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Cardano’s price took turn for the worse after the much-anticipated Vasil upgrade, as it fell to the lowest level since February 2021. ADA is currently on the way to posting the seventh red monthly candle in a row. The ADA price correction gained traction in the wake of a downtrend across the digital asset market spurred by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes to suppress rising inflation. In fact, ADA declined by over 20% since the hard fork, which aimed at...

Hackers are once again taking advantage of social networks to do their thing. This time, they compromised the official Twitter account of a popular crypto exchange to promote a phishing scam. Around midnight on October 21, PeckShieldAlert reported that the official Twitter account of Gate.io was hacked to promote a scam simulating a Giveaway of up to 500,000 USDT in rewards. The fraudulent tweet by Gate.io. Image: Peckshield via TwitterThe tweet posted by the hackers offered...

The person who stole unreleased songs by Ed Sheeran and other musicians has been sent to prison for a year and a half. He sold at least two of Sheeran’s songs on the dark web in exchange for bitcoin. Jailed After Selling Unreleased Songs The investigation began in 2019 when several musical agents complained to the New York District Attorney that someone had exploited the online accounts of some of their clients. The unknown hacker, called Spirdark, began stealing unreleased...

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued Larry Dean Harmon, the founder of defunct cryptocurrency mixer Helix, for failing to pay a civil penalty of $60 million since his indictment in 2020.  The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday. According to the filing, the $60 million fine was imposed on Harmon after he pled guilty to charges against him in 2020. Helix Laundered Over $300M In December 2019, the Financial...

The Turkish authorities reportedly detected an illicit betting organization that used cryptocurrencies to launder crime funds. Following the investigation, law enforcement agents arrested 46 individuals involved in the scheme and confiscated $40 million worth of digital assets. ‘This Is Just the Beginning’ According to a local coverage, the Turkish police have detained the suspects across various regions in the country, including the capital Ankara, Kayseri, Van, Yozgat, and...

Scams, scams, and more scams. It appears that’s all the digital currency space is associated with as of late… That and falling prices. The idea of scams lessening anytime soon isn’t taking hold, especially now that police in the town of Edmonton say they’re looking to assist victims of a crypto fraud case that ultimately saw nearly $6 million in digital funds being wiped from their portfolios. Scams in the Crypto Space Are Still Too Prominent The scam in question has...

Following news that both BlackRock and Fidelity have entered the digital currency market, many institutional analysts have predicted that within the next six months, bitcoin will reach a price of about $35,000 per unit, while Ethereum will jump into the $2,000 range. How Much Has Bitcoin Lost? On paper, this doesn’t look all that spectacular. After all, bitcoin – just 11 months ago – was trading at a new all-time high of approximately $68,000 per unit, so $35,000 would...

A crypto trader was taken by surprise after hackers reportedly siphoned more than a million dollars worth of digital assets from his FTX account by exploiting an API connected to the trading account.  According to reports, the FTX user discovered that his account using the 3Commas API, has traded the DMM: Governance (DMG) token more than 5,000 times, leading to the loss of about $1.6 million worth of assets, including Bitcoin, Ether, and FTX tokens. FTX and 3Commas Deny...

A new report suggests that bitcoin is bad: very bad. It’s so bad for the environment, it’s on par with hardcore beef production, and it’s far worse than gold mining. Bitcoin and Beef… The Former’s Worse? The paper is co-authored by Benjamin A. Jones, an associate professor of economics at the University of New Mexico. In a recent interview, he commented: [This energy use] is because of the proof of work production process that [bitcoin] uses. Miners all over the world...