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May 24, 2020

Hacker Sells Tens of Thousands of Ledger, Tezor, and Keepkey Users’ Info

The customer databases of Trezor, Ledger, and Keepkay have allegedly been listed for sale by the perpetrating hacker. The hacker that breached the Ethereum.org forum is allegedly selling the databases for the three most-popular crypto hard wallets — Ledger, Trezor, and KeepKey.The three databases contain the name, address, phone number, and email for more than […]

Steem Soft Forks to Sanction Mysterious ‘Community321’ Account

content: Steem has completed a soft fork which sanctions the account that went rogue and sent 23.6 million STEEM to Bittrex in protest of a recent hard fork. Steem has executed a soft fork to restrict the rogue “community321” account from making transfers after the account sent nearly 24 million STEEM to Bittrex in protest […]

Bitflyer Donates Cheezy Pies to Shelters In Honor of BTC Pizza Day

content: Taking advantage of a memorable day in cryptocurrency history, BitFlyer decided to donate pizzas to folks in need. Bitcoin Pizza Day commemorates a historic event roughly 10 years ago, when coder Laszlo Hanyecz made the first commercial purchase using Bitcoin (BTC). In celebration of this well-loved community holiday, BitFlyer donated pizzas to a number […]

Price Analysis 5/22: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, BNB, EOS, XTZ, ADA

content: A few major cryptocurrencies are in an uptrend and they could offer buying opportunities in the short-term. For some reason, Bitcoin (BTC) analysts never take the middle path. They either project that the price will go to the moon or warn of imminent doom. After surviving and thriving for over a decade and being […]

Plus Token Leadership Faces Criminal Prosecution in China

content: PlusToken main criminal suspect is facing public prosecution. One of the ringleaders of Plus Token is now facing criminal charges in China. Plus Token is one of the largest apparent scams in the cryptocurrency industry’s history. According to local media, Zhou will face public prosecutors in the Court of Jianhu County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu […]

Layer1 Stabilizes Texas Grids With ‘Bitcoin Batteries’

content: Layer1 Technologies has deployed its proprietary mining containers as electricity storage systems to stabilize Texas’ electricity market. U.S.-based Bitcoin (BTC) mining datacenter operator Layer1 Technologies has deployed its mining containers as “Bitcoin Batteries” comprising large-scale energy storage systems. Layer1 asserts that its bitcoin batteries will help stabilize Texas’ seasonally volatile energy market by releasing […]

We Have All Had A ‘Pizza Day Moment’ — What’s Yours?

content: Detailing his own coffee purchase experience, Andreas Antonopoulos said many other similar stories likely exist from the years following “Bitcoin Pizza Day”. Famous entrepreneur and author, Andreas Antonopoulos, said that he paid five Bitcoin (BTC) for one pound coffee in 2012.   “I don’t rerget it or any other BTC I spent, or gifted,” Antonopoulos told […]

Institutional Investors Buying Up BTC Like Crazy After Halving

content: Institutional interest in Bitcoin is experiencing an unprecedented surge, with GBTC alone swallowing up 17% of newly mined Bitcoins. Both data and first-hand accounts from industry insiders indicates that an interest in Bitcoin (BTC) from institutional investors is accelerating at a rapid pace. This has led some to conclude that the “perfect storm” is […]

New Ransomware Employs Never-Before-Seen Attack Method

content: A UK-based cybersecurity firm unveiled new details of Ragnar Locker ransomware attack that uses a VirtualBox app. A new study warns of a new ransomware attack method that runs a virtual machine on target computers in order to infect them with the ransomware. This may play the attack beyond the reach of the computer’s […]