University campuses aren’t just producing new college graduates. They’re also churning out lots of cryptocurrency.
Security researchers at Cisco have been monitoring cryptocurrency mining across different industry verticals, and college campuses are …
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Following backlash, Coinbase to give former Hacking Team employees the boot
Hey, look at that. A cryptocurrency exchange has decided to do the right thing – albeit belatedly, and only after a sustained public outcry.
The San Francisco-based exchange Coinbase announced on March 4 it had agreed to part ways with several new employees holding a particular grisly distinction: Namely, that they previously worked for the incredibly shady Italian spyware company Hacking Team.
Hacking Team, for those not in the know, has been accused of selling spyware to governments with dismal human rights records. For example, the Ethiopian government allegedly used Hacking Team tools to target journalists in the U.S. Read more…
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View More Following backlash, Coinbase to give former Hacking Team employees the bootEthereum upgrade goes live on second try
A big upgrade for decentralized app platform Ethereum has gone as planned on Thursday.
After a failed try in January, which was postponed just one day before the scheduled upgrade date due to a security issue, Ethereum has now been upgraded to …
Crypto exchange mistakenly sends 103 bitcoin to wallet it’s locked out of
When it comes to cryptocurrency, things can always get worse.
Earlier this month, news broke that QuadrigaCX, a Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, lost access to $190 million worth of customer crypto after the founder died — taking sole knowledge of the account passwords to the grave.
Now, it looks like it screwed up again. According to a preliminary report filed by Ernst and Young, which is acting as a court-appointed monitor for the company, QuadrigaCX sent a so-called cold storage wallet 103 bitcoin (worth more than $460,000) after it had been locked out.
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View More Crypto exchange mistakenly sends 103 bitcoin to wallet it’s locked out ofHe had sole access to $190 million worth of customers’ crypto. Then he died.
In the risk-filled world of cryptocurrency, “sorry for your loss” has a very specific meaning. In the case of Canadian crypto-exchange QuadrigaCX, it’s become a rather grim double entendre.
The exchange’s founder, 30-year-old Gerald Cotten, die…
Crypto exchange Binance now lets you buy Bitcoin with a credit card
Despite the plummeting prices, buying your way into the world of cryptocurrencies is getting easier every day.
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, announced on Thursday it now supports purchases via credit and debit …
Lonely Man Pulls Off $23 Million Crypto Scandal
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View More Lonely Man Pulls Off $23 Million Crypto ScandalThe sad story of an alleged SIM swapper who boosted millions
You probably shouldn’t feel sorry for Nicholas Truglia. It’s just that his story is so pathetic.
The 21-year old Manhattan resident was arrested last November and extradited to California in December. There, he’d face 21 felony counts relating to acc…
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini launches mobile trading app
Users of U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Gemini can now trade on the go with a new mobile app, launched for iOS and Android on Tuesday.
The app lets you buy and sell cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether, litecoin, bitcoin cash and Zcas…
Coinbase Bundle performance tracker reveals the sad state of the crypto market
If you bought a lot Bitcoin in 2011, you’d be rich now.
But if you bought Bitcoin a year ago, or even a month ago…well, let’s just say your portfolio would be a pretty sad sight.
Which is why it’s funny that cryptocurrency exchange Coin…
Crypto trading card game ‘Gods Unchained’ looks pretty sweet in first gameplay trailer
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Cryptocurrency-based gaming is growing up.
Gods Unchained, an upcoming trading card game (TCG) based on Ethereum, has released its first gameplay trailer, and it looks great.
On the surface, Gods Unchained is a clone of Hearthstone, Blizzard’s game that made the genre immensely popular after it launched in 2014. You collect cards, which give you various traits and abilities, build a deck, and then try to defeat opponents in turn-by-turn play.
But the game is different in one key aspect — its cards live as non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. Non-fungible tokens or NFTs are cryptographic tokens which are unique, contrary to fungible tokens (think ethers or bitcoins) which are all exactly alike and interchangeable (for technical details, go here). Read more…
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View More Crypto trading card game ‘Gods Unchained’ looks pretty sweet in first gameplay trailerCrypto’s black Wednesday: Where do we go from here?
Cryptocurrencies are notoriously volatile, but even seasoned traders were taken aback by the price action on Wednesday and Thursday.
Bitcoin is down roughly 15% compared to the day before and is trading at $5,380 on Coinbase at writing time. Et…