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• Moonday Mornings: Elon Musk and John McAfee cryptocurrency scams are back

  It's a new week, which means only one thing: it's time for Hard Fork's roundup of cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• France to create a joint G7 cryptocurrency task force amid Facebook’s Libra woes

  France is putting together a Group of Seven Nations (G7) task force to explore how central banks can make sure cryptocurrencies ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Bitcoin wallets aren't addresses — a secret guide for embarrassed crypto noobs

  If you own any cryptocurrency, the chances are you’ve had to use an address, or a wallet, or both. It’s confusing, right? ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Mozilla fixes second Firefox zero-day bug used in Coinbase hack attempts

  This is the second 'zero-day' exploit patched by Mozilla in a week week, as reports indicate spearphishers have been targeting ...

  • David Canellis

• 5 easy steps to achieve Inbox Zero

  What’s the secret to maintaining a healthy inbox and keeping your sanity? Is it even possible? We think so – here are ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• We ranked Google's new search icons by how evil they look

  Google recently unveiled new icons for its search function, so we did what the public demanded: ranked them by how evil they ...

  • Callum Booth

• Bitcoin healthy AF following Zuckbuck reveal, hash rate hits all-time high

  Bitcoin is running on more computational power than ever before, proof that it simply doesn't care who or what launches which ...

  • David Canellis

• Unique multi-platform Monero mining malware targets audio engineer pirates

  We’ve seen cryptocurrency hungry hackers hiding mining malware in Adobe Flash updates, but now hackers are hiding it in ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• PwC has a new cryptocurrency auditing tool… and actually, it sounds alright

  One of the Big Four financial auditing firms, PwC, wants to lend a hand to cryptocurrency businesses and help them track ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Messaging app Line is reportedly launching a cryptocurrency exchange in Japan soon

  Japanese messaging company Line Corp is reportedly gearing up to launch a cryptocurrency exchange, days after fellow tech ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Swede facing extradition to US over $11M Bitcoin investment scam

  A Swedish citizen has been charged with securities, wire fraud, and money laundering in a scheme that saw him encourage victims ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Report: QuadrigaCX CEO used fake trades to misappropriate users’ cryptocurrency

  The cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX appears to have been playing with fire long before it collapsed – and took $134 ...

  • Matthew Beedham