Aussies lost $122 million to crypto scams in the last 12 months: AFP

Bitcoin (BTC)’s value appreciation over the past 11 years sets it apart from virtually all of the world’s fiat currencies. Central banks around the globe continue to churn out money, deliberately devaluing existing currency through inflation. They have also had a lot longer than Bitcoin’s 11 years for the effects to accumulate. So how do major…

Vitalii Antonenko is facing up to 20 years in jail for selling sensitive data after the prosecution traced his Bitcoin wallet. 1833 Total views 52 Total shares New York City resident Vitalii Antonenko was charged for allegedly participating in a $94 million Bitcoins-for-cards scheme, according to a May 27 statement from the United States Attorney's…

A hardware wallet’s IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign reached 450% of its target funding amount within two days of launch. 2053 Total views 41 Total shares The NGRAVE ZERO, claimed to be the world’s most secure hardware wallet, launched its crowdfunding campaign for €25,000 ($27,850) on May 26. In the first two days it smashed this total…

Polkadot is gearing up for its upcoming network launch as it revealed an integration with Chainlink (LINK) on Feb. 25. The integration of Chainlink oracles may be crucial for the development of Polkadot decentralized finance (DeFi) and other advanced smart contracts.Chainlink has completed an initial integration on Kusama, a canary network for Polkadot similar to…

The Bitcoin network has mined block 800,000, with just 40,000 left to mine before the network’s next mining reward halving.The 800,000th block contained 3721 transactions at 1.64 megabytes, with the price of Bitcoin (BTC) trading at $29,815 on July 24, as market researcher Dylan LeClair noted on Twitter:#Bitcoin block 800,000. pic.twitter.com/Yw9c6klqbY— Dylan LeClair (@DylanLeClair_) July 24,…

A former senior official of the People’s Bank of China said that the country has completed the backend architecture development of its digital currency. 2606 Total views 68 Total shares The former vice-chair of the People’s Bank of China’s Na­tional Coun­cil for So­cial Se­cu­rity Fund, Wang Zhong­min, announced that China has completed the backend architecture…

There are concerns over ShibaSwap's transparency and security. 1555 Total views 6 Total shares Despite the immediate success of dog-themed decentralized exchange ShibaSwap, there are warnings  the DEX’s liquidity providers are throwing capital into an opaque protocol of questionable security.Building on the popularity of their Dogecoin fork, Shiba Inu (SHIB), amid the Elon-Musk stoked dog-token…

Saturday, Sept. 21 — crypto markets continued to trade sideways, with the majority of the top 20 coins by market cap seeing losses at publishing time.Market visualization. Source: Coin360Bitcoin dominance continues to slipAfter briefly dipping below the $10,000 threshold, Bitcoin (BTC) has bounced back to trade at $10,041 at press time. The major cryptocurrency is…