A security expert has reported that personal data and passwords belonging to users of the GateHub crypto wallet – which makes use of the XRP Ledger protocol – have been dumped onto a hacking community website. Per media outlet Ars Technica and Tony Hunt of the Have I Been Pwned website, the security breach took…
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In the past few sessions, there was a downside extension in bitcoin price below the USD 8,250 and USD 8,050 support levels. BTC/USD even tested the USD 8,000 handle and it is currently (09:00 UTC) correcting higher. However, there are many resistances on the upside near USD 8,250 and USD 8,320. Similarly, most major altcoins…
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Source: iStock/Jui-Chi Chan Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Regulation news Singapore’s financial regulator has proposed green-lighting crypto-token derivatives to list and trade on approved domestic exchanges, Bloomberg reported. Under the proposal, Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin with…
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Binance, the second-biggest crypto exchange, fell out of CryptoCompare’s new exchange rankings due to security concerns. London-based crypto data provider CryptoCompare has updated its crypto Exchange Benchmark, removing Binance cryptocurrency exchange from the list of the top 10 exchanges. Binance, the second biggest crypto exchange by daily trade volume to date, is not included in…
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Online gaming platform Donnerlab lets gamers hunt for Bitcoin and pick-up Satoshi cubes in a fully lightning-native multiplayer first-person shooter game. Donnerlab, an online gaming platform that builds lightning games and applications, lets gamers hunt for Bitcoin (BTC) and pick-up “Satoshi cubes.” Shoot other players and collect satoshis In a tweet on Nov. 19, Donnerlab…
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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service reaffirms its summons on crypto trading platform Coinbase in an income tax investigation as completely legitimate in fresh filing. The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has argued that its summons on major American crypto exchange Coinbase is indeed legitimate in a recent filing. Per a Nov. 15 filing, the…
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The governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) Haruhiko Kuroda has ruled out the possibility of launching a digital yen in the short term, but says the bank will continue to look into digital currency technology should the bank change its stance at a later date. Per media outlet CoinPost, Kuroda also issued a warning…
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Cryptocurrency and blockchain firms are well-represented among a recent KPMG ranking of fintech firms. On Nov. 18, Big Four auditing firm KPMG released its 2019 Fintech100 ranking, which lists the top 100 fintech firms in the world. The list saw a drop in Bitcoin-related companies but reinforced innovation in the payments industry. As was the…
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Security researcher finds that password data and personal information of 1.4 million users of GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service have reportedly been dumped online. A security researcher behind the data breach index site “Have I Been Pwned” said that password data and personal information of 2.2 million users of two websites have been dumped online. On…
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Publicly traded Bitcoin fund Grayscale Bitcoin Trust filed a form with the United States SEC to become the first crypto fund to report to the regulator. Publicly traded Bitcoin (BTC) fund Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) filed Form 10 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to become the first crypto fund to report…
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