COVID-19 Archives - Page 6 of 7

Adult Industry Crypto Transactions Are Up in COVID-19 Quarantine

April 6, 2020

Because of the ongoing coronavirus quarantine, a lot of people (perhaps even you, dear reader) are stuck at home these days. As such, online entertainment is on the rise–reports from China say that online gam...

Dark Web Marketplace Bans Vendors Selling Fake COVID-19 Vaccines For BTC

April 6, 2020

Dark web marketplace Monopoly Market has reportedly taken a stance against those trying to profit off of the COVID-19 outbreak, banning any vendor trying to take advantage of the pandemic. According to The...

Ripple Co-Founder Chris Larsen Fully Recovers From COVID-19

April 4, 2020

Chris Larsen, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Fintech firm Ripple announced that he had "made a full recovery" from COVID-19. Chris Larsen was born in San Francisco, California, and got his bachelor's...

BtoBet Launches New Covid-19 Strategy For Sports Betting

April 4, 2020

Platform provider BtoBet has announced its new strategy for operators to adjust for the lack of sports betting revenue following the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. With almost all sports across the...

Betgenius Falls Victim To Ukrainian Fixture Fraud

April 3, 2020

Betgenius, the sports betting subsidiary of Genius Sports Group, has admitted that it was the victim of fraud, after a series of matches scouted by the supplier were found to have been organised fraudulentl...

Scientific Games Renews Deal With Lotto Bayern

April 1, 2020

Scientific Games has signed a four-year extension to its technology contract with long-term partner Staatliche Lotterieverwaltung (Lotto Bayern), the state lottery of the German state of Bavaria. Under the...

Jefferies’ CFO Peg Broadbent Passes Away from COVID-19

March 30, 2020

Investment bank Jefferies Financial Group today announced that Peg Broadbent, CFO at the company, has passed away from COVID-19 complications. Broadbent joined Jefferies in New York in 2007. He moved to the ...

Porn Views Have sharply Increased In Some Countries Since Coronavirus Quarantines

March 29, 2020

Adult sites have been experiencing increased traffic recently as the number of people under lockdown or quarantine rises due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many of these sites accept cryptocurrencies, includi...

Tyler Winklevoss, CEO And Co-Founder Of Gemini Calls Bitcoin A ‘Vaccine’

March 27, 2020

Tyler Winklevoss, the CEO and Co-Founder of digital asset exchange Gemini, said in a recent Tweet that he thinks of Bitcoin as a “Vaccine”. An important member of the cryptocurrency community on Twitter wh...

Flutter and TSG Merger On Track Despite Covid-19 Pandemic

March 27, 2020

Flutter Entertainment, the parent company of Paddy Power Betfair, has said its proposed mega-merger with The Stars Group (TSG) remains on track despite the outbreak of novel coronavirus (Covid-19), with the t...