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• Scammer Bitcoin App Scales Apple Walled Garden To Rob iPhone User Of Over $600K
A fraudulent app in Apple's App Store enabled a scammer to swipe $600,000 worth of Bitcoin from an iPhone user, depleting him of his life savings that he hoped would salvage his dry cleaning business. It's an unfortunate situation that both serves as a cautionary cryptocurrency tale, and highlights a need for better vetting of mobile apps.
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• PayPal Now Accepts Ethereum, Bitcoin As Payment For Any Transaction Amid Crypto Boom
Cryptocurrency is slowly but surely growing in popularity with a broader global audience. Now that Elon Musk has begun to accept Bitcoin for Tesla purchases, that trend is only going to continue. As such, PayPal is jumping on the bandwagon of accepting crypto as a payment method for anything. Perhaps people will finally convert and have a
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• Nintendo Game Boy Converted To Bitcoin Mining Noob With Raspberry Pi Pico
Most people would never consider trying to mine Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency) on an original Game Boy, a handheld console released by Nintendo over three decades ago. But would it be a feasible mod if someone paired a Game Boy with Raspberry Pi Pico, which is less than a year old? The answer is still no, but someone did it anyway.
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• Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Now Accepts Bitcoin As Payment For EVs
In February, we reported that Tesla went in on Bitcoin, investing $1.5 billion and laying the groundwork to accept payments using the cryptocurrency. Since then, Bitcoin is up over $13,000, which has earned Elon Musk’s company in the neighborhood of $480 million. Now, Tesla intends to increase its amassed wealth by allowing new Tesla purchases
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• Coinbase Files For IPO But Cites Bitcoin's Creator As A Major Risk Factor
Yesterday, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public with class A common stock under the symbol COIN. In the filing, the Delaware-based company listed its risk factors, including the outing of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym used by the person or group of people who
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• Bitcoin Surges To All-Time High As It Continues To Defy Cryptocurrency Skeptics
Bitcoin is still on the rise, having yet again hit a new record high, this time topping $50,000 for the first time ever. It achieved the milestone yesterday morning, before dropping back below the threshold—at the time of this writing, it is trading for a few hundred bucks above $48,000, giving Bitcoin a market cap of over $902 billion.
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• Megnyitja hálózatát a Mastercard a kriptovaluták előtt
A világ egyik legnagyobb kártyakibocsátója lehetővé teszi a közvetlen fizetést egyes kriptovaluták esetében - mint amilyen a Bitcoin és Ether....
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• Megnyitja hálózatát a Mastercard a kriptovaluták előtt
A világ egyik legnagyobb kártyakibocsátója lehetővé teszi a közvetlen fizetést egyes kriptovaluták esetében - mint amilyen a Bitcoin és Ether....
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• $69 Million Bitcoin Heist Continues To Elude Authorities Denied Of Culprit’s Password
German authorities are sitting on a cryptocurrency gold mine that was obtained from a convicted fraudster. In this case, the man was sentenced for secretly installing cryptocurrency mining software on victims' computers, during which he managed to amass over 1,700 Bitcoin.
Luckily, German police managed to capture the man, and he served
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• NVIDIA Open To Restarting Production Of Dedicated GPUs For Crypto Mining Boom
Have you looked at the price of Bitcoin lately? The volatile currency ballooned to nearly $40,000 in recent weeks and is now hovering at a little over $37,000. This has prompted renewed interest in cryptocurrency mining (not that it ever dissipated completely), and if demand is high enough (J.P. Morgan reckons it could eventually hit a $146,000
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• Bitcoin Experiencing A Modern Day Gold Rush As JPMorgan Predicts A Surge To $146K Valuation
Bitcoin continues to reach new heights, climbing to nearly $40,000 at the time of this writing (after reaching $20,000 a month ago), and who knows where it will stop. In the short term, maybe it reaches $50,000 by the end of the month. Looking down the road, however, at least one investment bank believes it could eventually climb to a staggering
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• Bitcoin Just Ballooned To $20,000 For the First Time Ever And Is Still Climbing
Back in late 2017, it looked like Bitcoin was on track to breach $20,000, but it did not quite get there. Even worse for Bitcoin investors, the digital currency went on a downward spiral of sorts as the crypto-market as a whole softened—by February 2018, it had dropped to below $7,000. And now? It has finally cracked the $20,000 mark in a
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• Bitcoin Surges Past $19,000 Towards Record Price And Nobody Knows Why
Believe it or not, Bitcoin at the time of this writing is trading at $19,330.80, and will be probably be even higher by the time I finish writing this article. Why is that? Good question, and nobody seems to have a definitive answer. Perhaps there is no single explanation, and this is just how it goes with the volatile cryptocurrency market.
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• U.S. Feds Seize $1 Billion In Bitcoin Linked To Silk Road Dark Web Marketplace
When cryptocurrency is stolen, it tends to vanish into thin air without no obvious means for recourse. It would typically involve moving the currency across many accounts and disbursing it, so it is slowly spread out. It seems that the hackers that stole over $1 billion in Bitcoin from Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht were not wise enough,
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• PayPal Will Soon Let Users Trade Cryptocurrency: What You Need To Know
PayPal's newly announced cryptocurrency services will soon allow users to buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin....