April 24, 2019 Brazilian Police Arrest Suspect for Money Laundering With Bitcoin Brazilian police have arrested a man for operating a clandestine drug laboratory and money laundering using the leading cryptocurrency bitcoin.…
April 22, 2019 Microsoft Korea: Country Faces Growing Threat From Stealth Crypto Mining Attacks Microsoft Korea has said the country is facing an increase in crytojacking incidents, according to their new report.…
April 21, 2019 Everything But Crypto, Or How the ‘Crypto’ Movie Does Not Live Up to Its Name It seems that the new “Crypto” movie may have little to do with cryptocurrencies, and more to do with the Russian mob.…
April 20, 2019 Report: Chinese Publicly Listed Construction Company Turned Mining Firm Lost Over $23 Million A Chinese publicly listed construction company turned to cryptocurrency mining firm has been reportedly sold after its value decreased by over 90%.…
April 19, 2019 Official Chinese Currency Renminbi to Become Cryptocurrency, Expert Says Donald Tapscott, executive chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute, has said that Chinese renminbi will become a crypto.…
April 13, 2019 Bitcoin SV Miners Saw Gross Losses of $2.2 Million Since Fork: BitMEX A recent report estimated that Bitcoin SV miners have accumulated gross losses of $2.2 million. A tweet published on April 12 by the research arm of major cryptocurrency derivatives platform BitMEX estimates that Bitcoin SV (BSV) miners have accumulated gross losses of $2.2 million.The report released by BitMEX Research claims that BSV miners perceived a negative gross profit margin of 12% since the coin was created in a hard fork that split Bitcoin Cash (BCH).…
April 13, 2019 US Justice Dept. Convicts Two Romanians of Cybercrimes Including Cryptojacking U.S. federal jury convicted two alleged Romanian hackers of spreading malware to steal credit card credentials and illicitly mine cryptocurrency.…
April 12, 2019 Will China Ban Crypto Mining? Chinese government is considering the elimination of crypto mining. On April 9, Reuters reported that a Chinese government agency is considering the elimination of crypto mining in the country.…
April 9, 2019 Major Web Browser Firefox by Mozilla Now Blocks Web-Based Cryptojacking Major open-source browser Mozilla Firefox announced new protections against crypto mining attacks in its new browser versions.…
April 8, 2019 Zcash Exercises Restraint as the Antminer Z11 Release Approaches While Bitmain is releasing the second Antminer for mining ZEC, the Zcash team is not in a hurry to fork the network and join the ASIC resistance campaign.…
