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The initial announcement that Amazon would start accepting Bitcoin payments caused a spike in the coin’s price.Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) has openly rejected claims by a British newspaper, City A.M., that it would start accepting Bitcoin payments by the end of the year.The report by City A.M. was distributed freely
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Amazon has refuted recent speculation it may be readying to support Bitcoin payments, asserting it currently has no plans for BTC.According to a Reuters report on July 27 citing a spokesperson from the firm, Amazon remains interested in the crypto industry but has no specific plans to onboard digital assets
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XRP, the digital currency that is central to the SEC onslaught, has caught on a new fire fueled by the latest victory Ripple inked.Judge Sarah Netburn, a United States Magistrate Judge has handed blockchain payments firm Ripple Labs yet another victory over the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As
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Huobi said Monday the rumors alleging one of its senior executives had been arrested were false.“We have become aware of rumors within our community about the arrest of a Huobi senior executive by local officials,” the company told CryptoX. “We can share with confidence that these rumors are false. All
Read MoreJuan Benet, the creator of blockchain-based data storage platform Filecoin, has called allegations that miners of its token have been on strike since last week “nonsense.”According to a report by 8btc.com, five of the largest Filecoin miners turned off thousands of rigs to protest the platform's economic model. Under this system,
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A court in China has denied an appeal by bitcoin mining giant Bitmain seeking $30 million in damages from the three co-founders of Poolin, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining pools. The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court issued a ruling on the appeal on Aug. 31 and made it
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and 17 other victims have sued Youtube and Google for allowing, promoting, and profiting from bitcoin giveaway scams. However, Youtube insists that it is not at fault for scammers using its video-sharing platform for cryptocurrency giveaway scams and other fraudulent schemes.Steve Wozniak and 17 Victims
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Plutus, a crypto finance app founded in 2015, denied social media reports that its database was compromised by a hacking attack launched by alleged threat actors.On July 9, Israel-based threat intelligence firm, Sixgill, published an alert through their official Twitter account which stated that hackers have been sharing a database
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A source close to Plaid, the company that serves as a “data plumber” to Coinbase, Robin Hood, Square’s Cash App and many others, denied all allegations of the class action complaint that was recently filed.The entire complaint hinges on the allegation that Plaid sells user data to the “highest bidder”.
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Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto candidate and chief scientist at NChain, has addressed the recent allegations about him hacking the now-defunct exchange Mt. Gox. Last week, a lead maintainer of Monero (XMR) privacy coin Ricardo Spagni tweeted out court documents suggesting Craig Wright's affiliation with a Mt. Gox-related Bitcoin (BTC)
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