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September 19, 2018 6:04 PM Advertisements Europol yesterday published its fifth annual Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), in which it highlights some common cyber attacks and criminal activities related to cryptocurrency. The 2018 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) was presented at the joint Interpol-Europol Cybercrime Conference in Singapore. Advertisements 5 Types of Threat […]

Jackson Palmer Meets Elon Musk As you are likely aware of, cryptocurrency scambots have become a rampant issue in the social media channels of this industry, with thousands of fraudulent Twitter accounts doing their utmost best to get their hands on consumer-owned crypto. This problem has even triggered Elon Musk to openly discuss these “Etherium […]

September 17, 2018 10:05 PM Advertisements Switzerland is eyeing access to Israel’s financial markets, but European Union regulations may be a hurdle for the famously neutral country. According to a recent Reuters report, Switzerland’s Federal Department of Finance has asked the Israeli Ministry of Finance to allow Swiss banks to trade funds in the Middle […]

September 17, 2018 9:04 PM Advertisements A group of industrialists hopes to improve on the proposed laws the national legislature is currently considering. The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) is reportedly working on a draft bill regarding the use of cryptocurrency, according to a September 14 article on the Russian tech site ForkLog. […]

September 17, 2018 8:55 PM Advertisements In a press release today, the Tezos Foundation has announced its mainnet is officially out of beta. The Tezos Foundation offered some good news for a change, when in a press release, it stated its network was no longer in the beta phase. However, it’s not clear from the […]

Since Bitcoin’s inception in the financial world it has given birth to a new field of ideas and solutions to be explored by many for the issues that are globally met right now. Mostly and tremendously in the currency industry. One of the most influential and respected figures trying to shape-up and improve the crypto-verse […]

September 14, 2018 9:21 PM Advertisements Josh Garza gets 21 months for a $9 million fraud. After pleading guilty to a wire fraud charge in July of last year, Josh Garza, former CEO of GAW Miners, has been sentenced to 21 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, the first […]

September 14, 2018 8:16 PM Advertisements Today, the core devs announced the date that Constantinople-implemented clients will fork the Ropsten testnet. There is no date yet announced for the launch of Constantinople on the mainnet. Sometime in the second week of October, all Constantinople-implemented clients will fork the Ropsten testnet. Martin Holst Swende suggested aiming […]

September 14, 2018 10:37 PM Advertisements The mobile Dapp browsing provider cuts no slack for the popular collaboration tool. Status recently announced it would discontinue using the workflow and messaging app Slack. According to Chad Jackson, product manager at Status, using Slack violates “pretty much all” of the group’s principles, including “privacy, security, transparency, decentralization, […]

September 13, 2018 11:00 PM Advertisements A bill enabling the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to investigate cryptocurrencies is now headed to the Senate. Yesterday, the House of Representative passed the FinCEN Improvement Act of 2018, a bipartisan bill that, if enacted, would expand the role of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). FinCEN, a division […]