John McAfee, one of the best-known cryptocurrency enthusiast has called Bitcoin an “old, tired, worthless coin” in his tweet. McAfee, who is currently on the run from the US authorities in case of tax fraud, called absurd his earlier prediction that Bitcoin would reach $1 million by the end of […]

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighter, Craig Jones who lives in Australia has told that he missed out on the Bitcoin all-time high in 2017 after he lost access to his coins by forgetting the password, according to CoinJar blog post. The former Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion shared that he and some of his […]

China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has included blockchain-related jobs to the official list of occupations, which is numbering 1838 officially recognized occupations. Now the list includes “Blockchain Engineer” and “Blockchain Application Operator”. The list by the ministry defines ‘Blockchain Engineer’ as someone that works on architecture design, […]

Twitter accounts of leading companies and famous people were hacked in a bitcoin scam on Wednesday. The accounts of Barack Obama, Kanye West, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, and many other famous persons posted a tweet asking for bitcoins from followers with the promise of double return. Once the hack was […]

The US Secret Service has paid $183,750 for a four-year contract with Coinbase to use its blockchain analytics service.The exchange users believe their privacy is in jeopardy due to the government agency having the ability to view their on-chain activities. According to USASpending.gov, a government source for data, the contract […]

Bank of England belongs to a group of major central banks that assess potentially developing their own digital currencies, acknowledging their role is being challenged by new technologies and private sector initiatives such as Facebook Inc.’s Libra. Back in February, Sarah John, Chief Cashier and Director of Notes at the […]

PayPal has revealed that it is developing crypto-assets capabilities. In response to the European Commission in March, the payment giant claimed that it had taken “tangible steps to further develop its capabilities in this area” PayPal’s response to the commission is part of a public consultation that opened in December […]

One of the world’s leading crypto exchanges Binance has acquired Swipe Wallet, a multi-asset digital wallet and Visa debit card platform that allows users to buy, sell, convert and spend crypto. Users are able to convert and spend crypto directly, and have merchants still seamlessly accept fiat.  The amount of […]

The second of the three co-founders of cryptocurrency firm Centra Tech, Sohrab Sharma, is reportedly planning to plead guilty in $25 million ICO scam. Sharma may avoid a November trial date as his lawyers told a federal judge he would be interested in changing his plea. Earlier, another one Centra […]

Crypto scammers have stolen around $24 worth of bitcoin in the first half-year of 2020, representing 63% from amount stolen over the past four years, according to the Whale Alert and Scam Alert report. The most “successful” scam scgemes gained over $130,000 in a single day with nothing more than a one-page […]