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Swiss blockchain startup, Nym Technologies, has invited the general public to take part in the next phase of its mixnet platform’s user testing on April 8.The privacy infrastructure promises advanced protection against mass-surveillance, and comes at a time when governments globally are expanding their powers in the name of
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Facebook and Instagram filed suit against a user who, they allege, operated a cloaking service that allowed ads for a range of scams to slip through the advertisement reviews for both platforms.Facebook’s accusations and request for reliefIn a civil complaint filed with a federal court in San Francisco on
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Hacked cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia today informed its users that the High Court of New Zealand has delivered its judgment on the status of their compromised assets.In a tweet thread published on April 8, the exchange shared the 74-page court document detailing the judgment, summarizing:“Today, 8 April 2020, Justice Gendall
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TSB Games, the firm behind VR game The Sandbox, announced a partnership with second-layer scaling solution Matic.According to a March 19 announcement, Matic will allow the decentralized application (DApp) to carry out faster transactions and create a better user experience. The partnership is also meant to better facilitate decentralized
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Crypto exchanges have become the most powerful stakeholders in the crypto ecosystem. Currently, just 12 crypto exchanges hold around 2.5 million Bitcoin (BTC) in their wallets, worth around $15 billion. That’s 13.8% of all Bitcoin mined to date — or, 16%–17% of all Bitcoin in circulation, considering lost Bitcoin
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Sparkswap, a decentralized exchange backed by Pantera Capital, announced it is shutting down on March 17. The exchange cited a weak user base as the catalyst for its decision to cease operations.The platform has shut its doors to new customers and will put an end to all trading services
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Decentralized derivatives exchange Digitex has fallen victim to a significant data breach believed to have exposed the email addresses and possibly other information of more than 8,000 users.A former employee stole private information for more than 8,000 users, Christina Comben, who heads Digitex's communications, said Friday. Comben told CoinDesk the
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The more widespread cryptocurrency becomes – the more fraud involving it is happening in the industry. The majority of scammers are drawn to cryptocurrency exchangers, because they present the highest concentration of cryptocurrency.A cryptocurrency exchanger is a service where people can exchange traditional fiat currency into cryptocurrency and vice versa,
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Troubled crypto exchange Cobinhood has announced it is shutting down – but just temporarily, it seems.In a "shutdown notice" on its website on Friday, the firm stated:COBINHOOD Exchange is shutting down and auditing all accounts' balances from Jan 10 to Feb 9 in 2020. It will be re-opened on Feb
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A security researcher was able to use a bug in the Twitter Android app to identify millions of Twitter users, connecting their phone numbers to their Twitter IDs. The exploit could expose failures in the company's two-factor authentication system and give other security developers pause.According to a TechCrunch report, the
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