According to research conducted by UK cyber crime investigation firm Digital Shadows and reported in The Next Web, cyber criminals have managed to generate around $332,000 in Bitcoin from an email-based blackmail scam. These funds…
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Wilsons Auction House in the UK will be hosting a cryptocurrency auction for roughly 315 coins. The coins are spread across Bitcoin, Bitcoin Gold, and Bitcoin Cash. A full day long, the auction will begin…
A new startup called CasperLabs has launched with the aim of building a new blockchain based on a version of proof-of-stake (PoS), the experimental consensus protocol most associated with ethereum. Ethereum Foundation researcher Vlad Zamfir…
David Stockman, who served as the late US President Ronald Reagan’s top economic adviser, says a day of reckoning has arrived for the stock market. Stockman believes a recession is imminent and that a “bad…
Ebang, the third largest mining equipment producer, plans to make at least 400,000 of its Ebit mining rigs in 2019. The company commands a 9.2% share of the global mining hardware market, lying behind only Bitmain and…
Bitcoin is once again beginning to creep towards its strong resistance level at $4,000 following a relatively involatile trading session over the past couple of days. Although BTC has seen some incredibly bullish momentum over…
Travel and transport using crypto are becoming increasingly accessible options as blockchain finds its way into more industries. For bitcoin specifically, traveling on the world’s first cryptocurrency is a way to push the currency to…
Institutional investors are finally wading into crypto. Want proof? The University of Michigan’s $12 billion endowment said it could increase its investment in a crypto-network technology fund managed by American venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Financial terms…
An IBM executive is unfazed by the current market realities, saying he sees Bitcoin (BTC) reaching a value of $1 million as a present possibility. Jesse Lund, vice president of Blockchain and Digital Currencies at…
On February 21, 2019, peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace Paxful announced a partnership with trading platform BitMart for the purpose of vastly increasing the latter’s liquidity and scalability. In a company statement, Paxful claimed that this project…
