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Crypto exchange Bittrex is being sued over a SIM swap that netted criminals 100 bitcoin, currently worth nearly $1 million. The case resembles other recent high-profile heists in which a hacker seizes control of a victim’s cell phone to
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"Take your bitcoin and run." Thus read an ominous warning tweeted out by the official BitMEX account on Friday morning. | Source: CNBC/YouTube (i), HenriqueWestin/Shutterstock.com (ii). Image Edited by CCN. Following the mammoth BitMEX user data leak, the bitcoin exchange’s Twitter account was allegedly hacked. While under the perpetrator’s control, the account
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If you have an account with crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, there’s never been a better time to update your security preferences. On Friday at 08:00 UTC, BitMEX alerted its clientele via blog and Twitter that it had accidentally revealed
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Huobi Cloud, part of the crypto exchange Huobi Group, has announced its plan to provide more local financial institutions with white-label exchange services based on cloud technology in the Middle East and Africa. Existing institutions include the Nigeria-based SaBi
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Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance is opening an office in Beijing, two sources with knowledge of the matter told CoinDesk. The new outpost will join Binance’s current mainland China office in Shanghai. It’s not clear what exactly the office will
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Peter Schiff trashed hodlers on Tuesday by claiming that whales are simply just offloading their bags. The gold pundit appears to be indirectly suggesting that bitcoin is the ultimate pump and dump scheme. Bitcoin is still performing excellently in 2019. Peter Schiff is one tough nut to crack. The infamous gold and silver
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Derivatives exchange FTX has launched an index of eight popular China-based cryptocurrencies. Announced in a tweet by the firm’s CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Tuesday, the Dragon Perpetual Futures Index (DRGN-PERP) tracks a basket of coins including BTM, IOST, NEO, NULS,
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Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx is to launch a range of cryptocurrency-based futures contracts settled in the stablecoin tether (USDT). The exchange will support USDT pairs including bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), bitcoin cash (BCH), EOS, XRP, bitcoin SV (BSV) and Tron
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Lebanon is far from a poster child for cryptocurrency adoption. News of Lebanese banks shuttering to prevent a bank run was met with predictable enthusiasm from the global bitcoin commentariat. People in Lebanon can no longer send foreign currencies,
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Bitfinex says it was conned. The crypto exchange and sister company of Tether claimed Friday that it was the “victim of a fraud” at the hands of Crypto Capital, a payment processor that allegedly lost $880 million of Bitfinex’s
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