Binance under scrutiny for seizing Palestinian crypto funds

Research from a cybersecurity firm unveiled a type of ransomware that impersonates the FBI. 2733 Total views 44 Total shares A report from cybersecurity firm Check Point unveiled a new ransomware attack, where cybercriminals pose as the FBI to demand victims pay their "fine" by credit card. According to the April 28 report, the malware —…

Bitcoin (BTC) futures volumes on digital asset platform Bakkt have hit a new all-time high, with 452 BTC futures contracts traded at press time.Per historical data from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) — the operator of Bakkt — today the platform has traded 441 Bitcoin futures contracts for November 2019, with the last recorded trading price settling…

United States-based Bitcoin (BTC)-supporting payments firm Square has been named Yahoo Finance company of the year, according to a report from the media outlet Dec. 18.As Yahoo Finance reports, $26 billion market cap payments company — founded by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey in 2009 — has reportedly seen its stock go up 72 percent…

She also warned that generative artificial intelligence was like the “kid that got an ‘F’ in math.”

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said in a question and answer session hosted by the Cato Institute on Sept. 8 that the central bank will continue to hike rates until inflation is under control. However, these comments did not rattle the markets as much as most would have anticipated, indicating that traders might have already…

When my eyes weren’t burning, working in the metaverse was actually pretty cool. I didn’t get much work done, though. by Felix Ng 8 min November 14, 2023 Share Share Share Share I just spent an entire week working in virtual reality using the new Meta Quest 3. While the experience still mostly sucked, I

The job involves investigating crypto fraud, money laundering and other blockchain-based crime performed by organized groups. 584 Total views 3 Total shares The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) wants to expand its digital assets investigation team by hiring four senior investigators for its Complex Financial Crime Team to work on crypto-related crimes.The position involves…

The Taproot upgrade was set for deployment after achieving a 90% consensus among the Bitcoin miners (mining nodes). 1503 Total views 5 Total shares Real-world use cases are one of the main adoption drivers for every crypto ecosystem, which also holds true for the Bitcoin (BTC) network. In the next seven days, the Bitcoin protocol…

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, made it crystal clear that Twitter will never join Facebook’s Libra project."Nothing within Libra had to be a cryptocurrency”On Oct. 24, per a Twitter thread by Hollywood Reporter editor Alex Weprin, who was covering an event at Twitter's New York office, Jack Dorsey made it abundantly clear that…