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Over the past few weeks, an increased activity of an unknown miner has been recorded in the Bitcoin Cash network, which signs his coinbase transaction with the name Satoshi Nakamoto. Experts suggest that behind the miner’s personality there may be supporters of Bitcoin SV cryptocurrency, trying to make money in this way against the background of the BSV price reduction. The most profitable for them will be the withdrawal of funds from BCH to BSV, experts say, […]

Arthur Hayes, co-founder and CEO of the BitMEX cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, does not exclude that in the foreseeable future, short-term bitcoin bonds may appear on the platform. The idea itself, however, is not fully worked out and it has yet to bring to mind. This assumption Hayes made in a conversation with a cryptanalyst and trader Luke Martin in the framework published on Friday, 12 […]

At the end of 2018, South Korea’s largest Bitcoin exchange Bithumb suffered a net loss of 205.5 billion won (about $ 180 million). It is reported by KoreaTimes with reference to the data of the exchange's operator BTCKorea. For comparison, in 2017, Bithumb announced a profit of 427.2 billion won ($ 375 million) It is noteworthy that sales at the site at the same time […]

Experts of the antivirus company ESET have detected a massive spam attack targeting visitors to porn sites from Russia, the USA, Germany, France, Spain and the Czech Republic. Fraudsters extort bitcoins from users under the threat of publishing a video that they allegedly managed to record via the victim’s webcam while watching porn. Extortionists threaten to send a compromising record to the list of contacts if they do not receive a ransom in the amount of 0.45 […]

In the traditional Sunday digest, Bitcoin attempts to break the downward trend, change of leadership at Bitmain, the final formation of the third venture fund from Pantera Capital and other key events of the week. Attempt not torture This week, Bitcoin again gave hope for a rapid recovery, breaking the mark of $ 4000 on the Bitstamp exchange. According to the CoinMarketCap analytical resource, on Saturday […]