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Texas Regulators Shut Down Three Cryptocurrency Scams

September 20, 2018 0 0

The Texas State Securities Board has issued an emergency action to halt the deceitful offerings of investments in three cryptocurrency related schemes. The agency entered a cease and desist order against Coins Miner Investment Ltd, DigitalBank Ltd, as well as Ultimate Assets, who is charged for offering Texans misleading ROIs and promising to grow an initial investment […]

Hackers Nab $58,000 from Cryptocurrency Exchange by Trading Fake EOS Tokens

September 20, 2018 0 0

Hackers were able to steal nearly $58,000 worth of cryptocurrency from the Newdex exchange by exploiting a vulnerability in the exchange, according to TheNextWeb. The hackers flooded the Newdex exchange with fake EOS tokens they created themselves to buy ADD, BLACK and IQ tokens from the centralized platform. Newdex acknowledged that an EOS account issued 1 billion phony EOS […]

Bitcoin Hasn’t Funded any Terror Attacks in Europe, Europol Report Reveals

September 19, 2018 0 0

Bitcoin and similar digital assets were not used to fund any of the recent terror attacks in Europe, finds a Europol report that paints a clear picture of the contribution of cryptocurrencies to online crime. The 72-page long study [PDF], titled Intenet Organized Threat Assessment 2018, thoroughly touches upon the various modules of online crime, […]

Top Ten US Bank Joins Ripple Blockchain RippleNet for Cross-Border Payments

September 19, 2018 0 0

PNC Bank, the 9th largest bank in the United States by assets, has joined Ripple’s enterprise blockchain network RippleNet in what is a noteworthy addition for the San Francisco-based fintech. With over $380 billion in assets, Pittsburg-based PNC Financial Services Group has become the latest member to join RippleNet, a global payments network of over 100 institutions including […]

20% of Coinbase Trades are Made by the Cryptocurrency Exchange Itself

September 19, 2018 0 0

When trading on a cryptocurrency exchange, investors have little-to-no information about the person trading against them, that is, the person on the other side of their buy and sell orders. Subject to the geographic restrictions of the exchange, that could be someone who lives in your neighborhood, or it could be someone who lives on […]

2100NEWS IS COMING TO LATOKEN

September 18, 2018 0 0

We are proud to announce the listing on the LATOKEN Exchange. Our community now can trade with NWS tokens easy and comfortable. About 2100NEWS: 2100NEWS is the media hub that offers real-time crypto news, authorized financial and price-sensitive information from token issuers. 2100NEWS will be the information highway for all stakeholders in the crypto community. […]

$414 Billion Alibaba’s Jack Ma: Blockchain Needs to Target Manufacturing Industry

September 18, 2018 0 0

At World AI Conference 2018, Jack Ma, the co-founder and chairman of $414 billion e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba, stated that artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and Internet of Things (IoT) can all become meaningless if they fail to target the manufacturing industry. “AI, Blockchain and IoT will be meaningless tech unless they can promote the transformation of […]

Cryptojacking: Attackers Hijack Indian Government Websites to Mine Cryptocurrency

September 18, 2018 0 0

Hackers stole the processing power of several Indian government websites to mine cryptocurrencies, researchers found. Citizen portals such as that of the municipal administration of Andhra Pradesh (AP), Tirupati Municipal Corporation and Macherla municipality are among the hundreds of Indian websites that are found to be infected by cryptojacking malware. Cryptojacking, as the term indicates, […]

Ethereum Wallets are Enabling Transaction Scheduling, Killer Feature

September 18, 2018 0 0

MyCrypto, a non-custodial Ethereum and ERC20 token wallet created by the co-founder of MyEtherWallet, has integrated a feature that enables Ethereum users to schedule ETH transactions ahead of time. On MyCrypto, an open-source wallet that is structurally similar to MyEtherWallet, users can connect hardware wallets like Trezor and other non-custodial wallets such as MetaMask to use their existing wallets […]

How Ethereum Hackathons are Drastically Improving Blockchain Systems

September 17, 2018 0 0

Since mid-2017, Ethereum hackathons have been held in many major cities across the globe, to encourage the development of decentralized applications (dApps) and blockchain-based systems. ETHGlobal, the biggest Ethereum hackathon organization to date, has played a key role in facilitating the growth of the Ethereum open-source developer community, providing technical workshops, educational talks, and resources to hackers […]