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The USDT stablecoin issuer says it received a $23 million ransom demand payable by Monday. The deadline has since passed, and Tether isn't paying. origin »
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Just days after the conclusion of its long-running feud with the Office of the Attorney General of New York, Tether says it is now a victim of an extortion attempt. According to the stablecoin issuer, the blackmailers are threatening to release documents they claim “will harm the bitcoin ecosystem” if their demand for the payment […]
2021-3-2 15:15 | |
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Эмитент крупнейшего по капитализации стейблкоина Tether (USDT) сообщил о попытке вымогательства 500 BTC (~$23 млн на момент написания). Today we also received a ransom demand for 500 BTC to be sent to bc1qa9f60pved3w3w0p7snpxlnh5t4uj95vxn797a7.
2021-3-1 09:49 | |
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Stablecoins like Tether (USDT), directly pegged to the US dollar, require minimal price fluctuations. Since Tether claims that each US dollar physically backs each USDT, this increase in Tether production may show an increase in demand for stablecoins as a whole.
2021-2-11 23:21 | |
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Ethereum is the biggest development platform in the crypto industry, but its inability to scale and meet demand is beginning to take its toll. Due to the growing fees, the TRON blockchain has become a much more popular network — useful not only for buying TRX, but also for small Tether (USDT) transactions.
2021-1-22 13:32 | |
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Tether’s market cap is ready to breach $25 billion. At the beginning of this year, the market cap of Tether was just over $21 billion, and at the start of Dec. , it was $19. 1 billion, as per CoinGecko.
2021-1-12 17:53 | |
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Since the beginning of 2020, the number of Tether addresses with a positive balance tripled, and the emission of all stablecoins taken together exceeded $20 billion.
2020-10-3 18:34 | |
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The crypto derivatives section of Huobi Group, Huobi Futures has announced that starting September 1st, it will offer Bitcoin Options trading. In a blog post, Huobi Futures stated that Bitcoin options will be quoted in the dollar-pegged Tether (USDT).
2020-9-1 18:16 | |
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Bitcoin is now trading close to $12,000, a level which it breached and broke below two times over the past two weeks. Will it be third time lucky for the world's top cryptocurrency? Since breaking The post How is Tether helping Bitcoin's demand? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-8-16 21:30 | |
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The global economic uncertainties induced by the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for time-tested stores of value, including precious metals such as gold, and silver, among others. At the same time, this demand has cascaded into the cryptocurrency industry, however, not in the way as one might think.
2020-7-27 21:35 | |
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The price of gold and Tether’s XAUT rallied to more than $1,900 today, a value not seen since September 2011.
2020-7-27 06:09 | |
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Tether (USDT) becomes the latest cryptocurrency to hit ten-digit market capitalization
2020-7-16 17:29 | |
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Stablecoins have played a very crucial part in the cryptocurrency ecosystem over the past few years, with the altcoins acting as significant drivers in terms of crypto-adoption. In fact, Tether, the mThe post Tether's demand may be at the behest of arbitrage opportunities appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-7-10 17:00 | |
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The Tether (USDT) stablecoin briefly crossed $10 billion in market cap on June 30, continuing its trend of usage and growth in 2020. The token has been criticized by the cryptocurrency community for excessive minting, but the team has said that this has been in response to high demand.
2020-7-3 10:45 | |
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Despite controversy over its issuance, Tether has recently seen its market cap hit $10...
The post Tether hits $10bn market cap as DeFi drives demand appeared first on Coin Journal.
2020-7-2 17:08 | |
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Some days, it would appear if the entire cryptocurrency community is upset about Tether. Rather than burning coins, the supply seemingly keeps increasing every so often. It is only normal to see people start to question what is going on exactly.
2020-5-31 15:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency market saw a huge chunk of its gains wiped out by the Black Thursday crash back in March. However, in all the ensuing chaos, stablecoins were the asset class that emerged winners.
2020-5-27 20:30 | |
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Tether, the oldest and largest stablecoin tied to the U.S dollar, has fallen below par value for the longest stretch since bitcoin dropped to 12-month lows in March.
2020-5-19 21:47 | |
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Tether issues 120 mln USDT to meet the overwhelming demand for stablecoins
2020-4-28 22:19 | |
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Many commentators in the cryptocurrency space are writing that there has been an unprecedented increase in demand for USD-backed stablecoins. However, only the Tether Treasury seems to be printing more of its stablecoin at this point.
2020-4-27 17:10 | |
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The Bitcoin (BTC) price spikes two percent as Tether prints $120 mln USDT to address future demand
2020-4-22 22:14 | |
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The demand for stablecoins has reached record levels, prompting the world’s largest producer to keep on minting them. Tether has hit an all-time high in terms of market capitalization and has been trading at a premium on some exchanges.
2020-4-20 00:15 | |
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The US central bank is not the only money printer in the world. The crypto industry has its own version of the Fed in the form of Tether Treasury, which continues to churn out new tokens and increase supply.
2020-4-19 04:15 | |
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Digital asset markets have been gathering some gains during the last few days and tokens like stablecoins have seen massive demand since the start of the market carnage. Alongside stablecoins, gold-backed digital assets like Tether Gold, Pax Gold, and Digix Gold have seen tremendous trade volumes as well.
2020-4-8 23:45 | |
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We are about to end March, a month that saw the price of bitcoin hitting $3,850 and ready to end the quarter with over 10% losses. With these losses, Bitcoin will make a red quarter hattrick while BTC price hovers around $6,400.
2020-4-1 20:19 | |
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For the past week, Tether Treasury has been more active than ever before. On Tuesday alone, it minted another 180M USDT. Tether is either experiencing a surge of demand or it is desperately trying to prop up the price of Bitcoin—depending on who you ask.
2020-3-25 10:15 | |
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The demand for stablecoins has been on an uptrend in the past week surging Tether’s market cap to over $5.7 billion. As it stands, more than $480 million have been minted within the past weeks. These figures may continue rising especially with the move to leverage BCH’s Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP). The SLP is basically […]
2020-3-20 18:05 | |
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Stablecoins have seen massive volume and growth this month especially after the market carnage on March 12. Per usual, tether has been the king of stablecoins following the market downturn, but the 4.
2020-3-16 04:50 | |
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Tether is expecting a new wave of demand. The largest stablecoin minted another 60,000,000 USDT, which will be entering markets shortly. Tether Treasury has just done an ‘inventory replenish’ to meet upcoming demand.
2020-2-25 18:45 | |
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Major traders are reporting that they can’t go long on Binance at the moment because the exchange is out of Tether (USDT). In what may be a first, Binance seems to be running out of Tether and can’t meet demand on its margin trading services.
2020-2-13 01:53 | |
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The team at Coinmetrics has just released their latest findings on Tether, and its new all-time high velocity is not the only interesting thing they’ve discovered. Each USDT Token is Traded Approx 46 Times Per Year A study of USDT turnover reveals just how crazy the demand for Tether’s stablecoin is.
2020-1-31 17:00 | |
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A lot of people were taken aback by Tether issuing a digital gold-backed token. The trading of XAUT on Bitfinex has begun, albeit demand is virtually non-existent. It is very different to “gamble” on the value of a token tied to gold.
2020-1-26 02:00 | |
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According to a Bloomberg report published on January 22, 2020, premier stablecoin Tether (USDT) is witnessing a strong surge in demand by small merchants primarily based out of Asia and Europe. Tether Experiences Surprising Adoption Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) have existed for more than a decade now but their real-world adoption is still minuscule comparedRead MoreRead More.
2020-1-23 18:00 | |
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Despite a controversial back and forth with Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General's Office, Tether has managed to remain popular and dominate the digital asset market in 2019. The demand for TethThe post Tether's distribution dominated by 119 addresses holding 64% of circulating USDT appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-12-14 22:30 | |
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A Canadian cryptocurrency ATM operator, Instacoin, has added stablecoins such as Tether to its machines due to high customer demand. The controversial Tether is joining the following stablecoins that investors can pull from the ATM: Both the multi-collateral and single-collateral Dai (DAI) USD Coin (USDC) Paxos (PAX) Gemini Dollar (GUSD) TrueUSD (TUSD) Instacoin Allows Buying […] The post Instacoin ATMs Add Support for Six Stablecoins Including Tether appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2019-12-13 13:32 | |
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The turnover and volumes of Tether (USDT) boomed in the past days, while the market was crashing. USDT volumes are now above $31 billion, as sell-offs boosted the demand for stablecoins. Tether in the Top 4 USDT is now the fourth largest coin by market capitalization, lining up at the top as other assets slid.
2019-11-25 13:00 | |
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The Ethereum network now carries more 2-3x more Tether in its ERC-20 form than the native ETH asset. The reason for this is record-high activity of the new type of stablecoin, as demand for arbitrage and the movement of funds continues to grow significantly.
2019-11-13 17:26 | |
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On Friday, the US Fed Reserve conducted QE by printing $75 bln and $53 bln earlier in the week, making the crypto community expect the Bitcoin price to surge soon
2019-9-22 14:47 | |
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Controversial stablecoin Tether is growing rapidly. The market cap of the cryptocurrency has doubled since January and now sits at a cool $4 billion dollars. What’s driving the demand for Tether?
2019-9-3 15:05 | |
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Tether Holdings, the firm that issues tether (USDT), has plans to launch an offshore Chinese yuan stablecoin called CNHT. Tether’s digital dollar presence within the crypto economy has been massive in recent months, seeing significant demand from China.
2019-8-31 01:59 | |
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Tether, Inc. has proposed the creation of a new stablecoin backed by Chinese yuan, to take advantage of China’s demand for trading and crypto transfers.
2019-8-22 11:47 | |
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The Bitcoin community was relishing in the coin’s performance recently. However, other crypto-enthusiasts appeared skeptical of the king coin’s growth. The suspicion of Tether and Bitfinex’s involvement in the said surge constantly did the rounds, and with Tether Treasury printing USDT in the name of swaps, this suspicion was strengthened in the community.
2019-7-6 13:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Over the past three months, the bitcoin price has risen from $3,911 to $8,120 against the U. S. dollar on major crypto exchanges, demonstrating strong momentum supplemented with a clear rise in volume.
2019-6-13 10:35 | |
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The crypto community has been laser focused on the current dilemma between Bitfinex exchange and New York prosecutors over the alleged loss of $850 million of co-mingled customer and corporate funds.
2019-5-7 22:15 | |
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Tron (TRX) prices ranging Justin Sun postpones USDT rewards in light of USDT troubles Technically, Tron (TRX) is in an uptrend, but before 4 cents, bulls must clear 3. 1 cents. Spurring that may be fundamentals, but with Justin Sun postponing USDT rewards, it may be a while before TRX demand rise.
2019-5-1 22:00 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether’s legal counsel has written a response to the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) ex parte order, which claims that Bitifinex used Tether’s reserves to cover some $850 million in losses.
2019-5-1 01:22 | |
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Tether breaks its pegged USD price while its alternatives are gaining momentum. All major stablecoins are trading above the $1.00 mark
2019-4-27 21:05 | |
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Tether, the dollar pegged stable coin, has just printed out $300 million worth of USDT as demand for the crypto-currency keeps growing. Some $800 million has been added to Tether’s...
2019-4-25 14:25 | |
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In a continued addition of liquidity, USDT coins are flowing out, emptying the treasury wallet, showing increasing demand on Asian exchanges.
2019-4-16 12:23 | |
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As Bitcoin price surged over 27 percent in the past week, traders in China are paying a markup for Tether stablecoins, which offer an easy way to buy cryptocurrencies. Tether Offers China The Easiest Way to Buy Bitcoin Cryptocurrency traders in China are starting to wake up.
2019-4-8 11:30 | |
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Сообщение French Police Rescue Kidnapped Father of Crypto Millionaire in High-Stakes Ransom Raid появились сначала на Coinstelegram.
Euler Finance, after paying 0 ether as ransom, has demanded the hacker to return 90% of the stolen funds or they would take legal action. The hacker made away with $196M.
Reports emerged that hackers have demanded bitcoin as ransom from users of vulnerable cameras sold by Amazon and its subsidiary Ring. Bitcoin is constantly being used as a means of extracting payment, blackmailing people, and demanding ransom in exchange for data.
Karem Albayrak, a self-proclaimed hacker who somehow got access to 300 million iPhones, pleaded guilty to blackmailing Apple. 150 Iphone Accounts Deleted Per Minute Back in March 2017, The Hacker News and many other news media published reports of a hacker threatening to remotely wipe 300 million iPhones, unless Apple pays the ransom.
The Argentinian government has been hit with a Bitcoin ransomware attack. According to the latest information, the hacker demanded 50 BTC to withdraw the attack. For all the positive changes that cryptocurrencies have brought in the last few years, there are still those who would use them to harm others.
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.