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A former National Crime Agency (NCA) officer, Paul Chowles, has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison after he admitted to stealing 50 Bitcoins, now valued at nearly a staggering $6 million, during an investigation into dark...
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Well, it finally happened. The infamous cryptocurrency transaction involving 10,000 Bitcoins for a pair of Papa John's pizzas back on May 22, 2010 has surpassed the $1 billion mark. It reached that mark when Bitcoin breached the $100,000...
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Bitcoin continues to surge and, for the first time ever, has reached and surpassed the $100,000 mark. That milestone represents a greater than 100% increase in value since the beginning of the year, when Bitcoin was trading for less than...
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Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency of them all, surged to an all-time high valuation in the nighttime hours as it became apparent that former President Donald Trump had the necessary votes to defeat current Vice President Kamala...
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The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning consumers of a "massive" surge in Bitcoin ATM scams (add it to the list of cryptocurrency scams). According to the FTC, consumers posted collective losses totaling $110 million in...
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Bitcoin is on a tear this week, having initially rallied to above $53,000 on Monday, the highest it has been since November 2021. That's also well above the less than $17,000 mark that it was sitting at to begin the year. Now just two days...
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Early in January, Bitcoin saw a healthy spike up to $45,000 following some excitement surrounding Bitcoin exchange-traded-funds. This trend has continued with some ups and downs in the middle, but regardless, people have been rather...
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Since the early May 2022 cryptocurrency crash, cryptocurrency, in general, has seemingly lacked excitement. However, Bitcoin has seen impressive growth over the course of 2023. It has seen gains of 173% to crest over $45,000, marking a...
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Scams in some form or another have been around for ages, and certainly through the majority of the computer era. They employ different rouses and have different goals, but one thing that binds many of them is they rely on victims letting...
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BIT Mining Limited has published a news release disclosing that the cryptocurrency mining pool run by its subsidiary, BTC.com, suffered a cyberattack earlier this month on December 3. In the course of the attack, threat actors stole...
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Just one year ago, Bitcoin's value was in the stratosphere at a whopping $65,000 per coin. A series of market-shifting exchange collapses have now dragged prices down to barely over $15,000, erasing years of gains and threatening further...
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On Monday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed that Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agents raided James Zhong’s house in Gainesville, Georgia back in November 2021. The raid, which was authorized...
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Researchers at Aqua Security have discovered cyberattacks that appear to have been conducted by TeamTNT, a threat actor previously thought to be defunct. The researchers encountered three different attacks, each of which looks to be new...
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Financial regulators in the US have been reluctant to come down on cryptocurrency for fear of stifling innovation, but there's nothing innovative about Forsage. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against 11...
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies took another hit after Celsius, one of the leading crypto lending firms, announced it is pausing all withdrawals and transfers "due to extreme market conditions." After the announcement, Bitcoin slid to...
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Woe is the investor who put all their investment funds into cryptocurrency, because chances are their portfolio isn't looking so hot right now. The cryptocurrency market is experiencing a huge decline the likes of which we can't remember...
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The most resilient of all the cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, is having a very bad year so far after peaking last November at around $67,000. Now instead of talking about whether it can reach $100,000, Bitcoin investors and observers are left...
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Intel is ready to "usher in the era of metaverse and Web 3.0" by embracing blockchain in a big way. In a blog post, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group, Raja Koduri, said...
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At the upcoming 2022 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Intel is scheduled to talk about its entry into the potentially lucrative world of Bitcoin mining with Bonanza Mine, an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) energy-efficient...
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If you even owned a laptop from over 30 years ago, it's probably long-since been retired. Laptops did actually exist in the 1980s, though, and while mainly (not solely) built for word processing chores, an owner of a Toshiba T3200SX laptop...
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Remember when Bitcoin was worth a fraction of a cent? Those days are long gone, and barring a cryptocurrency crash of epic proportions, they may never come back. Instead, Bitcoin this week went on a rally, skyrocketing to its highest value...
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Step aside China, there’s a new bitcoin sheriff in town! A study recently revealed that the United States currently leads the world in bitcoin mining. It has finally surpassed China, which was the undisputed leader for several years...
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