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A new game known as Cooking Mama: Cookstar is believed to have been hiding a cryptocurrency miner within its code. The game has already been delisted from several U.S. sites and marketplaces such as e-Shop, while other regions – such as Australia – are refusing to even market the game as a result.Cooking Mama May Be Secretly Mining CryptoThe Cooking Mama game has been accused by several users on Twitter of utilizing Switch consoles to mine crypto and the personal information of its players,...

Recently, Live Bitcoin News reported that bitcoin transactions have died down on darknet markets. While this may be true for illicit goods such as guns, drugs and credit card data, illicit market owners have changed their operations up a bit as a means of ensuring they can stay in business.Darknet Sites Are Selling Coronavirus MasksIt has been reported by one source that darknet market owners are selling face masks for bitcoin on their websites to help customers allegedly battle the onslaught...

Bitcoin has once again shot past the $7,000 mark. At the time of writing, the world’s top cryptocurrency by market cap has surged more than $300 and is now trading for approximately $7,150. Just yesterday, the asset was selling for about $6,800.Bitcoin Is Once Again On TopBitcoin has been through the mill these last few weeks, dropping from about $10,350 in mid-February to roughly $3,800 in March. The currency has clearly recovered somewhat since then, but there’s still about $3,000 to go if...

Boeing (BA) stock price increased by 19% on Monday despite the fact that the company will pause operations at its facilities in South Carolina starting on Wednesday.Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) stock on Monday experienced a 19.47% rise as it contributed 16 points (10%) of the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 1,627 point gain. The surge has made the stock become a reference point in its history as in 2020 alone Boeing stock has surged more than it had in the past 39 years.The firm’s share is now used as...

Place/Date: - April 7th, 2020 at 1:54 pm UTC · 2 min read Contact: Vivien Choi, Source: OKEx March was a record-breaking month for the crypto market and exchanges. OKEx, the world’s largest cryptocurrency spot and derivatives exchange, topped the derivatives market in March, according to the Exchange Review March 2020 report by CryptoCompare, the global leader in digital asset data. With month-on-month volume increased to $161 Bn, OKEx has demonstrated steady growth in the past...

Despite serious market problems that stem from the coronavirus outbreak, Samsung predicts a good profit from its first-quarter figures.Because of the coronavirus pandemic, many companies have significantly cut down their expectations for the first quarter of 2020. The pandemic and the resultant lockdown of many cities in many parts of the world, has affected the regular flow of business. This means that these companies cannot perform at their optimum level if they were doing so before....

Ripple and XRP are in the spotlight once again after the news that the U.S. Navy is hiring a firm to create implantable microchips that would be compatible with Ripple’s blockchain.It was a huge breakthrough for Ripple and the XRP community after the company’s blockchain won a big boost from the U.S. Navy. In an interview, the president of Solari Inc., Catherine Austin Fitts, said a year ago the U.S. Navy had hired a Danish tech company to develop an implantable microchip and make it...

Markets across the board are marking tremendous increases since the beginning of the week. The largest indexes are charting notable gains despite the continuously spreading coronavirus as well as other concerns such as the escalating number of job loss claims in the US.The cryptocurrency market follows as absolutely every coin in the top 20 is trading in the green today. Some are even up double-digits.Wall Street RejoiceThis week has been very impressive for Wall Street, to say the least. At...

XRP price has risen by around 8% within the last 24 hours. 211 million XRP has been recently transferred between several wallets with some anonymous and others identified to be owned by corporate investors.As every crypto coin has begun to gain momentum and is rising now, XRP price is also rising. The coin is trading at $0.20 at the time of writing. It means that the coin has gained 7.78% within 24 hours.The crypto has broken above the overhead resistance at $0.18867. If the bulls can sustain...

Bitfarms, a blockchain infrastructure company running one of the largest North America-based mining operations, is cutting staff members. The firm cited the ongoing economic and social turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.Coronavirus Hits Bitcoin Mining Firm In North AmericaThe unexpected outbreak of the COVID-19 harmed people’s health, financial markets, economies, and businesses. Numerous companies had to take radical measures to endure, and the cryptocurrency field is not exempt.Based...