News Articles on Cryptocurrency

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News Articles on Cryptocurrency

Title: The SEC is reportedly investigating a number of ICOs
Date2018-03-01T10:57:23Z

The SEC is getting up close and personal with companies that have raised ICOs, according to a new report. Citing sources, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the commission has “issued dozens of subpoenas and information requests” to tech companies that…



Title: Monumentally stupid tweet blows up in blockchain company's face
Date2018-03-01T00:30:21Z

The blockchain can't solve for stupid. That painful truth hit the internet-of-things blockchain project Waltonchain hard today, with one Twitter huge fuck up leading to the erasure of tens of millions of dollars in the market cap of its associated Walton Coin…



Title: Bill Gates says cryptocurrencies have “caused deaths in a fairly direct way”
Date2018-03-01T00:15:56Z

Gates says cryptocurrencies' main feature is anonymity.



Title: Bill Gates warns cryptocurrency has a deadly side - CNET
Date2018-03-01T00:32:04Z

Microsoft co-founder says criminals, terrorists and tax evaders benefit from cryptocurrencies' anonymous transactions.



Title: Cryptocurrency Waltonchain rewards employee in user giveaway and outs itself on Twitter
Date2018-03-01T11:06:45Z

In an embarrassingly botched attempt to play it coy, budding blockchain startup Waltonchain got busted rewarding its own employees with cryptocurrency from a public giveaway that was supposed to go to its users. But here is the cringiest part: the company acc…



Title: Memcached Servers Abused For DDoS Attacks
Date2018-03-01T12:00:00Z

Cloudflare announced recently that they are seeing an increase in amplification attacks using memcached servers, and that this exploit has the potential to be a big problem because memcached is capable of amplifying an attack significantly. This takes DDoS at…



Title: Native Support for Iris Scanners is finally coming to Android
Date2018-03-01T00:04:02Z

Biometric authentication may not be as secure as pins or passwords, but its convenience is a big selling point for many consumers. The extremely quick fingerprint scanner on the OnePlus flagships has been praised almost universally, but lately companies have …



Title: Bitcoin Is Falling Out of Favor on the Dark Web
Date2018-03-01T13:00:00Z

Steep transaction fees and wild price fluctuations have made the cryptocurrency harder to use in the illicit markets that originally made it famous.



Title: Amazon Prime To Show Pay-Per-View UFC Fights
Date2018-03-01T10:38:51Z

Amazon has announced that it will soon show all pay-per-view UFC fights on its Amazon Prime service. The new streaming option will begin on March 3 with UFC 222, and fans will have the option to pre-order the fights or to purchase the viewing ability up to fo…



Title: Bill Gates on Bitcoin, Hyperloop & more
Date2018-03-01T10:15:46Z

Microsoft co-founder and the world's second-richest man Bill Gates answered a volley of questions on topics ranging from cryptocurrency to automation, financial crisis to his favourite books for the year 2018 and many other subjects during a Reddit AMA held t…



Title: Rejected for being blind, he is now a job creator
Date2018-03-01T04:44:55Z

But it's not been easy for Jaipur-based Prateek Agarwal, perhaps the first blind IT entrepreneur in the country, to engage with a visual world with sound.



Title: Is Bitcoin a Waste of Electricity, or Something Worse?
Date2018-03-01T00:17:20Z

Tom Pillsworth, right, whose company operates and maintains Bitcoin machines located at a former paper warehouse in Plattsburgh, N.Y.



Title: Pedal to the Metal: BMW Just Partnered With This Little-Known Cryptocurrency
Date2018-03-01T14:21:00Z

This blockchain-as-a-service provider could shift BMW's operating efficiency into high gear.



Title: Rapper Lupe Fiasco explains why he's obsessed with Reddit and using it as the exclusive forum for news about his upcoming album
Date2018-03-01T13:52:55Z

Lupe Fiasco spoke with Business Insider after attending a technology summit at the headquarters of Autodesk with the Society of Spoken Art (SOSA), his educational guild for rappers. Fiasco touched on his work with SOSA, using blockchain technology to "revolut…



Title: Crypto Harlem Is Teaching Digital Security to the Over-Surveilled Black Community
Date2018-03-01T14:00:00Z

Inside a 'cryptoparty.'



Title: How to Defend Servers Against Cryptojacking
Date2018-03-01T03:00:00Z

eSecurityPlanet: Learn how to take proactive steps to help mitigate the risk of becoming an unwitting accomplice to cryptojacking attack.



Title: The Branding Of Cryptocurrency
Date2018-03-01T12:30:00Z

It’s not really about what Bitcoin is or how much it’s worth – it’s about how it’s branded.



Title: Former Goldman Sachs Banker Brings Cryptocurrency To The Financial Mainstream
Date2018-03-01T02:02:00Z

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Title: Bill Gates warns about cryptocurrencies, saying they cause deaths in a ‘fairly direct way’
Date2018-03-01T10:55:04Z

The founder of Microsoft believes that the anonymity virtual coinage provides isn’t a good thing.



Title: Welcome to My Opium Den/Coworking Space for Millennials
Date2018-03-01T13:00:00Z

After getting laid off at my job in media, I’m thrilled to announce that I’m taking this time and my trust fund to pursue my real dream — creating a tastefully decorated coworking space and opium den for millennials. It will combine my passions for interior d…