Local police have busted Wotoken, China’s second ten-figure crypto Ponzi. The scam, Wotoken, took in roughly $1 billion worth of crypto at current prices from over 715,000 victims. One of the scam’s core operators is purportedly linked to PlusToken — a multi-billion Ponzi that is believed to have impacted the price trajectory of Bitcoin (BTC) […]
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Crypto security firm Ngrave has hired pioneering cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater and crypto investor Michael Terpin. Digital asset security firm, Ngrave, announced two new advisors in May so far — Michael Terpin, a pioneering crypto investor who co-founded BitAngels in 2013, and renowned cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater, who is quoted in the Bitcoin (BTC) whitepaper. The appointments […]
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Crypto analysts believe Bitcoin price is set for a near-term rally as a key technical pattern points toward $9,800. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) dropped to as low as $9,100 on May 15 following a strong rejection at $9,900. In the short-term, traders still anticipate another upsurge to the $10,000 area, or at least to […]
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Former Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler sent documentation concerning her stock trades to the Justice Department amid insider trading accusations. The former chief executive officer of both Bakkt and the New York Stock Exchange’s parent company Intercontinental, U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler, has handed over documentation concerning her trading activities to the U.S. Justice Department, or DoJ, […]
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Check out this week’s Bad Crypto News. The halving came and the halving went, which means that miners now only get 6.25 Bitcoins for each block and we only have about 1450 days to wait until the next one. That’s something to look forward to, especially as this halving didn’t seem to do much harm. […]
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Signs indicate that Venezuela’s state-backed cryptocurrency quietly underwent a hard fork earlier this month. On May 5, Venezuela’s government announced that its controversial oil-backed cryptocurrency, El Petro, would go offline for maintenance until May 10. However, observers have since identified that the official Petro block explorer now lists May 5, 2020, as the date that […]
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The film, Monero Means Money, went from drawing board to premiere in just one week, and even briefly topped the U.S. box office, albeit largely due to the COVID-19 lockdown… but is that a good thing? You may recall that an independent film about Monero recently topped the United States box-office charts, with gross sales […]
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SBI Holdings started a joint venture fund with Redstone Digital, BitFlyer exchange aired a commercial, and more headlined news from Japan this past week. This week’s headlines from Japan included SBI Holdings pairing up with Redstone Digital for a joint venture fund, LayerX teaming up with GMO Aozora for digitalization research, Decurret working to put […]
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Only few TON investors reportedly want to support Telegram and wait for a 110% refund until April 2021 after TON’s official termination, a new report says. On May 12, Telegram officially terminated its involvement in its planned blockchain project, the Telegram Open Network, and its corresponding GRAM token. Apparently ending its long-running legal battle with […]
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Celo founder Rene Reinsberg discusses entering the early phases of mainnet and The Celo Foundation’s recent $10 million auction. The Celo Foundation raised $10 million for its blockchain platform Celo in a dutch auction on CoinList on May 12. The auction sold out within 12 hours, with Celo Gold (cGLD) tokens selling for roughly $1 […]
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