Crypto-Sec: Phishing scammer goes after Hedera users, address poisoner gets $70K

Mark Carney, a Canadian economist and now Prime Minister-designate, is already under the microscope for his previous remarks regarding cryptocurrency.  Carney, who replaced former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, took a measured and critical approach to cryptocurrencies, namely Bitcoin (BTC), in a 2018 speech he made at the Bank of England. He also shared concerns over

Sunday, Jan. 6 — most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are seeing a mix of moderate gains and losses on the day to press time. Bitcoin’s (BTC) price is currently hovering over $3,850 again, according to Coin360 data.Market visualization from Coin360At press time, Bitcoin is up just a fraction of a percent on the day, trading…

Bitcoin (BTC) circled $25,800 on June 6 as the aftermath of fresh panic over largest exchange Binance lingered.BTC/USD 1-day candle chart on Bitstamp. Source: TradingViewBTC price risks losing multi-month rangeData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it steadied after dropping to near three-month lows.The weakness came as part of a knee-jerk market…

Captain Kirk seems unconvinced that the Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is the inventor of Bitcoin (BTC).William Shatner, the Canadian actor that played Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek series, suggested that Wright is not behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto — the seminal cryptocurrency’s creator. In a tweet on Feb. 11, Shatner said:“Ask yourself…

Ripple (XRP) wallet and gateway-as-a-service provider GateHub has warned that there is a phishing scam campaign targeting its cryptocurrency wallet users, as per an announcement on June 13.According to the announcement, GateHub’s wallet users are being sent malicious emails from addresses that look like they are from GateHub: “@gatehub.com” and “@gatehub.net.”The emails instruct the users…

The milestone was accomplished less than one month after a much-anticipated airdrop. 458 Total views 28 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTAccording to statistics compiled by user @Henrystats on Dune Analytics, the number of accounts, or wallet addresses, for Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Arbitrum (ARB) surpassed 5 million…

The Financial Times' chief correspondent for international finance has argued that central banks can ironically be credited for igniting Bitcoin’s price.In a column for Nikkei Asian Review on Aug. 21, Henry Sender said that banks’ dovish policies are spurring an increasing recognition of cryptocurrencies as safe-haven assets.  Hedging big macro risks with BitcoinAnalysts anticipate more dovish…

Lawmakers in the United States state of California have introduced a bill to allow cannabis-related business to pay fees and taxes in stablecoins. The bill was introduced by the California State Assembly on Feb. 21.Assembly Bill 953 would allow the state, city and county tax offices in California to accept stablecoins — cryptocurrency pegged to…