Cointelegraph By Ezra Reguerra
A father and son’s disagreement over crypto trading led to a near-death experience and some jail time. Because of a shift in crypto market prices, a son reportedly drugged his father to gain access to his Bitcoins. The dad, who didn’t want to be identified, made his son, Liam...
A chunk of the inactive Bitcoins (BTC) stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack has moved from the hacker’s wallets to an unknown wallet on Tuesday, as detected by blockchain analytics bot Whale Alerts.20 transactions involving the stolen Bitcoins were flagged. A sum of 64,641.29 BTC, worth almost...
In a new twist of the Russian crypto regulation saga, the country's Ministry of Finance has come forward with an initiative that stands in stark contrast with the Central Bank's hardline position.The Central Bank of Russia recently called for a ban on crypto trading and mining activities throughout...
Virtual world project The Sandbox announced its metaverse accelerator program that will push the development of the open metaverse by investing $50 million in startups. The Animoca Brands subsidiary is partnering with the venture accelerator firm Brinc to target 30 to 40 blockchain startups a year for the...
Chicago-based crypto exchange FTX US has reached an $8 billion valuation following new funding.According to Reuters on Wednesday, the American affiliate of FTX closed a $400 million funding round led by SoftBank Group Corp, Temasek Holdings, Paradigm and Multicoin Capital.FTX US president Brett Harrison said that this development puts...
The Twitter account of the Russian crypto exchange Latoken seems to have been breached by a hacher that started posting allegations that the exchange is a scam. According to the posts, the exchange is promoting “scam IEOs” and misleading their customers. WARNING - THIS IS A SCAM EXCHANGEThey are...
Bitcoin (BTC) has dumped below 40,000, wiping out almost $50 billion from the crypto market cap. Even without any particular news to blame, Crypto Twitter still won’t let the dump slide without reacting in its own colorful ways.Lark Davis, a crypto figure with almost a million Twitter followers...
Blockchain use cases continue to grow as the world learns about the benefits that it brings. Apart from bringing financial innovations like the ability to do peer-to-peer transactions, blockchain now makes its way to the health industry.Health specialists created a method to track and store health data using...
Receiving payment in crypto is gathering interest in Canada. A recent Capterra survey of 1,000 Canadian respondents revealed that 67% of the participants are interested in being paid in crypto in the next five years.The surveyors also found that one out of four participants already own crypto, with 58%...
Cross-chain router protocol Multichain (formerly Anyswap) urges users to revoke approvals for six tokens to avoid loss due to a “critical vulnerability” that is currently being exploited by malicious individuals.Users who approved WETH, PERI, OMT, WBNB, MATIC and AVAX on the Multichain platform are now at risk, experts...
