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Can Crypto Destabilize Nations? Hillary Clinton believes so

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Time Stamp: November 19, 2021 2:10 AM - Modified On: November 19, 2021 - Published By:
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The ex-Democratic presidential candidate against Trump, Hillary Clinton, recently picked a rather conservative stance about crypto, levying the industry as a threat to global economic stability. She spoke remotely at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum on Friday in Singapore, highlighting exclusive challenges that global governments are currently dealing with, including disinformation and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, Clinton put special emphasis on cryptocurrencies under these categories, claiming that they hold the potential to destabilize entire nations. According to Clinton, the decentralized market may take over entire economies, by starting small but gradually

How Binance Helps Legal Authorities Take Down Cybercriminals Laundering Illicit Funds

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Time Stamp: September 30, 2021 9:00 AM - Modified On: September 30, 2021 - Published By:
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sponsored According to the latest UN statistics, global money laundering transactions reach up to $2 trillion a year. A small fraction of that huge amount passes through the digital assets ecosystem, and responsible actors in it are working to bring that down even more. As the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance has especially taken it upon itself to protect the safety and security of the virtual finance world. Here is how it helps legal authorities to take down cybercriminals laundering money. Busting the $500 Million FANCYCAT Ring In June 2021,

Blockchain Analytics Platform Antinalysis Suspends Service

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Time Stamp: August 16, 2021 12:50 PM - Modified On: August 16, 2021 - Published By:
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A service created to aid dark web users in uncovering compromised BTC addresses has been shut down after gaining the attention of state regulators. Sponsored Sponsored Antinalysis, a blockchain analytics tool that allows Bitcoin addresses to e checked to criminal activity has suspended operations. According to Elliptic, the tool allows cryptocurrency launderers to see if funds will be tagged as illegal funds by regulated exchanges before making a transaction.  Elliptic provides regulated cryptocurrency exchanges tools to check customers’ deposit links to any illegal or illicit activity they may be connected to.

Monero’s Hashrate Experienced Its Largest Single Day Gains Ever

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Time Stamp: August 7, 2020 3:00 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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August 6, Monero (XMR) has experienced its biggest increase in hashrate since the network’s creation in 2014.Monero hashrate. Source: Coin Metrics.The Monero hashrate increased from 1.67 GH/s on August 5 to 2.2 GH/s on August 6. That 0.52 GH/s single day gain is the highest in the project’s history. Prior to this, most significant daily percentage gains came in the project’s early days when the base was much smaller.Banks should embrace privacy coins to protect their clientsOn August 3, Coin Center submitted comments to the Office of the Comptroller of

Silk Road Founder Shares Health Update from Jail 

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Time Stamp: April 8, 2020 6:58 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the once-popular Dark Web marketplace Silk Road, has shared his health update with members of the tech and crypto communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.Ulbricht was identified as the marketplace’s creator in 2013, and he’s been in jail for about seven years. However, with the coronavirus pandemic causing special attention to prisons, he’s come out to put everyone at ease on his health. Prisons: Petri Dishes for VirusesIn a tweet posted earlier this week, he explained that he’s completely fine and doesn’t know anyone in

Notable Dark Web Marketplace Bans All COVID-19 Vaccine Sale 

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Time Stamp: April 6, 2020 3:36 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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In a rare move that has perhaps never been seen before, a marketplace on the dark web has banned the sale of a self-proclaimed vaccine for the coronavirus pandemic. According to a tweet from noted tech author Eileen Ormsby, Monopoly Market, a popular platform on the dark web, has banned the sale of purported vaccines for the coronavirus for Bitcoin.Darknet market Monopoly has taken a more responsible approach to touting #COVID19 "cures" on their #darkweb site pic.twitter.com/uWFLx75deQ— Eileen Ormsby (@EileenOrmsby) April 1, 2020Honor Among Criminals As the tweet showed, the market’s administrator pointed

Darknet Market to Permanently Ban Vendors Preying on COVID-19 Fears

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Time Stamp: April 5, 2020 6:56 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Dark web marketplace, Monopoly Market, has taken a stand against scammers claiming to sell cures and treatments for COVID-19 on its platform.On other darknet platforms, listings are rife with coronavirus keywords — with vendors selling everything from narcotic cocktails marketed as ‘coronavirus vaccines,’ to coronavirus-infected blood and saliva.Monopoly Market to ban vendors using coronavirus as ‘marketing tool’On April 2, dark web journalist, Eileen Ormsby, tweeted a screenshot posted by Monopoly Market’s operator that threatened permanent bans against vendors “caught flogging goods as a ‘cure’ to Coronavirus.”“We have class here,” the

Sophisticated Mining Botnet Identified After 2 Years

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Time Stamp: April 5, 2020 8:03 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Cybersecurity firm, Guardicore Labs, revealed the identification of a malicious crypto-mining botnet that has been operating for nearly two years on April 1.The threat actor, dubbed ‘Vollgar’ based on its mining of the little-known altcoin, Vollar (VSD), targets Windows machines running MS-SQL servers — of which Guardicore estimates there are just 500,000 in existence worldwide.However, despite their scarcity, MS-SQL servers offer sizable processing power in addition to typically storing valuable information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.Sophisticated crypto-mining malware network identifiedOnce a server is infected, Vollgar “diligently and

New Report links Satoshi Nakamoto with the Monero Whitepaper

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Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 4:24 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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The identity of Bitcoin creator (or creators) Satoshi Nakamoto is still one of the most highly debated questions in the crypto space today. However, a new research report is suggesting that the creator also developed another prominent digital asset. According to new research by Monero Outreach, the privacy-focused digital asset may also be the creator of Bitcoin. Using Monero to “Fix” BitcoinMonero was developed in 2014 as a means of addressing some of the privacy issues that Bitcoin had at the time. Up till today, the asset remains one of the most private digital