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Money Mules (Bildquelle: SKP) Aktuell warnt die Polizei eindringlich vor Gelwäschern: Kriminelle suchen über diverse Online-Plattformen, via Social Media oder Zeitungsinseraten nach «Money Mules» (dt. Geldesel), deren Bankkonten sie für ihre Zwecke, die Verschiebung von deliktisch erwirtschaftetem Geld, nutzen können. Die Anzeigen sprechen häufig Personen an, die auf Jobsuche sind oder sich in finanziellen Engpässen befinden. Doch hier ist...

Did Facebook buy bitcoin? There is a rumor moving about online that the world’s biggest social media platform may have added the biggest digital currency by market cap to its balance sheet. There Is Talk That Facebook Bought BTC While at the time of writing these ideas are unproven, Facebook adding bitcoin to its playbook would be both surprising and unsurprising at the same time. For one thing, many largest institutions have been purchasing the digital currency in...

Facebook’s quarterly SEC filing has no mention of Bitcoin, let alone of a Bitcoin purchase, defying market expectations. For a few days leading up to Facebook’s earnings reported today, there was talk that the world’s most famous social network was about to purchase billions of dollars in Bitcoins: those rumors turned out to be precisely that – just rumors. Why did people think Facebook was about to buy Bitcoin? Several news outlets, including leading sources such as FOX, ran...

Bitcoin Trading Foto CC0 Gemeinfrei via Unsplash Es ist super bequem unde jeder hat ein Smartphone heutzutag; Bitcoin kaufen und verkaufen geht einfacher denn je. Der Handel mit Kryptowährungen wird immer beliebter. Und jetzt kommt’s: Bitcoin-Trading-Apps haben jetzt sogar Facebook und Twitter in den Appstores verdrängt. Das Bitcoin-Comeback Vor einem Jahr sah es so aus, als wäre die Erfolgsgeschichte der Kryptowährungen bereits vorbei....

New social media platforms are popping up all over the place as of late, and one – Uhive – is powered by cryptocurrency.Uhive Is Doing Things a Little DifferentlyBased in the United Kingdom, Uhive is a unique social platform in that it is powered entirely by digital currency technology. Recently, the company set out on a funding round of 500,000 pounds, which it easily surpassed. Either people are terribly sick of the likes of Facebook and Twitter – which they probably should be, given how...

Despite nearly two years of delays and several regulatory hurdles, Facebook’s Libra – now called Diem – is still looking to carve out a place for itself in the crypto space.Diem Is Still Trying to Move ForwardFacebook first entered the cryptocurrency environment in June of 2019, announcing that it was looking to establish a global payment system and unveil a new digital asset it was calling Libra that could potentially be utilized to purchase goods and services through the social media...

While Bitcoin has increased by a total of around 400% since the March lows, the picture doesn’t appear as bright in the short-term as it draws away from $20,000.Over the past seven days, the cryptocurrency lost over $1,000 of its dollar value, charting a decrease of about 5%.During the week, BTC managed to increase to above $19,300, but, unfortunately, it was all downhill from there. The cryptocurrency touched a low of $17,650 yesterday before recovering slightly to its current level of...

Facebook’s new Libra cryptocurrency project has had a hard time getting off the ground, and considering it’s still getting a lot of raised eyebrows and distrusting looks from international financial leaders, it looks like things are set to remain somewhat difficult for the asset to roll out.Libra May Encounter Opposition in GermanyRecently, Libra was jabbed at by German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, who says he’s not entirely comfortable with the authorization of Libra use in Europe. While...

The giant social media continues to stir controversy even when it’s trying desperately to avoid it. Just a week after Facebook renamed Libra to Diem (meaning “day” in Latin), the company could be facing a lawsuit from a London-based fintech app with the same name.CryptoPotato reported last week that Facebook changed the name of its future cryptocurrency in another attempt to escape from all the regulatory hurdles in its way. However, it seems that the Association behind the project has chosen...

Diem statt Libra: Facebook gibt Kryptowährung neuen Namen Lange war es ruhig rund um die Digitale Währung von Facebook. Doch seit nun tut sich wieder was: Die Digitalwährung Libra hat einen neuen Namen: Diem. Diem, so schreibt die von Libra Association in Diem Association umgetaufte Gesellschaft hinter den Krypto-Plänen bei Twitter, sei „ein neuer Name für einen neuen Tag, an...