A Seoul court granted the petition demanded by the prosecutors to freeze crypto wallets owned by the head of the Nth Room case. On June 2, a South Korean court ordered a freeze on all the cryptocurrency wallets, securities deposits, and stocks account owned by Cho Ju-bin, the suspected head of Nth Room. Nth Room […]
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Famed pop music video director Joseph Kahn has announced that cryptocurrency trading is his new favorite hobby. Joseph Kahn, a music video director who has worked for the world’s leading pop stars for over two decades, has announced that trading crypto assets is his new favorite hobby. After claiming to have spent the past month […]
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Thousands of enterprise computers have been infected with a cryptojacking malware that installs a Monero mining app. The Blue Mockingbird malware gang has infected more than 1000 business systems with Monero mining malware since December 2019. The global scale of the hacker group’s operations was revealed by cloud security firm Red Canary on May 26. […]
Continue ReadingHow secure is blockchain technology? Experts weigh in on the complex differences between public and permissioned blockchains. Blockchain technology has become synonymous with privacy and security, but those very characteristics have been put to the test over the past decade. With historical roots embedded in cryptography, many blockchain and cryptocurrency projects purport to offer unbridled […]
Continue ReadingA study into the traceability of top privacy coins reveals over 99% of Zcash users fail to utilize the protocol’s privacy features. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have released a study into the privacy features of Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC) — arguably the two most-popular crypto assets purporting to offer users anonymity. The report […]
Continue ReadingThe Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research has been tracking transactions made by local terror groups. A report published by the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR) reveals that terrorist groups related to Islamic State (IS) in Southeast Asia have recently made their first transactions using cryptocurrencies. According to the […]
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Crystal Blockchain Analytics unveiled figures that show an increased value of Bitcoin transferred through the dark web, though the amount of Bitcoin was less. A study from Crystal Blockchain Analytics on May 19 shows that the total USD value of Bitcoins transferred on the dark web rose by 65% in Q1 2020, despite a decline […]
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Hackers attacking supercomputers across Europe, trying to get their hands on mining crypto. Hackers have attacked multiple supercomputers across Europe this week with the intention of mining cryptocurrency. Clusters of supercomputers have been forced to shut down in order to investigate the intrusions, according to a ZDNet news report on May 16. These security incidents […]
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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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Upticks in Bitcoin ATMs, transaction volume, and women in crypto all point positive for Bitcoin. Data published today from Cointelegraph Markets and Arcane Research found that despite investor concerns over the block reward halving disincentivizing miners and possibly compromising the security of the network, demand for Bitcoin continues to rise globally. Proof of increasing adoption […]
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