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Binance at the center of $100M digital currency scam in Pakistan
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11 January, 2022

Binance at the center of $100M digital currency scam in Pakistan

Over 30,000 investors were reportedly tricked into opening Binance accounts and transferring their digital assets to scammers, and the exchange...
CoinGeek Weekly Livestream: A special edition from the CES Day 2 in Las Vegas
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11 January, 2022

CoinGeek Weekly Livestream: A special edition from the CES Day 2 in Las Vegas

CoinGeek’s Chief Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. returns for Day 2 of CES in Las Vegas, this time broadcasting from...
Kosovo bans digital currency mining after winter blackouts
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11 January, 2022

Kosovo bans digital currency mining after winter blackouts

Kosovo is eliminating all non-essential energy needs, such as block reward mining, after winter-fueled blackouts led the nation to a...
Deadly protests in Kazakhstan lead to 5-day Internet outage, BTC hash rate drops 13%
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11 January, 2022

Deadly protests in Kazakhstan lead to 5-day Internet outage, BTC hash rate drops 13%

Kazakhstan has been experiencing its deadliest protests ever with over 160 dead, and BTC hash rate took a nosedive after...
Crowd Machine ICO hit with fraud charges over $41M token sale in 2018
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11 January, 2022

Crowd Machine ICO hit with fraud charges over $41M token sale in 2018

Founder Craig Derel Sproule allegedly diverted some of the funds to gold mining operations in South Africa after promising to...
Polymarket: CFTC fines and orders digital currency betting service to shut down
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7 January, 2022

Polymarket: CFTC fines and orders digital currency betting service to shut down

Polymarket allowed its users to bet on events such as who wins the U.S. presidential elections or the number of...

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