Employees

Based in Las Vegas, Hosho laid off more than 30 employees, reducing staff numbers by 80%. It is reported by CoinDesk. The company claims that in the 17 months of its existence Hosho conducted an audit of so many smart contracts that any other firm from the blockchain industry could hardly make. “In conducting an audit of many ICOs, we thought that we were going to go […]

Coinsquare cryptocurrency exchange has reduced the number of employees by 27%. It is reported BetaKit. Fired 40 employees from various departments and several top managers, including Operations Director Robert Muller and Financial Manager Ken Tsang. Prior to that, about 150 people worked in Coinsquare. “The continuously developing cryptocurrency space was very unstable and unpredictable,” notes Coinsquare talent manager Martin Hauk. – […]

LocalBitcoins, a popular platform for the physical purchase and sale of bitcoins, confirmed that it had undergone a phishing attack, as a result of which at least six of its users lost their funds. In total, 7.95205862 BTC was stolen from them (about $ 28,000). The LocalBitcoins message on Reddit says that at about 10:00 UTC on Saturday, January 26, employees of the exchange discovered a vulnerability in […]

Employees of the Department of Cyber Police detained a 30-year-old resident of Zaporozhye, suspected of fraud and theft of cryptocurrency. This is reported on the site office. According to law enforcement officers, a 30-year-old male resident created the Stealer virus and distributed it among network users to gain access to these wallets on various crypto-countertops. The virus got into the file system of users through spam mailing. He also disguised himself on […]