News Articles on Cryptocurrency

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News Articles on Cryptocurrency

Title: Japanese exchange says hackers stole over $400M in cryptocurrency
Date2018-01-27T02:42:44Z

A Japanese cryptocurrency exchange has claimed it lost more than $400 million in tokens following an alleged hack on its service. Coincheck said Friday that some 500 million tokens of NEM, worth around $400 million at the time of writing, according to comment…



Title: Earnings Outlook: AMD earnings: Mining for crypto gold, more Spectre details
Date2018-01-27T01:11:44Z

When Advanced Micro Devices Inc. reports earnings, investors will look at the results for clues about how cryptocurrency mining is figuring into sales and the forecast for indications about the effects of chip-design flaws.



Title: CryptoWatch: The cryptocurrency market just suffered a theft worse than Mt. Gox
Date2018-01-27T00:25:10Z

Bitcoin prices and the value of other cryptocurrencies dropped on Friday as Tokyo-based Coincheck Inc., revealed that some $530 million in digital assets had been stolen, eliciting shades of the Mt. Gox hack back in 2014.



Title: Crypto-jackers slip Coinhive mining code into YouTube site ads
Date2018-01-27T01:14:14Z

Trend Micro suggests disabling JavaScript in browsers The hijacking of CPU cycles through crypto-mining JavaScript code has surged over the past few days, according to security biz Trend Micro.…



Title: Sources: VCs with long Bitcoin experience like a16z, USV, are passing on Telegram's ICO; VCs newer to cryptocurrencies like KPCB, Sequoia, Benchmark, investing (Theodore Schleifer/Recode)
Date2018-01-27T01:35:03Z

Theodore Schleifer / Recode : Sources: VCs with long Bitcoin experience like a16z, USV, are passing on Telegram's ICO; VCs newer to cryptocurrencies like KPCB, Sequoia, Benchmark, investing — The investors are not who you'd expect. — Some of the most prominen…



Title: Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530 million
Date2018-01-27T04:49:28Z

The exchange has already reported the incident to the police and to Japan's Financial Services Agency, NHK said.



Title: An early Coinbase and Twitter investor just gave Uphold $57.5 million to add Ripple and insure against hacks
Date2018-01-27T01:17:22Z

Greg Kidd, an early investor in Coinbase and Twitter, just invested $57.7 million toward Uphold, a currency exchange that also trades in cryptocurrencies. Uphold will use part of the money as insurance for its users to guarantee that their deposits to the exc…