An ongoing ransomware attack targets the public services infrastructure of Weiz. Malware team, NetWalker, launched a ransomware attack against the Austrian village of Weiz. This attack affected the public service system and leaked some of the stolen data from building applications and inspections. According to the cybersecurity firm, Panda Security, hackers managed to penetrate the […]
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Kingdom Trust, a regulated custodian managing over $13 billion in assets, wants to tokenize the more than 20,000 assets that it currently custodies. Kingdom Trust, a South Dakota-based custodian managing more than $13 billion assets, is closely eying the tokenization sector. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Kingdom Trust chief executive, Ryan Radloff, revealed that the firm wants […]
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Bitflyer showed 2019 losses, blockchain startup LayerX raised millions, and more headlined news from Japan this past week. This week’s headlines from Japan included GMO Coin exchange polling customers on their view of digital assets, Lisk opening a base in Japan, Bitflyer showing 2019 net losses, blockchain startup LayerX securing significant funding, and two entities […]
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Cointelegraph has partnered with the WEF to integrate our crypto industry news and analysis feed to its Strategic Intelligence network. We are excited to announce that Cointelegraph has joined the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence contributor network as a content partner, supplying the latest blockchain and cryptocurrency industry news, market analysis and op-eds into its […]
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Check out this week’s Bad Crypto News It’s been a strange week for BTC as we move forward in our new mining rewards era. The price ends the week down but a late rally has pushed it back over $9,000. Technical analysts expect Bitcoin to continue rising based on the liquidation range of short positions, […]
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South Korean tech titan names Woong Ah-yoon as the head of their blockchain division. Although the company made no official announcement, South Korean tech conglomerate Samsung Electronics seems to have been appointed a new Vice President in its AI PM Group / Blockchain Dev Group. Woong Ah-yoon, a former chief architect of Blockchain Solutions for […]
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The more that government stimulus protects the economic pillars, the more it will support the liquidity inflows to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In the past three decades, the world has been witness to three extraordinary “black swan” events that served as structural crossroads for both societies and economies: the 9/11 terror attacks, the 2008 global […]
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The head of Ripple SBI Asia asserts that hashpower is migrating from east to west, however, notes that significant tensions remain between Chinese and U.S. mining firms. Speaking to Cointelegraph, the CEO of Ripple SBI Asia, Adam Traidman, predicted that the mining industry will continue to see hash rate migrate from east to west, asserting […]
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Voted as the best hypothetical CEO for crypto asset Dogecoin, Elon Musk sent two fresh humans up through the stratosphere today. Elon Musk, a tech mogul with indirect ties to the crypto industry, sent two humans into orbit on May 30 in the first private, manned space craft launch in history. “The launch will be […]
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World’s top ecommerce firm Amazon filed a patent for a blockchain system that tracks goods as they move on the supply chain. World’s top ecommerce firm, Amazon, filed a patent for a blockchain system that tracks goods as they move on the supply chain. Amazon’s patent — dated May 26 — describes a “distributed ledger […]
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