January 24, 2021
Bitcoin Daily: Crypto-Related Crime Fell To $10 Billion In 2020;...
Cryptocurrency-related crime fell in 2020, according to a blog post from Chainalysis. In 2019, criminal activity constituted 2.1 percent of all crypto transaction volume, which came out to $21.4 billion...
January 19, 2021
Bitcoin Daily: Crypto Wallet Trezor Warns Of Fake App On...
Trezor, a cryptocurrency wallet hardware provider, warned users Monday (Jan. 18) of a “malicious” fake Trezor app on the Google Play store, Cointelegraph reported. According to Cointelegraph, the fraudulent app...
January 12, 2021
Bitcoin Daily: 20 Pct Of Bitcoin Trapped In ‘Lost’ Wallets;...
Goldman Sachs Global Head of Commodities Research Jeff Currie told CNBC the bitcoin market is maturing. “I think in any nascent market you get that volatility and those risks that...
December 21, 2020
Bitcoin Daily: Former BitGrail Head Faces Fraud Charges; Exmo Reports...
Italian police charged the former head of cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail, identified by the initials of “F.F.,” with money laundering, fraudulent banking and computer fraud, Reuters reported. “It is the biggest...
December 18, 2020
US Treasury Proposes Sweeping New Disclosure Rules On Bitcoin, Other...
The U.S. Treasury Department proposed sweeping new rules late Friday (Dec. 18) that the government says would make convertible digital currencies like bitcoin less attractive to criminals engaging in crimes...
December 10, 2020
Deep Dive: Cracking Down On Cryptocurrency Exchange Cybercrime With AML/KYC...
Cryptocurrency is one of the fastest-moving industries in the digital world, with a market that was valued at $1.03 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach $1.4 billion by...
December 02, 2020
Bitcoin Daily: Australian Crypto Exchange Exposes 270,000 Members’ Names, Emails;...
Australia’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, BTC Markets, revealed in a series of tweets that it had mistakenly revealed its client names and email addresses in an announcement from the company. While...
November 30, 2020
Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Crests $19,800; Russian Bank To Launch Sbercoin...
Bitcoin saw a new all-time record high on Monday (Nov. 30), rising above $19,800 in the morning and resting at 19,633.264 at 7:32 p.m. Eastern Time. The high price point...
November 22, 2020
Bitcoin Daily: Germany’s Finance Minister Says He’s Against Private Cryptos;...
Malicious actors have now managed to momentarily take control over several cryptocurrency platforms by scamming employees at GoDaddy, the domain hosting service for these sites, in multiple attacks. On Nov....