LastPass threat actor steals $5.4M from victims just a week before Xmas

In April 2020 Vin Armani packed up his family “and got on the last flight to an obscure island in the middle of the Pacific”.The cryptocurrency influencer suggested to his 14,000 Twitter followers, many times, that the pandemic is being used to impose “totalitarian tyranny” on America. As the CTO of CoinText, he was worried…

In 2020, the Ethereum Foundation sold 100,000 ETH, and the price surged over 500% in the months following. There’s no telling what will happen this time. 

Pantera Capital Founder and CEO Dan Morehead has predicted Bitcoin will “come of age” during the 2020 financial crisis and may top its all time high price within 12 months.The San Francisco-based blockchain and cryptocurrency hedge fund founder made the comments in a March 25 letter to investors examining the fallout from the COVID-19 financial…

Saeed Zarandi, Iranian Assistant Minister of Industry, Trade, and Supply, said that US Congress is working to stop Iran’s access to cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin (BTC) mining, as reported by local news service Al-Fars on July 6.According to Zarandi, Congress considers cryptocurrency a tool for evading sanctions and money laundering, and is therefore trying to legislate…

Creditors of hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox began filing civil rehabilitation claims Thursday, August 23 in a fresh attempt to retrieve their lost bitcoins. An online claims submission process released by trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi details the various prerequisites for the exchange’s creditors, who now have until October 22 to submit a filing. The news…

Indians are flocking to cryptocurrency due to high remittance fees and the difficulty of exchanging rupees to a more stable currency. 480 Total views 14 Total shares A recent report highlights that India’s growing demand for cryptocurrencies is driven by the need for lower remittance fees and a more stable currency to store value. The cryptocurrency…

Cooperation with the US Treasury sanctions on Tornado Cash was strongest at the user level and weaker further along the settlement chain.

‘Smart card’ crypto wallet manufacturer Tangem has received a $15 million investment from major Japanese financial services firm SBI Group, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reports on April 24. The new investment will purportedly allow Tangem to relocate its headquarters to the ‘Crypto Valley’ of Zug, Switzerland.From Zug, Tangem want to develop new use cases for its…