Tag Archives: Cryptocurrency News

A group of hackers used sim swapping to steal BTC. He and his anonymous friends used sim swapping technology since 2016 to target cryptocurrency users. Anthony Faulk got access to the funds of numerous victims, using sim-related credentials. Many of the cryptocurrency teachers travel around the U.S. It is easy for someone with a bad attitude to find out the telephone number of some crypto celebrities. Then, hackers create a copy of a sim-card and send the coins from associated accounts to...

Disney claims that Tron Foundation leader Justin Sun makes use of their TRON trademark. The movie studio has restricted him from achieving the trademarks on certain brand names.Judge rejected three applications including the one concerning the “TRON” trademark on November 6, 2019. Disney’s representation of the situation is that Chinese billionaire Sun is using dirty tricks to promote his coin. Specifically, he paid the designers to make the TRON cryptocurrency logo to look similar to the one...

Just.Game, set to launch on December 22, is the name and domain of the new venture from the wizards behind last year’s blockchain melting FOMO 3D. At its peak, the runaway success of the FOMO 3D dApp slowed the Ethereum network to a crawl and sparked serious FOMO from players intent on scooping its ever-growing jackpot.Just.Game promises to pick up where its predecessor left off, only this time around, TRON will carry the strain. Team Just selected TRON on account of its better scalability...

As we are coming to the end of this year, we can conclude that it has been interesting, in the way. For some, it was successful, for some, not so good. Be it as it may, if you’ve made bets Ripple – you were probably in the first group.Ripple, the company that actively uses XRP in its solutions, has definitely positioned itself strongly during the last few months as one of the most important companies for the crypto sector as well as the whole blockchain technologies scene.In its official...

Ripple is ending this year in high class. The company announced on Friday it managed to raise $200 million in Series C funding. This investment presents the last stone in a road marking this the record “Ripple year” regarding its business. It also proves the blockchain technology’s worth in improving global payments and the higher advantage when it comes to the digital asset XRP and the XRP Ledger.As per the official announcement, the Series C was led by the investment company Tetragon and...

Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper says the bitcoin price will skyrocket to $250,000 soon after the May 2020 ‘halving’ event. As astounding as that sounds, Draper’s projections are in line with bitcoin’s historical trend. Draper correctly predicted the ‘crypto winter’ bear market of 2018-2019 in September 2018. He’s made over $200M from BTC so far. When Tim Draper talks about good tech investments with enormous profit potential, markets listen. Some of the Silicon Valley...

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) was adopted by a Burger King restaurant in Slovenia, making it the first cryptocurrency to be transactable in physical Burger King stores. A video posted to social media on Friday shows two Bitcoin Cash users pay for their food using BCH from their mobile wallets. Burger King Goes Crypto Slovenia has become a cryptocurrency hotspot in recent years. Already over 300 merchants accept BCH as a payment method. The adoption of BCH in Slovenia was sped up by the...

According to Arianna Simpson, founder and managing partner at ASP, Binance just increased the heat on the staking market. It offers 0% staking fees for the XTZ fans, a week after Coinbase‘s announcement of XTZ support. This is the beginning of a staking war, where centralized players take operational costs on themselves and achieve brand recognition, new clients and centralization of the future market.1/ Coinbase adds automatic staking for XTZ, and less than a month later, Binance introduces...

It seems that Libra developers are pretty serious when it comes to launching next year. The Libra Association announced it has published its second, 2.0. roadmap for Libra Core, the initial software that supports the planned Libra network. Even though there are many regulatory uncertainties, and there are no concrete dates for an actual launch, Facebook‘s Libra is continuing to build up its community.As per the recent blog post, the project seems to be still operational and already tests its...

Alexander Holmes, CEO of MoneyGram, the main money transfer organization, as of late talked about his joint effort with Ripple, much the same as Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, anticipates that the world’s biggest banks should adopt digital forms of money in 2020.It is accepted that 2020 will be the year when digital forms of money proceed to wider growth, and not every person can endure.In the recent interview, Holmes said that their joint effort with Ripple could change the payment...