Ethereum Wallet Drainer Steals $60M in Six Months

Hackers that stole more than $60 million worth of crypto in six months are using a piece of code to bypass security alerts after maliciously gaining access to a private key.

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Cryptocurrency Loans Go Big As Company Reveals $550M Half-Year Traffic

The cryptocurrency loans offshoot of just one firm saw through-flow of over half a billion dollars in its first six months on the market. ‘Incredibly Strong Reception’ That’s according to third quarter statistics released October 18th by Genesis Capital, a US-based over-the-counter trading firm.

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Crypto OTC Broker Genesis Processes $553 Million in Institutional Lending in Six Months

Over Half a Billion Dollars Processed Through Genesis Global Trading Loan Spin-off Within First Six Months A new report on October 18th revealed that Genesis Global Trading has been experiencing a substantial amount of success this year.

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After ten years, TNW Conference has a new home

Written by Wytze de Haan, Director of Events For our 14th edition, TNW Conference is moving to a new location! But before I tell you where we’re going, I’d like to share where we’ve been. I’ve worked at TNW for almost seven years now, which makes me a very “odd” millennial.

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50% of American WhatsApp users don’t know it’s owned by Facebook

Just over half of Americans (50. 42 percent) who have used WhatsApp in the last six months are unaware that it’s owned by Facebook. This, my friends, is a pretty high figure. The research was carried out by DuckDuckGo, the privacy-protecting search engine.

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6 reasons to invest in your 20s (when all you want to do is spend)

You’ve probably heard this a thousand times. If you aren’t investing yet, you should start soon. The truth is, you should have already started. When all you want to do is save up for six months, quit your job, and blow all your money backpacking around South America Motorcycle Diaries style, consider these six reasons first.

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Ethereum Classic (ETC) Can Easily End The Year Above $100

Ethereum Classic (ETC) is highly likely to trade north of $100 by end of the year. This does not require a very bullish Bitcoin (BTC). In fact, if Bitcoin (BTC) trades around $10,000, that would do the job for Ethereum Classic (ETC).

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Report: Google to launch censored Search in China despite denials

Google intends to launch a censored version of its Search app for China sometime in the next six to nine months, according to a leaked transcript from a private employee meeting held last month.

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Binance to Make Listing Fees Transparent, Give Proceeds to Charity

Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, said that it will make new cryptocurrency listing fees transparent and donate 100 percent of those fees to charity.

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Tron (TRX) Will Be Among Top Ten Cryptos In Six Months, Says CEO Justin Sun

CEO and founder of Tron, Justin Sun has expressed optimism on how he plans to take the Tron project to stardom within six months. Sun made this known in a telephone interview with Investopedia yesterday.

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Philippines to deport fugitives to South Korea for $33M Bitcoin scam

Filipino authorities have advanced on international criminals suspected of running a large-scale Bitcoin pyramid scheme. Authorities have detained two of the six individuals thought to have defrauded South Korean investors for over $33 million, while the others remain on the run.

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ICO crisis

“The rush for ICO is over, and the projects are still left” - market analysts concluded. At the beginning of 2018 the ICO projects mobilized more than $ 3 billion dollars monthly, and now, only six months later, the statistics has shown a rapid decrease of funds collection – $ 326 million per month, and that is 10 times less comparing with the beginning of the year.

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[promoted] How Invictus Capital Is Reshaping the Landscape of Cryptocurrency Investing

One of the impacts of the rapid, global advancement of digital asset markets has been seasons of volatility and turbulence. This creates a challenging environment for even the most astute investors in terms of managing cryptocurrency portfolios and investment strategies.

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Bitcoin Group SE Reports Half-Year Profit Surges 300% to $3.85 Million

German digital currency exchange Bitcoin Group SE reported on Friday a first-half net profit increase of more than 300% to €3. 32 million (~$3. 85 million USD). The company added 86,000 new accounts of people buying and selling cryptocurrency like bitcoin and bitcoin cash in the first six months of 2018.

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Bitmain IPO Prospectus Reveals Offering May Be a Gamble for Investors

Bitmain, the biggest company in bitcoin mining, has filed for its IPO in Hong Kong. As part of the approval process, the company submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong stock exchange at the end of August 2018.

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World’s Largest Crypto Mining Firm Bitmain Releases Financial Results, Plans To List In Hong Kong

The price of Bitcoin may have come tumbling down this year, but the world’s largest crypto mining hardware manufacturer has continued to rake in the big bucks. Bitmain released its financial results revealing that it had generated $2.

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Top 6 Projects Gaining the Most Market Cap Positions – Q3 2018 Ediiton

A lot of things have changed in the cryptocurrency world over the past six months. Many new coins have come to market, whereas some have almost disappeared into obscurity. The following currencies have noted the biggest gains in terms of overall market cap position over the past six months, as reported by Bitgur.

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A Snapshot of Cryptocurrency Forks Shows the Biggest Winners and Losers

Forking cryptocurrencies, usually Bitcoin or one of its offshoots, was all the rage 12 months ago. Today, the spate of new forks has dwindled to a trickle. With the benefit of hindsight, and armed with over a year’s worth of data, it’s possible to determine which forks succeeded and why.

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Top 6 Cryptocurrencies Losing Market Cap Positions – Q3 2018 Edition

As things change in the world of cryptocurrency, the market cap rankings are always interesting to keep an eye on. In the case of the following six projects, the past few months have been challenging.

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Brazil Investment CEO On Bitcoin Exchange Launch: ‘I’d Rather Crypto Didn’t Exist’

XP Group, owner of the largest investment firm in Brazil, XP Investimentos, confirmed it would launch a cryptocurrency exchange this week – despite its CEO saying he wished it “didn’t exist.

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In First Half of 2018, Japan Counts $540 Million Lost to Crypto Thefts

When Tokyo-based Mt. Gox got hacked to the tune of 650,000 bitcoin in 2014, Japan learned early on the tough lessons of cryptocurrency theft. Yet, to this day, despite the country’s ongoing efforts to educate investors and ramp up oversight of crypto exchanges, it still feels the sting of hackers.

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Japan Sees Rising Crypto Theft, $540 Million Stolen in First Six Months of 2018

Japan, often fondly referred to as the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’ has this year increasingly become the ‘Land of rising crypto theft,’ with a new report suggesting that the yen equivalent of $540 million has been stolen during the first six months of the year.

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Six Months of New Digital Policy: Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Belarus to Discuss Decree No.8

On October 10, Minsk will host Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Belarus, an event dedicated to blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The post Six Months of New Digital Policy: Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Belarus to Discuss Decree No.8 appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Japan lost over $540M in cryptocurrency hacks in first half of 2018

Hackers have swiped over $540 million (60 billion Yen) worth of cryptocurrency from Japanese netizens over the first six months of 2018. On September 20, Japan’s National Police Agency revealed the number of cryptocurrency-related reported incidents rose to 158 – triple the amount of incidents over the same period last year, local outlet The Asahi Shimbun reports.

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Latest TTC Protocol Development Progress

It has been about six months since the team released the first Whitepaper of TTC Protocol.

The post Latest TTC Protocol Development Progress appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Grin Is Hard Forking Every Six Months to Keep ASICs Off the Network

Amid crypto's war on ASICs, the Grin community is taking a new approach – shut them out for a limited time with consistent hard forks.

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Texas Man Sentenced to Jail after Being Found Guilty of $9 Million Crypto Fraud

A Texas man, formerly a citizen of Somer, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for his involvement in a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme worth $9 million. Homero Joshua Garza, the 33-year-old convict, will be put under three years of supervised release after his jail term ends.

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Crypto-Flashbacks: How the Media Pumped the ICO Known as Paycoin

Just recently Josh Garza was sentenced to 21 months of prison and six months of home confinement for his role in the many Ponzi scams like Gaw Miners, Zen Miners, Hashlets, and of course the controversial Paycoin that appeared in 2014.

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Josh Garza Sentenced to Prison and Fined $9M over GAW & Paycoin Scam

U. S. Attorney’s Office District of Connecticut has announced Homero Joshua Garza (Josh Garza) has been sentenced to “21 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, the first six months of which [Mr.

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Decred Price Analysis: Alterations to blockchain governance

Decred (DCR) provides an intriguing governance & network decision-making alternative to the clunky, informal systems used by traditional PoW powerhouses Bitcoin and Ethereum. The network's hashrate and transaction volumes have improved over the last six months, and despite bearish price movements DCR has not fallen as far from its all-time highs as the majority of other alt-coins

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EOS (EOS) And Other Coins Added To The Ledger Wallet

EOS is the latest coin to join the Ledger Wallet along with six other new coins. This marks the second round of new coins to be added to the popular Ledger platform in recent months. In addition to EOS, Ledger now offers support for Hycon (HYC), Fic Network (FIC), Pirl (PIRL), Rise (RISE) and Akroma (AKA), alongside the Ledger-backed cryptocurrency Waves (WAVES).

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Australia’s ASX Delays the Blockchain System Rollout by 6 Months

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) stated on Tuesday, September 4, 2018, that it will delay its transition to blockchain technology by six months to allocate more time towards user development and testing.

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ASX Extends CHESS Replacement with Blockchain by Six Months

Australian stock exchange operator ASX said that it would extend its replacement of the CHESS system with a blockchain platform by six months.

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Op Ed: Making Friends With Time in the Cryptocurrency Space

What follows is an open letter from Jimmy Zhong, co-founder and CEO of IOST, to his team members and shared with Bitcoin Magazine with permission. Recently, I’ve been thinking about an ultimate way of safely storing value — gold, Bitcoin, real estate and power all came to mind.

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Dash Retailers Rise in Numbers Despite Weak Market

Against a grim cryptocurrency market, the number of merchants accepting Dash has soared for the past six months, boosted by a solid Venezuelan adoption.

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After six months of investigation: suspects nabbed for $87 million Cryptocurrency theft

Many people in some quarters are beginning to trust the police in carrying out tough investigations to conclusion. Previously, what had been common was credit card hacking and online dating scams.

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Three Chinese Men In Custody Over $87M Cryptocurrency Theft

Police in China has detained three men suspected of pulling the country’s biggest ever cryptocurrency heist — worth 600 million yuan ($87 million).   Theft is China’s Biggest: Reports As multiple outlets report quoting local news publication Huashang News on August 19, authorities concluded an investigation spanning almost six months into three men who allegedly hacked a computer for Bitcoin and Ether.

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Top Bitcoin (BTC), Cardano (ADA), NEM (XEM), ZEN, NEO & DOGE Faucets

These Are Six of the Best Faucets to Keep Earning Cryptocurrencies During the last 8 months we have seen how Bitcoin moved from $20,000 to $5,900 dollars some time ago. In these months, we have seen how companies and other investors have been buying the dip and developing new and interesting applications. But if you […]

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British Virgin Islands Crypto Market Is Second Largest In The World

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is the second biggest cryptocurrency market in the world, statistics show. The BVI had a trading volume in crypto assets valued at $78. 5bn, in the first six months of 2018.

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Markets Manipulated By $825 Million In Six Months Through Surge In Pump & Dumps

The infamous pump and dump. We know it goes on and we know why people do it, sometimes though, the impact of a prolonged pump and dump scheme can be quite hard to measure. For those not familiar with the terminology, here’s a quick definition from Investopedia.

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Price Manipulation By A Group Has Generated $825 Million This Year

The cryptocurrency pump and dump that has trailed different cryptocurrency this year are induced price manipulation by a group for profit, as revealed by The Wall Street Journal. The manipulation that has taken place for the past six months has led to the generation of $825 million this year.

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Crypto Pump-and-Dump Turnover Reaches $825M in H1 2018 - Report

Cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes generated a turnover of $825 million in the first six months of 2018, according to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal.

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Pumpers Made $825 Million In Six Months Manipulating Cryptocurrency Market - WSJ

Trades on the largest cryptocurrency exchanges are manipulated by groups of scammers who use the "pump and dump" schemes forbidden in the traditional financial market.

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Buy! Buy! BYE! Crypto Traders’ Pump And Dump Price Manipulation Schemes

Pump groups feed millions of people in the business world, with price rises followed by rapid falls. So certainly dozens of trading groups are manipulating the price of cryptocurrencies on some of the largest online exchanges, generating at least $825 million in trading volume over the last six months, and hundreds of millions in losses […]

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Financial Report: Huge Sell-outs and Flash Blast Unease

Markets and Prices For more than six months of 2018, cryptocurrency markets have been extremely bearish considering the massive bull run in 2017. However, bitcoin markets and many other cryptocurrency values have started to slide and some traders and analysts believe the storm may get much worse. This has led some people to believe that

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Markets Update: Monster Liquidations and Flash Crash Fear

For more than six months of 2018, cryptocurrency markets have been extremely bearish considering the massive bull run in 2017. Last month many digital asset prices performed better than they had in months and some enthusiasts thought crypto markets might be on the mend.

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Global Changes in Emercoin Blockchain: SegWit, TX Optimizer, STUN and 13 More Updates

After six months of development, we are ready to release 16 updates that are coming to Emercoin blockchain. The post Global Changes in Emercoin Blockchain: SegWit, TX Optimizer, STUN and 13 More Updates appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Some Cryptos Trading 500% Higher on Bithumb, Market Manipulation Woes

Bithumb traders have recently experienced an abnormal surge in the price of some crypto, with tokens like Ethos trading six times over its average value only on the South Korean exchange. Many traders began to attribute these ludicrous prices to the Kimchi Premium, which local cryptocurrency traders have grown accustomed to over the most recent months.

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The Best and Worst Cryptocurrency Investments for the First Half of 2018

As far as cryptocurrency markets are concerned the last six months of 2018 has been the exact opposite of the 2017 bull run last year. A great majority of digital assets have lost between 60-90 percent of their values since the beginning of the year.

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