Business 16 August 2018

High Times snubs BTC in its public offering

Contrary to earlier reports, marijuana advocacy publication High Times Holding Corp. will refuse offers in BTC during its initial public offering (IPO), according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Business 24 July 2018

‘Exit scamming’ gaming literally feeds on users’ greed to bulk up pot money

FOMO3D simulates how pump and dump ICOs work: people dump money, and somebody runs away with it while the rest are left with nothing.

Business 18 July 2018

Twitter says it’s banning scammers, so why are ETH bots still running amok?

Twitter is on a banning spree, deleting fraudulent accounts in the millions. Yet there are still a significant number of ETH scammers running fake and lookalike accounts on the platform.

Business 10 July 2018

Security breach leads to $13M worth of crypto losses for Bancor exchange

Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Bancor has reported a security breach that resulted in the loss of an estimated $13.5 million worth of cryptocurrencies.​

Business 15 June 2018

Decentralized cryptocurrencies are not securities, SEC exec says

An SEC official declared that cryptocurrencies like BTC and ETH are not considered securities under federal regulations.​

Tech 28 May 2018

Taylor app loses $1.5M worth of ETH in recent hack

Cryptocurrency trading app Taylor has fallen victim to a hack, resulting in the loss of 2,578 ETH worth about $1.5 million as well as 7 percent of its total TAY token supply.

Business 21 May 2018

Tether issues another $250M worth of new USDT tokens

Tether, which trades at around 1:1 with the U.S. dollar, has just printed a quarter of a billion USDT tokens, according to the Omni Explorer.

Business 2 May 2018

Japan’s SBI Holdings to launch crypto exchange in summer 2018

SBI Holdings will launch its SBI Virtual Currencies exchange, allowing investors to trade in Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), and BTC.