Hackers Target Enterprise Blockchains
When blockchain technology was first brought to the public’s attention, it was lauded on many fronts as “unhackable.” While there are many benefits...
John McAfee Admits Ghost ‘Copy-Pasted’ From PIVX, Threatens Lawsuits
Eccentric cryptocurrency advocate John McAfee admitted his anonymity-oriented project Ghost “copy-pasted” parts of its whitepaper from the documentation for open-source privacy coin PIVX...
AT&T Loses Bid to Dismiss $1.8M Crypto Theft Lawsuit
U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall has rejected AT&T’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the company was negligent for failing to prevent...
Smoke and Mirrors as Mainstream Banks Discourage Clients From Crypto
The crypto space and market cap is a small percentage of the trillions invested through the global equities market or the amount that...
Beware of Imposters Posing As CryptoNewspeople Journalists
Crypto community, be vigilant: CryptoNewspeople has recently noticed an increase in scammers purporting to be our journalists on Telegram, LinkedIn and other social...
US FinCEN Awards Secret Service For Seizing $22 M in Crypto
May 19, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) awarded several federal agencies in the United States, whose joint probe led to the seizure...
BlockFi’s Data Breach May Allow Criminals to Extort Rich Clients
The crypto lending provider BlockFi reported on May 19 to have suffered a data breach that may put some of its clients in...
BitMEX Briefly Goes Offline Amid Legal Problems
Major Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives exchange BitMEX went offline earlier on May 19, citing trading engine failure. The platform was inaccessible for a brief...
BitMEX Faces Lawsuit for Alleged Racketeering and Extensive Illicit Activities
BitMEX, one of the world’s largest crypto derivatives exchanges, has been accused in court of being “deliberately designed, from the ground up” to...
Bitcoin Breakout Hopes, R.I.P. TON, Trump Threatened: Hodler’s Digest, May 11–17
Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes,...
