2 pig butcher busts: Feds recover $5M, ex-Kansas bank CEO jailed

BitFlyer USA has almost all the U.S. covered now. BitFlyer USA, the American branch of Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange BitFlyer, unveiled upcoming compatibility in the U.S. state of Hawaii.   "We chose Hawaii due to the regulatory sandbox for digital currency they set up," BitFlyer COO Joel Edgerton told Cointelegraph. "We also chose Hawaii due to close links between…

Check out this week’s Bad Crypto News. 1788 Total views 31 Total shares The halving came and the halving went, which means that miners now only get 6.25 Bitcoins for each block and we only have about 1450 days to wait until the next one. That’s something to look forward to, especially as this halving…

Users who shared links to a waitlist for the Arkham service had their email addresses exposed on Twitter due to how the references were encoded. Arkham, a “blockchain intelligence company,” announced what it’s calling the “world’s first on-chain intelligence exchange” on July 10 alongside the launch of a new coin, ARKM, through Binance’s Launchpad service.Crypto…

A new poll found that a quarter of investors in the U.K. probably should have bet big on Bitcoin in 2020. 1632 Total views 13 Total shares New research from U.K. think tank Parliament Street revealed that 25% of British investors estimate they would have made £1 million or more ($1.39 million) in profit by…

The Ethereum blockchain has successfully completed its shift away from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus following the merge of the Mainnet and the Beacon Chain.The Merge took place on Sep.15 as the network shifted to PoS seamlessly, seeing hardware-based miners replaced by validators that stake Ether (ETH) to process transactions, add new blocks and maintain…

Multiple US federal agencies have come together to distribute an infographic on crypto pig butchering to help Americans recognize and avoid the scam.

The paper, released in 2014, lays the foundations for blockchain privacy and scaling.

Ethereum will become an attractive investment to institutions, but needs better marketing and given time to develop, says Attestant adviser Tim Lowe.

Alfa-Bank and Novolipetsk Steel Company (NLMK), in cooperation with Commerzbank and Vesuvius GmbH, are piloting Russia-Germany cross-border payments on R3’s Marco Polo network.Powered by R3’s Marco Polo Blockchain Global Trade NetworkOn Oct. 11, Alfa-Bank announced that it is launching a foreign trade finance pilot transaction, with the cooperation of NLMK, Commerzbank and Vesuvius GmbH using…