2021-1-21 13:23 |
BTC whitepaper has been taken down from Bitcoincore by developers on demands of CSW, while Cobra refused to do so earlier on Bitcoin.org, here’s why
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eToro has sent a letter to its millions of customers on January 13, 2021, notifying them that it may not be able to handle their bitcoin (BTC) buy orders in the coming weekend, as the insatiable demand for the orange coin is surpassing its liquidity capacity.
2021-1-15 00:00 | |
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Recently, cryptocurrency trading in India has spiked and grown at an unprecedented level. As the Bitcoin rallies and grows strength by strength, the Indian crypto community has multiplied and with this, a fair and regulated market has been on the top of their demands.
2020-12-11 21:00 | |
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A leading insurance company in Israel, Shirbit has been hacked and the hackers demand 50 BTC or they will sell the data of its customers. The hackers posted a message on Telegram on Wednesday 2 December 2020 with details of the conditions for paying the ransom as posted by cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock on Twitter. […]
2020-12-4 15:16 | |
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Last week it emerged that travel management firm CWT paid a ransom demand of $4.5 million in Bitcoin. Initially, hackers had demanded $10 million to release the fix, saying this is likely cheaper than the legal action that would ensue if their demands aren’t met, not to mention the cost of the damage to the […]
2020-8-2 23:00 | |
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One bitcoin (BTC) exchange in the Netherlands is set to close business following demand for registration and ridiculous fees put in place by the Dutch central bank. Dutch Bitcoin exchange BitKassa has confirmed it will be shutting down its operations in the country this month.
2020-5-7 13:03 | |
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Billionaire Wissam Al Mana has demanded Facebook disclose the identities of the parties who used his image to promote a crypto scam
2020-3-26 02:15 | |
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Swedish government demands answers from Ukraine regarding a Kyiv-based alleged fraud scheme
2020-3-5 18:59 | |
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There’s a new extortion scam that targets Google AdSense serving websites and demands Bitcoin (BTC) in exchange for the prevention of an attack. This attack, according to the extortionist, would lead to the AdSense account of targeted users to be suspended or banned.
2020-2-18 00:44 | |
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A new email extortion scam demands BTC from AdSense users in exchange for preventing an attack
2020-2-18 20:38 | |
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A Dutch extortionist follows in the footsteps of the infamous "Jumbo bomber" by sending mail bombs and demanding Bitcoin (BTC) payments
2020-2-13 22:09 | |
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U. S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin remarked last week that a reported $1. 5 trillion in missing cash — mostly one hundred dollar bills — was “sitting in bank vaults all over the world.
2019-12-23 19:20 | |
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Finland is in preparations for a cyber warfare after a mysterious activist group has made cyberattack threats in which Bitcoin (BTC) ransoms are being demanded. The drills involved over 200 municipalities and public organizations in Finland.
2019-11-22 21:18 | |
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An anonymous message was recently received by the Russian Railways threatening to blow up stations if 50 bitcoins aren’t handed over. Police are investigating the matter. An anonymous entity is threatening Russian Railways with extreme violence if they do not forfeit 50 BTC.
2019-11-5 13:05 | |
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CME Group is a global market company that owns numerous exchanges in New York and Chicago. In December 2017, it launched the futures market for Bitcoin (BTC). After its initial success, the group announced that it will launch options trading for Bitcoin in Q1 of 2020.
2019-10-29 12:26 | |
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The prospect of a Bitcoin ETF came crashing down a few weeks back when the United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] rejected the last standing Bitcoin ETF application submitted by Bitwise Asset Management, on the grounds that a regulated ETF may lead to “manipulative acts and practices.
2019-10-24 22:30 | |
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David Marcus spoke to a group of established bankers in Washington this week, and he once again highlighted Facebook’s desire to launch the stablecoin as per regulatory demands. Marcus suggested that the core model of Libra can be changed if governments are unhappy with the current Libra prototype.
2019-10-21 13:00 | |
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Is the current industry landscape, where centralized exchanges dominate cryptocurrency trading volumes, about to change in the coming years? Europol predicts that international regulatory demands for identity verification on established venues will push privacy concerned traders into so-called ‘criminal’ services in the digital underground.
2019-10-15 21:30 | |
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With a little over six months left until the next Bitcoin halving, the mining rig industry is busting a gut to meet changing demands. This applies to Bitmain, Pangolin, Ebang, Innosilicon, and pretty much all other established brands in the trade.
2019-10-11 03:34 | |
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Losing your data sucks. It sucks even more when someone uses ransomware to maliciously encrypt your files and demands Bitcoin to ensure its safe return. But don’t worry, because there are things you can do to get one over on the cyberbaddies.
2019-9-26 13:08 | |
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Bitcoin may struggle to decide whether to trade above or below $10,000, but analysts are confident that the only way now is up. Bitcoin Still ‘Best Performing Asset In History’ As BTC/USD traded around $9950 on September 23, positive sentiment began building as theories compared current trends to Bitcoin’s recent lows of $3100.
2019-9-23 14:00 | |
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Arab Bank Switzerland joined the growing list of commercial banks to offer Bitcoin and Ethereum to its clients. The bank has partnered with blockchain technology company, Taurus, to help it set up and facilitate crypto-services, reported Swissinfo.
2019-9-19 12:04 | |
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Cryptocurrencies have the potential of revolutionizing the financial world soon. The only problem is that it is widely used for criminality and other illegal acts like drug trade and even human trafficking.
2019-9-9 21:05 | |
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Israel‘s Bitcoin fans have formally lodged a petition that demands the nation’s banks disclose internal policies for dealing with proceeds of cryptocurrency trading, Globes reports. The move follows a series of lawsuits filed against financial institutions that refuse to accept money generated by selling digital currency such as Bitcoin.
2019-8-20 19:19 | |
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it, and the long term of XRP demands preparation for a fall. The coin’s performance in the bull’s market has been bearish and with the fall of Bitcoin, the coin also registered a fall on August 14.
2019-8-18 21:14 | |
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Linking addresses to identities means not all Bitcoin (BTC) are created equal, and connections to dubious wallets and addresses may be a burden.
2019-8-14 13:32 | |
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Hacker demands 300 Bitcoin from Binance in lieu of alleged stolen KYC data
2019-8-10 17:31 | |
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An insidious new strain of Bitcoin ransomware adds insult to injury for its unfortunate victims, as it refuses to restore access to your data - even after you fork over the ransom payment. The malware, GermanWiper, tells victims it has encrypted their data, when in reality it has erased it completely.
2019-8-8 19:41 | |
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An insidious new strain of Bitcoin ransomware adds insult to injury for its unfortunate victims, as it refuses to restore access to your data – even after you fork over the ransom payment. The malware, GermanWiper, tells victims it has encrypted their data, when in reality it has erased it completely.
2019-8-9 19:41 | |
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A malicious hacker claims to have released Binance exchange customer data and that there’s more to come unless millions of dollars in bitcoin (BTC) is handed over. Binance has issued a statement denying that it...
2019-8-7 13:05 | |
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Binance promises a reward for helping identify a hacker who demands Bitcoin for the KYC photos that were allegedly stolen back in 2018
2019-8-14 12:53 | |
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News is emerging that the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, has been the victim of an attempted ransom demand from a scammer. The attacker threatened to release KYC information if the company did not cough up 300 Bitcoins.
2019-8-7 11:44 | |
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Craig Wright has a theory about why almost nobody will capitulate to his demands to be worshiped as Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. Standing on the wrong end of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit, he believes that his persona has led to attacks on him personally, as opposed to the ideas he has presented to the […] The post Craig Wright ‘Explains’ Why You Won’t Admit He Created Bitcoin appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-7-29 23:00 | |
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Folgory, the fully integrated app and trading exchange launches to bring a range of services to crypto users. The intellectual and logistical demands of trading crypto currency have hitherto been tricky at best, complex at worst.
2019-7-23 12:30 | |
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The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has just launched the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI). Its hope is to cut through the myths and provide unbiased and accurate real-time data for analysis.
2019-7-3 15:00 | |
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As Bitcoin (BTC) prices surge so do cases of deliberate attacks on public systems and demand for ransom payment in the coin increase. The post Bitcoin Soars, Cases Of BTC Ransom Demands Spike appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-6-22 23:18 | |
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By CCN Markets: Hackers who paralyzed Florida’s Riviera Beach City’s IT infrastructure are about to laugh all the way to the bank. This is after the Riviera Beach City Council voted to authorize the city’s insurer to meet the ransom demands of the hackers who planted ransomware in the city’s computer systems.
2019-6-21 18:29 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook is already under fire from regulators less than a day after officially revealing its cryptocurrency whitepaper. Based on three separate talks, it’s clear top government and bank officials from around the world are preparing to regulate Facebook Libra.
2019-6-19 03:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges will meet with the regulators who want to treat them like banks at the upcoming G20 Summit – but Bitcoin price has already shaken off concerns. FATF Meets Its Match As Bitcoinist reported last week, June 21 sees publication of new material from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) aimed at cryptocurrencies.
2019-6-17 15:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex on May 23, 2019, had a sigh of relief amidst the ongoing Tether (USDT) controversy as it won a partial block on demands for information from the New York Attorney General (NYAG) Office, Bloomberg reports.
2019-5-24 01:00 | |
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By CCN: We previously reported on Craig Wright’s legal actions against Peter McCormack, host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast. Wright claims McCormack engaged in libel by calling him a “fraud” for claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
2019-5-22 20:45 | |
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To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
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ProPublica reveals 89% increase from Q4 2018 to Q1 2019 in average ransomware payouts. Many recovery companies choose to pay out the hackers, though others still attempt to decrypt the data without paying.
2019-5-16 05:29 | |
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By CCN: NFL teams are getting pressure to pay their players in bitcoin, but so far they haven’t budged. It’s unclear why they would push back against a policy that would not only slash costs for the organization but would give NFL players an opportunity to begin saving and growing their earnings before retirement.
2019-5-15 02:30 | |
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Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) legal sparring in relation to $850 million in missing funds escalated with another round of court filings this past weekend.
2019-5-7 01:42 | |
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On April 28, the high profile Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit heated up when the plaintiffs alleged Craig Wright submitted forged evidence before the court. Following the recent response against Wright’s motion to dismiss the case, the plaintiffs also filed an order which demands a list of Wright’s public bitcoin addresses as of Dec.
2019-5-4 20:02 | |
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Google has announced its plan to add an auto-delete option for location history and web activity information on its blog, May 01, 2019. This comes as an acknowledgment to the rising demands for data privacy from its users.
2019-5-3 19:00 | |
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Global payment processing platform PayPal has been awarded a patent for a technique that can help with the timely detection and reduction of ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks are a form of malware that takes over the victim's computer, locks up the files therein and demands a ransom before the files can be accessed again — often to be paid in cryptocurrency.
2019-4-19 21:17 | |
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