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Ransomware Hackers Suspend Attacks On Healthcare During Pandemic

March 20, 2020

Many ransomware operators are avoiding targeting medical institutions amid the spread of COVID-19, according to info-security website BleepingComputer, who recently “reached out” – to a number of known purvey...

2 Canadians Sentenced To Jail For Allegedly Stealing 23 BTC Via A Twitter Scam

March 19, 2020

Two Canadian nationals have been sentenced to two years in jail in the United States over a bitcoin scam run via the microblogging platform Twitter. The alleged scammers, Karanjit Singh Khatkar, and Jagroop ...

Steem Jumps 140% Ahead of Hard Fork To Launch Hive Network

March 19, 2020

The price of the Steem token has jumped nearly 140% over the last 24-hour period as the cryptocurrency’s community is going ahead with a hard fork to launch the Hive network. According to CryptoCompare dat...

Kraken Plans to Expand Indian Services Amid Banking Ban Lift

March 19, 2020

Kraken, a United States-based crypto exchange, is planning to expand its operations to the Indian market with its digital asset trading services. Announced on Monday, this decision came after the recent verd...

Amelia Tomasicchio Knighted Chevalier by Crypto Chain University’s ‘Order of Arts & Technology’

March 18, 2020

Today, Crypto Chain University's ‘Ordre des Arts et Technologies’, when translated from French to English means 'Order of Arts & Technology', officially commissioned Amelia Tomasicchio, as Chevalier, to c...

Rapper Akon Shares Whitepaper For His Upcoming Akoin Project

March 18, 2020

Grammy-nominated rapper and entrepreneur Akon has shared the whitepaper for his cryptocurrency project “Akoin.” According to a report by CoinTelegraph, the news outlet was able to receive a copy of the whi...

New York Woman Sentenced To 13 Years In Prison After Pleading Guilty To Funding ISIS

March 18, 2020

A New York woman has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to providing the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) with funding via bitcoin. According to a report by the U.S. Departmen...

Coinbase Card Now Available For Android Users

March 17, 2020

Cryptoasset exchange Coinbase now allows people with Android-powered phones to add the Coinbase debit card to their Google Pay wallets. Google Pay gives Coinbase Card customers a fast, secure way to pay us...

NameSilo Sells $800,000 In BTC Ahead Of Sell-Off

March 17, 2020

NameSilo, a domain name provider that accepts bitcoin as a payment method, has offloaded over $800,000 worth of the flagship cryptocurrency last month, ahead of the sell-off that nearly cut BTC’s price in h...

BlockFi Hikes Interest Yield on Bitcoin and Ether Deposits

March 17, 2020

BlockFi, New Jersey-based provider crypto-backed lending products, is making changes to the interest paid based on the yield it generates from lending Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), effective April 1. BlockF...