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Texan authorities issued an emergency cease and desist order against two brokers and their executives after they allegedly promoted a fraudulent Bitcoin investment scheme in the U.S., as per a document published by the Texas State Security Board this week. The two entities - Forex Birds and Pek Universe
Kazakhstan's new digital development minister Bagdat Mussin plans to reinforce the country's economy by expanding its crypto mining sector with a 300 billion tenges (approximately $715 million USD) investment. Talks of expansion are already underway. On Wednesday, Mussin made the case that fueled by the country&
On Saturday, the team behind open-source privacy wallet Wasabi disclosed a vulnerability that could have been exploited to perform a denial-of-service (DOS) attack. The vulnerability had previously been disclosed by Trezor’s Ondrej Vejpustek on May 10th via a PGP-encrypted message with a detailed explanation of the bug. Although according
News • Bitcoin • Sep 05, 2020
On Saturday, the team behind open-source privacy wallet Wasabi disclosed a vulnerability that could have been exploited to perform a denial-of-service (DOS) attack. The vulnerability had previously been disclosed by Trezor’s Ondrej Vejpustek on May 10th via a PGP-encrypted message with a detailed explanation of the bug. Although according
News • Bitcoin • Sep 05, 2020
Texan authorities issued an emergency cease and desist order against two brokers and their executives after they allegedly promoted a fraudulent Bitcoin investment scheme in the U.S., as per a document published by the Texas State Security Board this week. The two entities - Forex Birds and Pek Universe
News • Bitcoin • Sep 04, 2020
Kazakhstan's new digital development minister Bagdat Mussin plans to reinforce the country's economy by expanding its crypto mining sector with a 300 billion tenges (approximately $715 million USD) investment. Talks of expansion are already underway. On Wednesday, Mussin made the case that fueled by the country&
News • Bitcoin • Sep 03, 2020
Stablecoins, cryptocurrencies tied to the value of an underlying asset like the U.S. dollar, will likely soon face regulatory pressure as central banks and other regulatory agencies notice their ascent. Andrew Bailey, the incumbent Governor of the Bank of England, announced the central bank's intent to regulate
News • Bitcoin • Sep 02, 2020
Colorado resident Bryan Conner Herrell has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for moderating disputes on the now defunct darknet marketplace AlphaBay. AlphaBay formally launched on December 22nd, 2014, a month after the Silk Road was shut down by the FBI and Europol. It allowed the sale of similar
News • Bitcoin • Sep 02, 2020
The canton of Zug, Switzerland, colloquially known as "Crypto Valley," has taken an enormous stride toward cryptocurrency adoption by enabling tax settlement in bitcoin and ether. Zug will accept tax payments in both cryptocurrencies as early as 2021. Following a pilot expected to take place within the next
News • Bitcoin • Sep 02, 2020
This article was updated with additional information on September 4th after the BTC Times received a response from SatoshiLabs. According to a developer of hardware wallet ShiftCrypto, an attack vector affecting KeepKey and Trezor devices could allow hackers to hold crypto funds ransom. The developer goes by Marko and writes
News • Bitcoin • Sep 02, 2020
A "serious" ransomware attack on Tesla's Gigafactory was derailed after one plucky employee resisted a million-dollar bitcoin bribe from a Russian hacker. According to a complaint published by the Department of Justice last week, a Russian national was arrested for allegedly attempting to introduce malware to
News • Bitcoin • Sep 01, 2020