Tagged: bitcoin

April 18, 2019 @ 8:42 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Winklevoss twins have reached a settlement with Charlie Shrem in the case they brought against him last November claiming he stole $61 000 USD of their funds and used them to buy 5000 Bitcoins in 2012. While details of the settlement are not publicly… Read More

April 18, 2019 @ 2:06 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Three New Jersey men have been indicted in what the New York District Attorney claims is the largest seizure of illicit pills ever executed in New Jersey State. The accused, Chester Anderson, 44, Jarrette Codd, 41, and Ronald McCarty, 51, allegedly ran drug “store fronts”… Read More

April 13, 2019 @ 4:00 pm By Xu Gao  |  

China Implements First National Standard for Insurance Sector On April 11th, China has implemented its first national standard for the insurance industry. The national standard incorporates 817 entries of professional terms, serving as a fundamental standard for various terms in the insurance sector, according to… Read More

April 13, 2019 @ 10:58 am By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers have launched a 140 000-machine botnet DoS (denial of service) attack against servers hosting popular Bitcoin wallet service Electrum, Hard Fork reports, and millions of dollars of Bitcoins have already been stolen from Electrum wallet users as a result. Electrum is a bitcoin “hot… Read More

April 13, 2019 @ 10:15 am By Cali Haan  |  

Two of three Romanian cybercriminals who targeted American citizens and businesses from abroad in elaborate cybercrime schemes initiated in 2007 have been convicted in Ohio. Bogdan Nicolescu, 36, and Radu Miclaus, 37, will be sentenced August 14th after being found guilty of 21 counts of… Read More

April 12, 2019 @ 7:26 am By Cali Haan  |  

Jacob Burrell Campos, 22, from Rosarito, Mexico, has been sentenced to two years in prison and will forfeit $823,357 “in illicit profits” after being convicted of running an unlicensed money transmission business, that, “…(sold) hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin to over 1,000 customers throughout… Read More

April 11, 2019 @ 3:27 pm By Cali Haan  |  

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has reportedly added cryptocurrency mining to, “a revised list of industries it wants to encourage, restrict or eliminate,” Reuters reports. Cryptocurrency mining appears on the list along with 450 other industrial activities the NDRC says should be, “phased out… Read More

April 11, 2019 @ 1:42 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Julian Assange, the controversial founder of the transparency group Wikileaks, was arrested by British police and removed from the Ecuadorian embassy early this morning. A statement from London’s Metropolitan Police reported by the Washington Post indicates that Assange was, “arrested on behalf of the United… Read More

April 11, 2019 @ 8:23 am By Cali Haan  |  

A 24-year-old hacker who used malware-disseminating ads on porn sites to lock millions of computers and extort cryptocurrency ransoms received a six-year prison sentence this week in London, The Register reports. According to The Birmingham Mail, the accused, Zain Qaiser, “worked for an international Russian… Read More

April 7, 2019 @ 11:31 am By Cali Haan  |  

The price of Bitcoins made a newsworthy jump of 20% last Monday morning, and that gain is still holding, but the lean early months of 2018 saw a second round of layoffs at Hut 8, “Canada’s largest cryptocurrency miner,” CBC reports. Hut 8 runs 85… Read More

April 6, 2019 @ 8:51 am By Cali Haan  |  

Though Bitcoin’s much-reported recent reawakening from its 15-month slumber may entice certain investors into the fray, wealth manager Peter Mallouk warns that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies remain poor investments, CNBC Make It reports.  “What we’re going to see, most likely, is, we’re going to see… Read More

April 5, 2019 @ 11:15 am By Cali Haan  |  

A new batch of “sextortion” emails are making the rounds, says cybersecurity firm Trustwave, and the latest scam has two unique features. Sextortion spam may be randomly distributed or sent deliberately to high net worth individuals or people known to have or likely to have… Read More

April 5, 2019 @ 7:47 am By Cali Haan  |  

An alleged drug dealer from the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, who pleaded guilty in December to using Bitcoins to buy drugs and a gun on the Dark Net, has had the bulk of his Bitcoins seized this week by a Toronto court, The Toronto Star… Read More

April 5, 2019 @ 7:19 am By Cali Haan  |  

Amit Bhardwaj, accused of masterminding an elaborate Bitcoin-based $300 million Ponzi scam that spanned 90 countries, has been granted interim bail in India, Inc42 reports. Bhardwaj’s lawyer, Deepak Prakash told the outlet, “… Amit Bhardwaj has been granted interim bail based on…health ground(s).” The accused reportedly… Read More

April 3, 2019 @ 7:24 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Pakistan legislators introduced proposed laws to regulate Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs) at a ceremony held at State Bank of Pakistan offices Monday in Islamabad, The Tribune reports. The rules were reportedly created at the behest of the country’s Financial Action Task Force and are intended to… Read More

April 3, 2019 @ 9:59 am By Cali Haan  |  

An anonymous trader who recently placed $100 million USD worth of concurrent Bitcoin buy orders on Coinbase, Kraken and Bitstamp probably triggered a ‘frenzy’ of automated buys, a source to Reuters claims. These factors contributed to Bitcoin’s recent price jump of up to 20% on… Read More

April 2, 2019 @ 9:18 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Despite raising only a few thousand dollars in bitcoins thus far, Hamas, a militant organization that has fought for years to restore Palestine, is continuing to encourage supporters to make donations using cryptocurrencies, Forbes reports. Israeli press outlets initially sounded the alarm about Hamas crypto… Read More

April 2, 2019 @ 10:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global cryptocurrency platform Liquid announced on Tuesday it has launched its own leveraged Bitcoin Contract-for-Difference (CFD) product, known as Liquid Infinity. According to Liquid, Liquid Infinity is a highly leveraged Bitcoin CFD that will allow traders to speculate on the price movements of Bitcoin against… Read More

April 2, 2019 @ 7:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Is Bitcoin back? That depends on who you talk to. The worlds most popular cryptocurrency, at least by market cap, is hovering around USD $5000 for the first time in months. Just a few days ago, Bitcoin was closer to $4000. The increase in price… Read More

March 30, 2019 @ 6:08 am By Cali Haan  |  

Prosecutors in Japan have decided not to appeal a Tokyo court’s decision to acquit disgraced former Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange CEO Mark Karpeles on charges of embezzlement, Mainichi reports. Carpeles was, however, found guilty of manipulating Mt. Gox bitcoin trade data between February and September… Read More