Bitcoin Black Friday: "Deals and Giveaways You Cannot Miss!"
- Nuno Teodoro
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- 23 Nov 2018
Black Friday is upon us, the best time of the year to spend your hard earned money. While some of us will take advantage of the declining market to add ...
Opinion
21-Year-Old 'SIM Swapper' Arrested After Allegedly Stealing $1 Million in Cryptocurrency
- Omar Faridi
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- 23 Nov 2018
Nicholas Truglia, a 21-year-old resident of New York, has reportedly been accused of stealing $1 million in digital currency by using a “SIM swapping” fraud technique. Truglia, who lives on ...
How Crypto's Falling Prices Could Finally Shift the Spotlight Toward dApps
- John Medley
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- 22 Nov 2018
It has been a wild ride for blockchain and cryptocurrencies. So far this year, the market saw crypto prices rise to all-time highs only to fall again to the pre-frenzy ...
OKEx Denies Claims Trader Unfairly Lost $700,000 on BCH Futures Contracts
- Omar Faridi
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- 20 Nov 2018
Cryptocurrency traders have reportedly suffered huge losses after digital asset exchange, OKEx, quickly settled bitcoin cash (BCH) futures contracts - allegedly without properly informing users before the BCH hard fork on ...
KPMG's Report: Cryptoassets Are Not Yet a Legitimate Store of Value, Nor Medium of Exchange
- Omar Faridi
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- 19 Nov 2018
Netherlands-based KPMG, one of the “Big Four” professional services firm which also include Ernst & Young (EY), PwC, and Deloitte, recently released a report in which it noted that bitcoin ...
Deloitte's Blockchain Lead: Clients Are Increasingly Concerned About Fraudulent ICOs, Altcoins
- Omar Faridi
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- 19 Nov 2018
Linda Pawczuk, the principal at Deloitte Consulting, one of the “Big Four” multinational professional services firms, recently said that her clients have expressed concerns about the numerous scams associated with ...
Coingeek Claims Crippling Bitmain Debt From Anonymous Sources, Despite Having an Agenda
- Colin Muller
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- 17 Nov 2018
Coingeek, a major competitor of Bitmain in the Bitcoin Cash 'hashwar', has claimed Bitmain cannot pay its debts, citing a host of anonymous, private, unverifiable sources - with a lack of ...
Canada's Courts to Take Custody of Crypto Exchange QuadrigaCX’s Frozen Funds
- Omar Faridi
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- 15 Nov 2018
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has reportedly moved toward taking custody of a large amount of funds that belong to digital asset exchange, QuadrigaCX. Recent court documents show that ...
Retail Giant Target's Twitter Account Hacked, Used to Promote Fake 5,000 Bitcoin (BTC) Giveaway
- Omar Faridi
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- 13 Nov 2018
Cryptocurrency scammers had reportedly hijacked retail giant Target’s official Twitter account - in order to promote a fake bitcoin (BTC) giveaway. The fraudsters had encouraged Target Coproration’s over 2 ...
Crypto Scammers Busted for Offering Fraudulent 'Halal' Investment Scheme
- Omar Faridi
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- 13 Nov 2018
Indian citizen, Syed Fareed, and his son, Syed Afaq Ahmed, have reportedly been involved in a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment scheme. Both Fareed and Ahmed had launched what now appears to ...
