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A massive scandal occurred on micro-blogging service Twitter yesterday as hacker/s took over popular cryptocurrency and technology accounts to patronize a Bitcoin scam. Hacked Early on Thursday, crypto-exchange Binance tweeted they “partnered up with an organization called CryptoForHealth and that they would be “giving back 5000 BTC to the community.” Similar messages were
Read More[sociallocker id="55298"] In an effort to trim expenses, European fintech outfit Revolut has allegedly urged employees to leave, according to staff interviewed by Wired."Some of the employees allegedly pressured to leave have been left stranded in a foreign country without a job or health insurance in the middle of a
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Cryptocurrency payroll service Bitwage has announced the launch of a Bitcoin 401 (k) plan, allowing companies to give their employees a BTC-based retirement plan.In a press statement, Bitwage, which claims to have tested the product on its own employees for 10 months, said workers now have the ability to
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Just one week after releasing its plan for the coronavirus spread worldwide, Coinbase is recommending its employees prepare for the next phase, and they’re not the only ones.Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong sent out a Tweet to his 300K+ followers on Mar. 2 indicating the crypto firm would be directing
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Oracle employees are protesting Larry Ellison for holding a Donald Trump fundraiser on his private property. Tech employees haven’t shied away from political activism, even against their employers. That doesn’t make their protests any less hypocritical. We’d already seen it at Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Now it’s happening at
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The California Supreme Court has found Apple guilty of breaking the law when it refused to pay its workers for mandatory searches at the end of their shifts. Tim Cook has a major PR problem on his hands after being ridiculed in the court decision. Sitting on a monster $207 billion cash
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is defending a former Kraken employee embroiled in a lawsuit over an anonymous review of the crypto exchange on Glassdoor.The EFF – a non-profit digital rights group – has taken up the cause of a John Doe defendant and is asking California's Marin County Superior
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Chinese state media Sina is reporting that Bitcoin mining behemoth Bitmain is considering laying off up to half of its employees as the company envisages economic consequences of the coming Bitcoin halving event. Meanwhile, the legal tussle between the co-founders of the firm continues with ousted chief Micree Zhan filing
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Payments company Circle has reportedly laid off another ten employees, following the news that its CEO Sean Neville quit his position — events that the firm says are unlinked.On Dec. 11, a Circle representative told CryptoX ”we've streamlined some departments and eliminated about 10 roles.” The spokesperson confirmed that
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An act of paternalism or a case of generic Bitcoin (BTC) distrust? It is hard to make out the exact reasons for Nordea Bank’s ban on its 31,500 employees trading in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies — even on their own time — a prohibition that was upheld on Dec.
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