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Ford promised us an electric version of its F-150 truck was on the way back in 2017, but it’s been mostly silent on the matter since. Though the vehicles is still years from launch, today the company came out in a big way, showing a prototype electric F-150 towing a train weighing over a million pounds.
2019-7-24 20:30 | |
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Robinhood has raised a colossal $323 million in its latest funding efforts, making the millennial-focused stock-and-crypto trading app worth approximately $7. 6 billion. Despite its mainstream appeal, the “no commission” broker is still worth less than Bitcoin-focused Coinbase, which boasts a valuation of more than $8 billion.
2019-7-22 22:59 | |
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In case anyone still needed convincing that esports is truly massive, the Dota 2 tournament to be held next month just accrued over $30 million in prize money. That’s the largest pot ever offered for such a competition, and judging by the amount it’s increased in just the last few months, it’s going to be even more massive this time next year.
2019-7-23 20:24 | |
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Recent reports have put the spotlight on Ripple Labs and how much the firm surprisingly earned, in the middle of the biting bear market that rocked the cryptosphere in 2018. According to the study, Ripple Labs successfully pocketed over $700 million, proceeds from dumping their XRP tokens to the firm’s investors.
2019-7-19 00:36 | |
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Two years have passed since cybersecurity wild-man John McAfee first told the world he would eat his own dick if his Bitcoin price prediction didn’t come true — and things still aren’t looking good.
2019-7-17 17:32 | |
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Munroe College in Manhattan has been hit by a ransomware attack that has shut down the college’s computer systems. The hackers are demanding 170 bitcoin (BTC), which is roughly $1. 9 million. The malware infection came to light on the morning of July 10, but the specifications of the infection are still largely unknown, as reportedRead MoreRead More.
2019-7-15 13:00 | |
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Bears showed up en masse to administer a proper beatdown to Bitcoin price today. Where do we go from here? Big Players Orchestrate a ShakeOut On Sunday bears launched a coordinated assault on Bitcoin price which resulted in the price dropping below $10,000 for the first time since July 2.
2019-7-15 08:07 | |
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Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint, owned by Remixpoint, halted all operations on Friday, July 12. The exchange lost $32 million worth of cryptocurrency in a hack. Bitpoint Clients Lose $22.
2019-7-12 17:00 | |
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Ripple’s XRP continues to struggle to stay above $0. 40, a key support position for the altcoin. Recent movements from Bitcoin and Ethereum, the only two larger cryptocurrencies by market cap, would suggest that the asset is having a prosperous year.
2019-7-10 00:43 | |
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Max Keiser is well-known for his bullish, and sometimes outrageous, bitcoin price predictions. It was only a few days ago that the self-described "tweet poet" endorsed John McAfee’s $1 million bitcoin price prediction, and now he is doubling, or rather tripling down on his own $100,000 estimate.
2019-7-10 21:42 | |
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In recent months, we’ve seen quite a few reports of the Google Play Store hosting counterfeit apps that are designed to dupe users and earn money through ad farms. In the latest reveal, CSIS Security Group’s report suggests that a fake app – promising updates for Samsung phones – has been installed by over 10 million users.
2019-7-5 10:46 | |
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The CEO of the OneCoin cryptocurrency scam, Konstantin Ignatov, will have to undergo trial while still in custody. The New York Southern District Court’s Judge Edgardo Ramos denied a bond application filed by Ignatov despite the top leader of the cryptocurrency scam having proposed attractive release conditions, as first ported by Finance Feeds.
2019-6-30 17:45 | |
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Bitcoin peer-to-peer (P2P) exchange Bisq witnessed a new record in weekly volume hitting $6. 1 million last week. The demand for local cash transactions is still high and, with world popular platform LocalBitcoins banning cash transactions, new players are likely to conquer the market share of local P2P trades.
2019-6-29 17:00 | |
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While the cryptocurrency prices are swinging in all directions these days, some things will never change in this industry. Exchanges are still being targeted by hackers and criminals, with some efforts being more successful than others.
2019-6-28 19:08 | |
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The Bitcoin price suffered a brutal pullback yesterday, but longtime crypto bull Max Keiser remains confident that the flagship cryptocurrency could still achieve a jaw-dropping $1 million target.
2019-6-28 17:50 | |
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Disgraced football coach Mark “Bomber” Thompson has admitted to abusing crystal meth and obsessively trading cryptocurrency for 12 hours a day in the lead-up to his arrest, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
2019-6-26 15:04 | |
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Tether’s parabolic rise has started to show signs of weakness, after $80 million disappeared from the USDT market over the weekend. Is this an early indication that Bitcoin could be next? Let’s take a look.
2019-6-25 19:00 | |
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Ripple has been putting in lots of work to win over as many customers as possible across the financial sector. Many of these new customers joining RippleNet have been banks and other financial institutions like Western Union and MoneyGram.
2019-6-22 16:24 | |
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Ripple has just inked a partnership with Moneygram in its quest to expand its market reach. The company has invested around $50 million in Moneygram. In so doing, Ripple means to shore up the adoption of XRP and take the crypto mainstream, especially considering that Moneygram serves a large user base that would benefit from […] The post Partnership Triggers Over 170% Surge For MoneyGram But Ripple’s XRP Still In Decline appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2019-6-19 17:02 | |
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The crypto space is an active sector. Numerous rich people have bought into it and invested vast proportions of their wealth in cryptocurrencies. However, there still remains one largely thorny issue plaguing the crypto world, and that’s the issue of security.
2019-6-16 23:55 | |
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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, which has about 330 million users worldwide, has named the reasons why bitcoin is capable to become the global currency of Internet in the long term.
2019-6-18 17:15 | |
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Facebook has begun assembling a who’s who of big tech companies to back its soon to be unveiled cryptocurrency, GlobalCoin. The likes of Mastercard, Visa, Uber, and PayPal are all backing the social media giant’s upcoming digital coin due to be unveiled later this month, and officially rolled out next year, reports The Wall St Journal.
2019-6-14 11:49 | |
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Bitcoin is not free from the threat of government interference, ‘The Bitcoin Standard’ author Saifedean Ammous warned mainstream media this week. Ammous: BTC Up 18 Million Percent Speaking in an interview with German finance magazine Boerse Online, Ammous, who is well known as one of the biggest active Bitcoin bulls, said that despite being technically unstoppable, Bitcoin still faces its enemies.
2019-6-3 17:00 | |
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By CCN: Remember the man who thought it was a good idea to raise the price of a life-saving HIV drug by more than 5,000 percent? The one who also thought it was a good idea to start a rap beef with the Wu-Tang Clan? He’s also the guy who tried to buy The Life Of Pablo for $15 million in bitcoin and claims to have spoken with Satoshi Nakamoto.
2019-6-3 20:00 | |
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The liquidators of hacked New Zealand crypto exchange Cryptopia say it owes over $2.7 million to creditors, while user losses are still unknown.
2019-5-31 12:31 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
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By CCN: The embarrassment for Tesla continued this week after a burned supplier sued Elon Musk’s firm over an unpaid metal bill. French firm Lebronze Alloys alleges $1. 77 is still owed by Tesla after the car company abruptly pulled the plug on existing contracts.
2019-5-30 12:54 | |
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By CCN: IBM’s head of blockchain Jesse Lund has reportedly left the company. Lund previously predicted the Bitcoin price could hit $1 million within our lifetime, citing the scarcity and growth of interest in the space.
2019-5-29 09:21 | |
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Things you can buy with bitcoin: AT&T’s services, airfare, pretty much anything using gift cards through Bitrefill, pizza, drugs (duh) and now, Indigenous Australian art.
2019-5-29 23:15 | |
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New Zealand crypto exchange Cryptopia was awarded provisional relief by a bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York. However, if it doesn't come up with $2 million, the Arizona-based company that stored its data could terminate its services, meaning Cryptopia could lose important US user information forever.
2019-5-28 19:40 | |
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By CCN: Who says millennials don’t like to save and invest their money? By building a commission-free stock brokerage and trading app with a slick interface, Robinhood has built a $7 billion business in just six years.
2019-5-25 05:00 | |
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By CCN: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao — who is still reeling after a $54 million bitcoin hack — is suing Sequoia Capital China, a unit of California-based venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. In his May 20 legal filing with the High Court in Hong Kong, Zhao claims Sequoia Capital China prevented him from raising capital between Dec.
2019-5-24 02:00 | |
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Cryptopia Hacker Still Moving Stolen Funds Around Recently, Cryptopia hit the news officially announcing that it had chosen Grant Thornton as official liquidators to begin its liquidation process. This was as a result of the hacks suffered by the New Zealand crypto currency exchange, causing it to lose at least $16 million. About a week […]
2019-5-22 18:44 | |
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The future is now, or at least that is it seems for Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency network in the market. While it is true that ETH lost a lot of its value since the network boomed in 2017, the company’s team is still pretty much confident that they will be able to organize the […]
2019-5-22 02:54 | |
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In its April 2019 Exchange Review, released on May 20, 2019, London-based crypto data analysis firm CryptoCompare found that fiat-to-crypto exchanges performed much better than crypto-to-crypto platforms did over the last month, as cryptocurrency prices rose across the board.
2019-5-21 20:48 | |
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The Bitcoin bull market is changing investor habits – but the vast majority of the supply has stayed in the same wallet since 2018. 10. 5 Million Bitcoins Dormant Analysis of data from BitInfoCharts and social media transaction monitoring resource Whale Alerts produced some interesting reading this week.
2019-5-20 18:00 | |
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Despite dropping by about $1,000, Bitcoin is still way ahead of even some of the most optimistic price projections and detailed price forecast models. Here is a look at how Friday’s ‘flash crash’ hasn’t derailed Bitcoin in the long term.
2019-5-19 23:00 | |
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The market has still not recovered from the Bitcoin debacle according to CoinMarketCap and a few coins could still be seen on the negative end. BCH, at press time, stood at the price of $357. 79 with a market cap of $6.
2019-5-19 20:30 | |
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Even thought it’s 2019, initial coin offering (ICO) exit scams are still being uncovered. The latest to surface has seemingly conned over $8 million from would-be investors. It appears that blockchain startups RepuX and JoyToken have conned investors out of $4.
2019-5-16 18:36 | |
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Michael Terpin, the Bitcoin investor who had $24 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen from him in a SIM-swapping hack, has been awarded a payout three-times the size of his original loss. Los Angeles Superior Court has ordered New York-based Bitcoin Bandit Nicholas Truglia to pay Terpin $74.
2019-5-13 17:18 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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Two of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, and Coinbase, have both seen around 1 million unique daily visits in April, with many believing Bitcoin’s latest price surge caused the websites’ visits to jump 13 and 27 percent, respectively.
2019-5-13 04:14 | |
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By CCN: Hackers who stole $44M from Binance are busy shifting the 7,074 bitcoin to seven wallets as they work to convert their bounty to fiat. Eagle-eyed analysts at London-based research team, Coinfirm, are tracking the stolen bitcoins, and have found the hackers have now spread them across seven digital wallet addresses.
2019-5-10 15:22 | |
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Modern slavery is unfortunately still part of our global reality, with more than 40 million people believed to be victims of human trafficking around the world. It’s up to governments, organizations, and society as a whole to battle this evil – and as we heard at TNW2019 Conference, data science can help.
2019-5-10 14:27 | |
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Hut 8 Mining (named after Hut 8 in Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing broke the enigma code and accelerated the end of World War II) has just filed its audited financial statements for 2018, detailing a tight but still profitable bitcoin mining business.
2019-5-10 20:04 | |
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News that one of the leading crypto exchanges and media darling, Binance was hacked burst forth as an explosion in crypto circles. The money stolen was comparatively low and far from record high but still amounted to a solid $40 million.
2019-5-9 18:20 | |
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Water is essential for life on Earth and is one of our most precious natural resources. But considering how our planet formed, it is quite surprising how much water we still have. The Earth aggregated from a cloud of gas and dust – a protoplanetary disk – and was incandescently hot for the first few million years.
2019-5-9 14:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency’s best-known figures continue to debate exchange Binance’s handling of its $40 million hack amid claims executives planned to undo past Bitcoin transactions. Binance CEO Rejects Reorg In a lengthy debate still playing out on social media, Binance received mixed reviews after CEO Changpang Zhao appeared to suggest there was a plan to conduct a reorganization (‘reorg’) of the Bitcoin blockchain.
2019-5-9 00:00 | |
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