As if it was not bad enough to watch crypto valuations tank over the past two weeks, the news out now is that a collective of hackers, known as the "Gorgon Group", have launched a widespread botnet attack that focuses on crypto investors by creating a backdoor into your personal computer, bouncing around any Microsoft…
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After Congress’s public thrashing of Facebook’s Libra project and all things crypto, it was only a matter of time before a few Congressmen would bandy together to propose a “news catching” or “click bait” type of response, as a way to counter to this somewhat overblown threat. In a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome…
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Ripple Labs, the crypto entity whose mission is to revolutionize the cross-border payments industry by replacing antiquated clearing organizations like S.W.I.F.T., seems to make headway with each announcement regarding its XRP-driven platform, but it appears to be one of those “two-steps-forward-one step back” kind of enterprises. Good news is usually followed by the executive team’s…
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Yoni Assia, the CEO and co-founder of eToro, a social trading and multi asset brokerage company, made a recent appearance on Charlie Shrem’s podcast, Untold Stories. During his interview, he expressed two general concerns. The first had to do with the world’s need for a publicly accessible digital currency, which would be fully transparent and…
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Bitcoin revisited the upper $7,000s this weekend, continuing its ranging behavior, but always with a gradual downward slope, as if tempting bears or bulls to grab on. The excitement from a few weeks back is quickly becoming a distant memory, but so is $10,000, its last ranging median for weeks on end. Advocates, however, are…
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There’s gold in them thar hills, or so say-ith the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and most other major taxing jurisdictions across the globe. After years of lenient auditing practices with regard to crypto tax collection, officials have suddenly realized that there could be enormous payoffs, ripe for the picking, for only investing a few million…
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While news of Bitcoin and all things crypto dominate the financial news headlines, there is also a silent revolution that is overtaking every facet of the business community. No matter where you look, there are new initiatives that are capitalizing on the heavily touted benefits of blockchain technology. Consulting firms have told us that billions…
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Telegram , the encrypted messenger service provider, is launching the Telegram Open Network in late October, 2019. The information comes from an internal company email to investors. This is what the project team posted on Telegram regarding the update to investors: Original investors received emails from the Telegram core team,” and investors will have to…
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More than a decade back, after a few influential techie types discovered “Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System”, a new form of payment vehicle rushed to the point-of-sale to revolutionize the stodgy payments industry forever. Such would not be the case due to the volatility of this digital asset, but it did become…
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In some respects, we are back to old times where Bitcoin followers react to every tiny little wobbling that affects their favorite digital asset. The carnage from last week’s battle has been cleared from the battlefield, as investors regain confidence that Bitcoin might actually be on a road back to recovery. A cacophony of critical…
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