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[Link] Inspiring: ‘Cryptoqueen’ Breaks Barriers, Becomes First Crypto Criminal on FBI’s Most Wanted List
Read: 4/7/2022 www.vice.com
Ignatova, who ran a pyramid-scheme scam in the form of Bulgarian cryptocurrency company OneCoin Ltd., is the first crypto criminal to land the FBI’s Most Wanted List and the eleventh woman to join the list in its 72-year history.
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[Link] The Crypto Crisis Has Been Very Bad for White Nationalists
Read: 17/5/2022 www.vice.com
But now, Bitcoin and just about every cryptocurrency are in full-on crisis mode, after the crypto market lost roughly $1 trillion in value since November. And some folks on far-right online message boards aren’t taking it particularly well.
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[Link] Harassment at a Bitcoin Conference Highlights Problems of ‘Vicious’ Industry Sexism
Read: 10/5/2022 www.vice.com
At Bitcoin 2022 in Miami, an attendee broke the code of conduct that started a wave of harassment — and a renewed discussion about sexism in the crypto industry.
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[Link] We Filmed at a Bitcoin Conference in 2013. Here's What Those People Are Doing Now
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
This article is a writeup of the first episode of CRYPTOLAND, Motherboard’s documentary series about how cryptocurrency is affecting culture, politics, the environment, and our shared future. Watch it on Motherboard’s YouTube.
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[Link] Lid blown off Conti ransomware gang after leaked internal files analyzed
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theregister.com
It was a Ukrainian security specialist who apparently turned the tables on the notorious Russia-based Conti, and leaked the ransomware gang's source code, chat logs, and tons of other sensitive data about the gang's operations, tools, and costs.
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[Link] Canadian accused of unleashing NetWalker ransomware extradited to US
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theregister.com
US prosecutors on Thursday said they have extradited a Canadian man to America to face charges that he conspired to distribute ransomware. Sébastien Vachon-Desjardins, 34, of Gatineau, Quebec, was detained by Canadian authorities on January 27, 2021.
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[Link] Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, the U.S. government accused Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31 of laundering around $1 billion in cryptocurrency stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. As it turns out, Morgan did not exactly keep the low profile you would expect of an alleged criminal.
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[Link] Ted Cruz, Bitcoin Booster, Bought a Bunch of Bitcoin
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
Increasingly vocal Bitcoin supporter Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) bought the dip, purchasing between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of Bitcoin shortly after it hit its lowest point during a recent sell-off.
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[Link] 'I talk to 20 Australians a day': Meet Frank, his job is to scam you
Read: 8/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
If you answer your phone and Frank* is on the other end of the line, he'll keep you talking for as long as he can. And Frank has already done his homework before calling you in Australia.
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[Link] AOC Says She Doesn't Own Bitcoin to Do Her Job 'Ethically'
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clarified on Instagram that she does not hold any digital assets or tokens, including Bitcoin, and said she doesn’t believe policymakers should be able to hold financial products like stocks.
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[Link] Hardcore Bitcoiners Turn on Ross Ulbricht for Selling an NFT From Prison
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug marketplace the Silk Road that helped put Bitcoin on the map in its earliest days, is minting an NFT.
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[Link] JPMorgan CEO Joked About Outlasting China’s Communist Party. The Fun Didn’t Last Long.
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
America’s most powerful banker has had his fair share of controversial opinions, but rarely has he walked back something as quickly as he did after he joked about the world’s second-most powerful country.
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[Link] Australian cryptocurrency investors can’t be trusted to keep transaction records themselves, the ATO says
Read: 24/11/2021 www.businessinsider.com.au
As first-time investors continue their rush on cryptocurrencies, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) says it can no longer rely on taxpayers to navigate the complex world of income tax, capital gains, and blockchain record keeping on their own.
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[Link] ‘Domino effect’ warning as $200 billion wiped off cryptocurrency market
Read: 16/11/2021 www.news.com.au
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been wiped off cryptocurrencies in a market-wide crash that has brought the price of bitcoin down below $60,000.
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[Link] Swedish Officials Call For EU-Wide Ban On ‘Proof of Work’ Crypto Mining
Read: 16/11/2021 www.vice.com
The call came in a letter published last week signed by the directors of Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority and Environmental Protection Agency, which promotes “stability and efficiency” in the country’s financial system.
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[Link] Hostage-Style Bitcoin Scam Videos Are Spreading Across Instagram
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Hackers are forcing Instagram users to film hostage-style videos instructing their followers to participate in fraudulent get-rich-quick Bitcoin schemes as part of a new kind of scam that is spreading across the Facebook-owned app.
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[Link] Australia's largest bank is getting into cryptocurrency. Here's why its competitors aren't
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
After one major Australian bank this week announced it'll give customers the option of trading crypto currencies, such as Bitcoin, on its existing banking app, you might have expected others to follow. However, they have told the ABC they will not at this stage.
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[Link] Instagram Hacker Forces Victim to Make Hostage-Style Video
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
A hacker is taking over Instagram accounts before forcing their owners to make hostage-style videos promoting the hacker's money-making scams to try and get their money back.
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[Link] Crypto Investors Are Bidding to Touch a 1,784-Pound Tungsten Cube Once a Year
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the latest phase of the quest to turn everything into an NFT, crypto traders are now bidding to digitally own a 1,784 lb cube of tungsten in Willowbrook, Illinois.
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[Link] How hackers hijacked thousands of high-profile YouTube accounts
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Since at least 2019, hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels. Sometimes they broadcast cryptocurrency scams, sometimes they simply auction off access to the account.
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[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.
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[Link] Bitcoin Just Hit an All Time High Price: $67,000
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The price of Bitcoin hit an all time high on Wednesday, one day after the first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) launched. At its height, the cryptocurrency was trading for $67,016.50, several thousand more than its $64,895.22 high in April.
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[Link] Bitcoin Miner Facing $5.6M Fine for Starting Rogue Power Plant
Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com
It started with a mysterious humming noise that sounded like a wave “but 100 times more annoying,” according to local reports.
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[Link] Ted Cruz Says Bitcoin Mining Can Fix Texas' Crumbling Electric Grid
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Texas’ energy grid has problems. Those issues were laid bare this past winter when a storm put the state in a deep freeze, causing blackouts for millions and killing hundreds of people.
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[Link] He escaped the Dark Web’s biggest bust. Now he’s back
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Just over four years ago, the US Department of Justice announced the takedown of AlphaBay, the biggest dark web market bust in history.
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[Link] The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship
Read: 9/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
On the evening of 7 December 2010, in a hushed San Francisco auditorium, former Google engineer Patri Friedman sketched out the future of humanity.
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[Link] Suspected adviser to creator of black market Silk Road arrested in Thailand
Read: 24/8/2021 www.smh.com.au
New York: A Canadian man has been arrested in Thailand for his alleged role as a senior adviser to the creator of Silk Road, an online black market where illegal drugs and other goods were sold, US prosecutors announced on Friday.
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[Link] How a now-defunct site on the dark web led police to the biggest cryptocurrency seizure in Australia
Read: 24/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
They were “quite unremarkable in every way”, police said, living normal lives in the community having never before come to the attention of authorities.
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[Link] The Pirate Bay Earned Millions in Bitcoin Donations (If it HODLed)
Read: 23/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
The Pirate Bay continues to receive a steady stream of Bitcoin donations. Over the past year, these added up to roughly $10 per day, which isn't a life-changing amount.
[Link] Bitcoin In For Bumpy Ride As China Crackdown Shakes Things Up
Read: 22/8/2021 hackaday.com
Bitcoin. The magical internet money is often derided as “worthless” and “made up” by those who forget that all currencies only have value because we believe in them.
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[Link] The Future of Cryptocurrency Is Being Decided in Biden's Infrastructure Bill
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Two competing amendments to the Senate’s infrastructure bill may shape the future of cryptocurrency in the United States as senators fight over who must be subject to new tax reporting requirements.
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[Link] Town Puts 90-Day Ban on New Bitcoin Mines Because They're 'Unsightly'
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
The Massena town board on Wednesday approved the moratorium, as drafted on July 23, to bar new Bitcoin miners from receiving site plan approval. But the miners already established in Massena can continue to operate there.
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[Link] Miami Launches 'MiamiCoin' to Make Millions and Fund the Police
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Thousands of Bitcoiners in June descended on Miami for Bitcoin 2021, a semi-religious event that celebrated all things related to the world’s biggest cryptocurrency.
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[Link] Billionaire Investor Says Bitcoin Is Headed For $0, Which Is Very Far From The Moon
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
Magellan co-founder and veteran investor Hamish Douglass has issued a stark warning that popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin could be heading to zero dollars. Douglass’ warning coincides with his annual letter to Magellan investors.