use of cryptocurrencies at the retail level will soon be revised to reflect their actual use as speculative investments, Japan Times reports. Initial laws enshrined in April 2017 made Japan was one of the first powerhouse economies… Read More

August 7, 2018 @ 10:22 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A Japanese bank that allegedly allowed notorious failing cryptocurrency exchange Mt Gox to continue accepting deposits while simultaneously freezing withdrawals is once again appealing a ruling that allowed a class action suit to proceed against the bank in the US, Finance Feeds reports. The bank,… Read More

August 7, 2018 @ 9:07 pm By Cali Haan  |  

An overwhelming majority of bitcoin transactions are taking place between speculators, says Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Agent Lilita Infante. Infante told Bloomberg recently that in the five years since she began doing forensics on Bitcoin’s immutable ledger, the ratio of illegal activity she detects being… Read More

August 7, 2018 @ 12:56 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Researchers at digital security firm Duo Security claim to have uncovered, “a sophisticated cryptocurrency scam botnet consisting of at least 15,000 bots,” broadcasting cryptocurrency giveaway and other scams on Twitter. The company made the claim in a paper released yesterday, two days ahead of a… Read More

August 7, 2018 @ 11:23 am By Cali Haan  |  

Wall Street Journal writers Paul Vigna and Shane Shifflett claim to have identified 175 coordinated crypto “pump and dump” groups manipulating crypto markets in their favour. The journalists analyzed data and online communications of traders from January of this year to July and identified 121… Read More

August 6, 2018 @ 10:24 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Investors alleging that the CEO of Sky Mining, Le Minh Tam, defrauded them of $36 million dollars are continuing their fight for restitution, this time in the form of a petition at Change.org. The petition lists Tam’s passport number and claims he solicited contributions of… Read More

August 6, 2018 @ 9:13 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Proponents like Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak and former Wall Street analyst Tone Vays envision a world united by single digital currency: Bitcoin. But a new report from UBS, Switzerlands’s largest banking conglomerate, suggests that Bitcoin has a long way… Read More

August 6, 2018 @ 8:07 pm By Cali Haan  |  

“Data Issues” on CoinMarketCap.com over the weekend badly skewed crypto coin price data on at the popular website over the weekend, causing a flurry of confusion on CryptoTwitter. CoinMarketCap attributed the issues to problems with the data feed emanating off coins linked to the controversial… Read More

August 6, 2018 @ 12:13 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bitmain, the world’s largest manufacturer of crypto mining equipment and its biggest producer of bitcoins has announced the launch of a $500-million data centre in Rockdale, Texas. The company says it will deploy the sum over 7 years and will create 400 local jobs in the… Read More

August 4, 2018 @ 9:59 am By Cali Haan  |  

Josh Metnick, the CEO of Random Crypto, a company offering a new tool for calculating the profitability of crypto mining, says that similar calculators are failing to show the truth about mining proof-of-work cryptocoins like Bitcoin: that doing so is usually only profitable for very… Read More

August 3, 2018 @ 5:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A LocalBitcoins seller in Arizona has been sentenced to 41 months’ imprisonment (with credit for time served) after being convicted by a jury of trading bitcoins for drug money. According to a release from the Arizona District Attorney’s Office, federal agents began investigating Thomas Mario… Read More

August 3, 2018 @ 4:46 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A major announcement today from the owner of the New York stock exchange conveyed by Fortune magazine is being viewed as something of a blockbuster in crypto circles. Jeffry Sprecher, founder and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), is seeking approval for a venture ICE is… Read More

August 3, 2018 @ 10:01 am By Cali Haan  |  

Cryptocurrencies are hard to value, says the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics, and for this reason, candidates running for office in the state may not accept donations of cryptocurrency, News Observer reports. A Republican candidate seeking to represent House District 41 in… Read More

August 3, 2018 @ 9:16 am By Cali Haan  |  

Jimmy Wales told Business Insider this week that Wikipedia, the crowdsourced encyclopedia he founded in 2001 with partner Larry Sanger, has “zero interest” in and will “absolutely never” raise money by initial coin offering (ICO). The site will continue to run on donations and volunteer… Read More

August 2, 2018 @ 5:02 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Operators of the Walltime cryptocurrency exchange in Brazil have won a preliminary injunction forcing Caixa Economia Federal (bank) to restore Walltime’s access to its account, Portal Do Bitcoin reports. According to Walltime lawyer Graziela Brandão, Caixa Economia Federal shuttered the Walltime account without notice or… Read More