The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a report about increasing fraud at Bitcoin ATMs. These ATMs allow people to turn their cash into crypto, but they’ve become a tool for scammers to perpetrate fraud. Since 2020, the FTC says, fraud at Bitcoin ATMs has ballooned nearly tenfold, and just in the first half of 2024, … Read more
Bitcoin has lost more than 10% in the past two weeks as fear of a US recession, spot Bitcoin ETF outflows and the threat of miner capitulation grows.
Fed interest rate cuts are typically bullish for risk assets, but not so fast—here’s why analysts expect more pain ahead for Bitcoin.
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The migration from POL to MATIC will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2%.
With 63 days until the US election and early voting starting in September, single-issue crypto voters have a limited window to decide between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Four team members listed in World Liberty Financial’s white paper previously worked on Dough Finance, which was drained of $2 million in July. One also founded Date Hotter Girls LLC.
Crypto users lost some $2 billion due to hacks, scams and exploits throughout 2023, one report said.
Bitcoin opens the week in the red as comments from the Bank of Japan and a sharp sell-off in equities markets negatively impact BTC price.
“You could not ask for two worse events to come back-to-back,” between the arrest of Pavel Durov and network outages, Decrypt was told.
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Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Last month, it was discovered that an inactive piece of software that ships on all Google Pixel smartphones presented a potential security vulnerability for device owners. The company quickly said it would remove “Showcase.apk,” which was created years ago “for Verizon in-store demo devices and is no longer … Read more
Volkswagen is taking its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment on the road. Or more, specifically to vehicles it sells in the United States. The German automaker announced in January at CES 2024 plans to add an AI-powered chatbot into all Volkswagen models equipped with its IDA voice assistant. But the U.S. was excluded in that initial … Read more
The FBI said that North Korean criminals are using increasingly sophisticated methods to target crypto industry employees, including those tied to ETF firms.
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DPRK scammers have been employing fake offers of employment and investment opportunities to trick crypto users into downloading malware.
OI continues to rise as BTC stabilises. BTC still best performing assets class this year. FTX to distribute $16bn to creditors starting in Q4. Qatar introduces regulatory framework for crypto. ETH L1s fees down 90%, L2 activity ATH. Base hits 14m monthly users, many may be Sybil. ETH is in death spiral: Krueger. SOL to … Read more
Bitcoin addresses with balances between 1,000 and 10,000 BTC hold the largest share, 24.17%, of the total BTC supply.
The fund allegedly lost about half of its assets following FTX’s collapse.