US Treasury sanctions 3 North Korean hacking groups By TAMI ABDOLLAH | Fri, September 13, 2019 02:20 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Three North Korean hacking groups suspected of perpetrating cyberattacks around the world were placed on a U.S.sanctions list on Friday, drawing attention to the isolated nation’s illegal efforts to fund its nuclear and ballistic…
Month: September 2019
BitShares Reaches 24-Hour Trading Volume of $1.88 Million (BTS)
BitShares (CURRENCY:BTS) traded 1.6% higher against the US dollar during the one day period ending at 17:00 PM E.T.on September 14th.One BitShares coin can now be bought for about $0.0339 or 0.326 BTC on popular exchanges including CoinTiger, Indodax, LBank and YoBit.BitShares has a market capitalization of $92.85 million and approximately $1.88 million worth of…
I tried to play the stock market and it went terribly wrong
Playing share trading games is good fun and informative, but we should all just stick to cheap tracker funds Image I have learnt that I am a terrible share trader. Working in financial journalism and constantly reading investment information, I had pondered for some time whether this fund management malarkey was really such a big…
France will attempt to block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency on European soil
Country officials say unresolved privacy issues could pose a risk to consumers.| Topic: Security US lawmakers don’t trust Facebook’s Libra They say Facebook has a “pattern of failing to keep consumer data private.” France says the country will move to block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency from becoming established in Europe until outstanding consumer and financial concerns…
Big Pharma is abusing patents, and it’s hurting Americans (opinion)
Garrett Johnson is the co-founder of Lincoln Network.Wayne T.Brough is the president of the Innovation Defense Foundation.The opinions are their own. The American patent system has, since our nation’s founding, served as a cornerstone of innovation.But the pharmaceutical industry’s willingness to undermine this system is having real consequences for American patients. The skyrocketing cost of…
Hodl Hodl Wants You to Clone Its P2P Bitcoin Exchange
Hodl Hodl plans to make its software freely available so anyone can launch their own version of the peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange. Announced Saturday at the Baltic Honeybadger conference in Riga, Latvia, the plan is, in part, a recognition that Hodl Hodl’s business model is vulnerable to regulatory crackdowns. “History teaches us that if a government…
A DIY Bitcoin hardware wallet for $110? This developer explains how
A DIY Bitcoin hardware wallet for $110? This developer explains how Nawaz Sulemanji Reblog Justin Moon, founder and instructor at Bitcoin workshop BUIDL Bootcamp , has created a do-it-yourself Bitcoin hardware wallet—that can be bought in parts for $110.The device, currently called the BitBoy, can send and receive bitcoins.On top of the basics, it has…
BitcoinOil Advances in Groundbreaking Algorithm Development and Unveils Details of its Hodlers Rewards Program
ZUG, Switzerland , Aug.21, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — BitcoinOil GmbH.( http://www.bitcoinoil.com ) announces further details of its “Optimally Improved Ledger” (OIL) and unveils the final details of its forthcoming algorithm.Historically, Bitcoin (BTC) has been extremely volatile, which BitcoinOil believes limits its capabilities for mass adoption and in turn its usefulness as a medium of exchange and…
Blockchain.com Partners Polkadot; Aims at Cross-Blockchain Interoperability And User Empowerment
Blockchain.com announced its partnership with Polkadot Network on 20 th Aug.The Luxembourg based crypto data supplier and crypto wallet platform- Blockchain.com revealed that the main objective behind this partnership is to grow the network to strengthen the ‘user-governance and interoperability.’ This will further speed up the process of mass-adoption and decentralization of Polkadot tokens, i.e.‘DOTs.’…
4 Reasons Why Ethereum Classic Is Soaring — Up 40% This Week
Ethereum Classic (ETC) price has surged 40% this week on several bullish news stories, according to data from Coin360 . Over the past seven days, ETC price has climbed from around $5.50 to roughly $7.30 by press time.It now sits in the number sixteen spot by market capitalization between Chainlink (LINK) and DASH.Ethereum Classic 7-day…