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“At this point in our investigation, we’ve come to the conclusion that the leak did not come from CoinMarketCap servers,” CMC said on its blog. “As no passwords are included in the data we have seen, we believe that it is most likely sourced from another platform where users may
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Informants who want to make quick bulk in cryptocurrency now have the opportunity. The US State Department offers rewards for people who’ll share information on hackers operating on the dark web. The government sees their activities as a threat to the United States. As such, it is setting aside a total
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Chainlink (LINK) oracles have made their way to xDai, an Ethereum sidechain that has seen growing adoption among DApp developers who cannot afford to stay on the Ethereum mainnet. As announced by Chainlink on Thursday, its price feeds are live on the xDai mainnet, offering price data for an initial
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A Wisconsin woman has been charged for trying to solicit a murder over the dark web paid for with bitcoin.According to a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Monday, Kelly Harper, 37, used a dark web site to pay the administrator to have a man tracked down and then killed.
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Bitcoin initially became popular as a way to pay for illegal goods on the dark web marketplace the Silk Road. But just recently as cryptocurrencies enter the mainstream media once again, the current most active marketplace on the dark net has ditched Bitcoin in favor of Monero. Here’s why Bitcoin’s use
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A 34-year-old Australian man accused of running the world’s largest dark web marketplace has been arrested by German authorities close to the Danish border.According to a report from Europol on Wednesday, the DarkMarket site was taken offline on Monday following a probe by German investigators with the assistance of Europol
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New research from the cryptocurrency wallet ZenGo has shed additional light on front-running attacks happening on the Ethereum blockchain. First outlined in “Ethereum Is a Dark Forest,” DeFi investors Dan Robinson and Georgios Konstantopoulos called attention to a variety of attacks by bots that were roving the Ethereum blockchain in search
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Satoshi Nakamoto intended Bitcoin to be used for online payments. But it never caught on as a mainstream payments option.The main hurdle to widespread adoption of bitcoin-as-cash is its wild, and potentially lucrative, price changes. This roller coaster problem isn’t going to disappear. Which means the only way for bitcoin
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The number of Robinhood-related emails for sale outnumber those for other brokerages by about 5-to-1, the report says. Source
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“The mempool is a dark forest,” proclaims Ryan Sean Adams, author of the “Bankless” newsletter. And he goes on to paint a picture of a dangerous place full of predators – arbitrage bots, front-runners and the like:“They hide in the mempool waiting to attack. They monitor any and all transactions
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