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Regardless of the recent Bitcoin scam carried out through a Twitter hack, BTC price remained largely unaffected, only dropping about 1%.Yesterday, 15th July, Twitter accounts of high-profile individuals, companies and crypto exchanges were hacked to post false bitcoin giveaways. The compromised Twitter accounts include prominent names like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates,
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In a paradoxical twist, bitcoin’s price, which is denominated in dollars, has become unusually stable in recent weeks, prompting some Twitter users to joke that it’s trading like a stablecoin. “It’s surprising to see bitcoin be so boring given everything happening both within and outside the crypto industry,” the digital-asset analysis firm
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Quick take:Twitter has experienced one of its greatest hacks to date that has affected accounts of prominent global personalities and companies. The coverage of the Twitter hack by Mainstream media highlights Bitcoin as the digital currency used by criminals. Furthermore, most headlines keep using the phrase ‘Bitcoin Scam’ further denting the reputation
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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
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Someone hacked Twitter Wednesday – and they used bitcoin to capitalize on it. Bitcoin is an alternative money system based on the value of censorship resistance. In other words, Bitcoin was built from the ground up to evade third-party interference (think banks, governments and law enforcement), making it a natural tool
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A large-scale Twitter attack has taken over the accounts of some of the most powerful verified accounts in the world including: Joe Biden, Elon Musk, George Wallace, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Wiz Khalifa, Warren Buffett, Mike Bloomberg, Barack Obama, and Jeff Bezos. Business accounts from Uber, Twitter Support,
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Minutes ago, the Twitter account of Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent out a suspicious message involving Bitcoin. The message read: “I’m feeling generous because of COVID-19. I’ll double any BTC payment sent to my BTC address for the next hour…” Attached was a Segwit Bitcoin address. The message garnered thousands of likes and
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Automated market maker protocol Balancer lost over $450,000 in a hacking incident on Sunday.The firm’s co-founder and CTO, Mike McDonald, confirmed that hackers drained at least two of their pools that contained deflationary tokens STA and STONK.He admitted that hackers exploited security vulnerabilities in those tokens to trick their pools
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The cryptocurrency community has noticed a number of bitcoins from the August 2, 2016, Bitfinex breach has been moved. A small 30 BTC transaction ($282,000) from the stash has moved from the hacker’s address to an unknown bitcoin address. The last time coins from the Bitfinex incident moved was
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Users are accusing Estonian cryptocurrency exchange, Crex24, of hiding the scale of a hack from its users after suspending trade for several altcoin pairings. Crex24’s members claim that the exchange has not given an explanation for its suspension of more than sixty altcoins. The exchange has also frozen withdrawal and
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