The United States dollar, also referred to as the U.S. dollar or American dollar, is the official fiat currency of the United States of America and its overseas territories. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents. The U.S. dollar is the currency most used in international transactions and is one of the world's dominant reserve currencies. Several countries use it as their official currency, and in many others it is the de facto currency.
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AI is searching for unexploded Vietnam War bombs in Cambodia
Researchers are using AI to search satellite images for the millions of unexploded bombs dropped in Cambodia during the Vietnam ...
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Bezos dumped $3.4B in Amazon shares just before coronavirus tanked the stock market
In news that should hardly surprise anyone: those in charge of the US' biggest companies dumped billions of dollars in shares ...
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Amazon opens 100K new jobs to keep up with coronavirus demand
Amazon urged those out of work in the hospitality and travel sectors to feel welcome in applying for work in its fulfillment ...
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US looks to block Huawei from banks after Trump ban fails
Politicians from both sides are reportedly ready to submit a bill that would ban US banks from processing "signfiicant transactions' ...
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Hackers earned nearly $40M in bug bounties in 2019
Ethical hacking is swiftly turning into a lucrative spare time activity — for a small chunk of white-hat hackers at least. ...
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Leak shows EU police aim to create an international facial recognition database
EU police forces plan to build a network of national police facial recognition database that spans across every member state ...
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Algorithm blocks human rights investigator from entering US
Eyal Weizman, the director of investigative group Forensic Architecture was told he couldn't travel to the US because an algorithm ...
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The US takes Facebook to court over $9 billion in (allegedly) unpaid taxes
The IRS says Facebook intentionally undervalued intellectual property it transfered to an Irish subsidiary in order to avoid ...
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The EU is right to scrutinize small tech acquisitions — but not in detriment of innovation
The EU wants to scrutnize small acquisitions made in the continent by foreign tech giants. So, what does this mean for startups ...
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German fintech N26 to leave UK — because Brexit
Skeptcism surrounds N26's claim that Brexit-themed red tape has forced it to close up shop in the UK, despite only launching ...
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Trump's new budget pours billions into AI and quantum R&D
The US Office of Science and Technology today released more information about President Donald Trump's FY 2021 budget and, ...
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The US government lost $1.7 billion by selling Bitcoin too early
The US government has been seizing Bitcoin and selling it at auction for the past six years, generating millions, but it ...
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Facial recognition company CEO says he doesn't need permission to use your face
The CEO of facial recognition company Clearview AI, Hoan Ton-That, today gave his first network television interview on “CBS ...
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Why Amazon's Ring and facial recognition technology are a clear and present danger to society
“The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible ...
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It’s 2020 and we still have a data privacy problem
To fully protect consumer data as we enter 2020, security must be the number one priority for organizations everywhere.
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Alleged BTC-e boss will be extradited to France over cryptocurrency fraud
The man thought to be behind notorious cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, which is involved in a multi-billion Bitcoin fraud ...
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100 seconds to midnight: Why we're closer to Doomsday than ever
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a non-profit group dedicated to monitoring the potential for global catastrophe, last ...
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Report: Whichever country claims AI supremacy this decade will rule the Earth
The Brookings Institution last week published a report from global economy expert Indermit Gill prophesying that the AI ...
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Apple’s strong iPhone 11 sales last quarter bode well for the SE 2
Analyst firm CIRP has reported strong iPhone 11 sales in Q4 2019 — but what does this *actually* mean? Basically, the SE ...
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Huawei CFO in Canadian court on fraud charges, faces extradition to US
Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou is scheduled to appear in court, where she will fight extradition to the US over charges of skirting ...
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New Hampshire bill to allow taxes to be paid in Bitcoin falls short
No, New Hampshire residents won't be able to pay their taxes in Bitcoin or cryptocurrency after legislators veto a bill trying ...
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Bitcoin’s price rose 87% in 2019 — here’s what happened in Q4
Bitcoin's performance throughout 2019 was somewhat unremarkable. We've taken a closer look at its price movements during ...
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2019's juiciest crypto drama: The saga of OneCoin’s $4B ‘cryptocurrency’ scam
Hardly a week goes by without a new piece of information emerging about the OneCoin cryptocurrency scam, so here’s everything ...
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Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken sees 49% yearly increase in law enforcement information requests
It should come as no surprise that law enforcers are working to track down cryptocurrency criminals. Kraken says information ...
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Moonday Mornings: Bitmain might lay off half its staff ahead of Bitcoin halving
It's Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain headlines you can't afford to miss. ...
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France fines Google €150 million for abusing its ad dominance
Google faces yet another antitrust fine as regulating pressure builds up on both sides of the Atlantic.
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How Huawei powered through a tough 2019 and came out on top
Huawei has had a tough year. The company’s fight with the US government impacted its business across the globe, but this ...
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Alleged Bitcoin extortionist extradited to US for ties to 'Dark Overload' hacker crew
An alleged member of “The Dark Overload,” hacking group — which demanded Bitcoin ransom payments from victims — ...
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CNN: Bitcoin was the best investment of the decade
Numbers from the Bank of America show that investing $1 in Bitcoin at the start of this decade would earn you more than $90,000. ...
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Twitter scumbags scam 64-year-old lady out of $158K Bitcoin fortune
Two men have pleaded guilty to defrauding a 64-year-old woman out of more than $158,000 worth of Bitcoin.
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[Best of 2019] Why the criminal justice system should abandon algorithms
It's time that US courts stopped relying on biased algorithms to excuse the inherent bias embedded within the criminal justice ...
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Telegram exec should testify in UK over alleged illegal token sales, says US judge
A US court has asked a UK judge to depose John Hyman, Telegram’s chief investment officer, to testify in relation to the ...
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This $722M Bitcoin mining scam referred to its marks as 'dumb' investors and 'sheep'
Authorities in the US have arrested three men in connection with a Bitcoin mining scheme that allegedly defrauded investors ...
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FBI and US Marshals warn of heinous scammers demanding payments via Bitcoin ATMs
The United States Marshals and Federal Bureau of Investigation don't want you to forget about Bitcoin scammers pretending ...
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Why China's 'military AI budget' is irrelevant (spoiler: all AI is military AI)
A recently published study from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), a think-tank at Georgetown University, ...
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Bitcoin-hungry hackers 'target major US data center firm' with ransomware
A prominent data center provider in the US has reportedly been hit by the Sodinokibi ransomware, which several months ago ...
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Bitcoin ransomware forces Spanish security firm Prosegur offline
Prosegur has been hit by Ryuk ransomware, the notorious Trojan that encrypts files on a compromised device and typically ...
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Judge orders Telegram founder Pavel Durov to testify over its crypto ICO
Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov should testify in the US Securities Exchange Commission's (SEC) case against the ...
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Racehorse fund owned by accused OneCoin money launderer enters voluntary liquidation
Amer Abdulaziz, the founder of racehorse investment firm Phoenix Thoroughbreds, is denying allegations that he stole $100 ...
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Moonday Mornings: Racehorse mogul allegedly stole $110M from OneCoin, bought horses
It's the start of another, which means we have another bunch of cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines from over the weekend ...
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Watch the Tesla Cybertruck's unbreakable glass, uh, break
Earlier, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's Cybertruck. It all went well, apart from the moment they accidentally smashed the windows ...
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New York judge rules US government can intervene in $7M Bitcoin scam
The US government will be able to intervene in a civil case against Jon Barry Thompson, a man charged with running a fraudulent ...
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OneCoin lawyer found guilty in $4B cryptocurrency scam
The US lawyer who made $50 million after routing $400 million on behalf of the OneCoin cryptocurrency scam has been found ...
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Stablecoin businesses ARE money transmitters, says FinCEN chief
Stablecoins fall under FinCEN's remit to safeguard money transmission services, which means issuers must register as such ...
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Brooklyn man sentenced to 18 months in prison after running fraudulent ICOs
A man in the US has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after running two illegal cryptocurrency Initial Coin Offerings ...
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IRS eyes Bitcoin ATMs amid cryptocurrency tax concerns
As the number of Bitcoin ATMs across the world seemingly increases, so does the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) focus on ...
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Swedish gold-for-cryptocurrency scammer finally extradited to US
A Swedish citizen has been extradited from Thailand to the US and is facing charges based on a cryptocurrency investment ...
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Big Canadian bank rumored to offer cryptocurrency accounts, Bitcoin trading
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is reportedly developing a cryptocurrency platform to enable customers to trade with digital ...
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Lawyer accused of laundering $300M in OneCoin cryptocurrency scam stands trial
The lawyer who allegedly laundered some of the proceeds from the multi-billion dollar OneCoin cryptocurrency scam is currently ...
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Canadian cryptocurrency exchange goes dark taking over $12M in user funds with it
Financial regulators in Canada are taking action against a cryptocurrency exchange that has gone dark owing customers more ...
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Russian aluminum plant driven to cryptocurrency mining by US sanctions
The squeeze of US sanctions have proven too much for a Russian aluminum refinery, so its pivoting away from metals to mining ...
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Bitmain quietly filed for a US IPO with Deutsche Bank as its sponsor
After seeing its IPO dreams slashed earlier this year, Bitmain Technologies has reportedly re-submitted its US application ...
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Cryptocurrency saves a 110-year old power plant from demolition
A US power plant that's more than 100 years old, and is of significant historical value, is being saved from demolition by ...
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AT&T isn’t scared of latest cryptocurrency SIM-swap allegations, will fight in court
AT&T will dispute allegations that it was negligent after allegedly contributing to the loss of $1.7 million worth of digital ...
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China’s tech race with the US heats up as it readies to launch its digital currency
China has approved a law to regulate cryptography as it readies to launch its own digital currency. But, what does this mean ...
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Ajit Pai wants to abolish federalism so Verizon and AT&T can throttle your data
When AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and other telcom giants purchased a net neutrality repeal from FCC shill Ajit Pai, it must ...
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Nevada man charged for allegedly running $11M Bitcoin Ponzi scheme
A man in the US has been charged for allegedly operating an $11 million Bitcoin Ponzi scheme.
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US Fed Reserve: Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ dream faces core legal, regulatory challenges
The US Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said yesterday that Facebook must overcome a “core of legal and regulatory ...
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Hundreds charged after takedown of child exploitation site which made $730K in Bitcoin
US prosecutors say the online marketplace was operated by Jong Woo Son, who is currently serving an 18-month jail sentence ...
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Germany won’t ban Huawei from supplying 5G hardware — despite US pleas
Germany's upcoming 'security catalog' will not exclude Huawei from supplying equipment for the country's 5G mobile networks. ...
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Bank of Ireland staff no longer willing to snitch on OneCoin crypto scam
Despite facing calls to testify against the OneCoin scam, Bank of Ireland staff are now pulling back from helping court proceedings ...
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Alleged EtherDelta hacker in federal court over $1.4M cryptocurrency plot
If convicted on all charges, the alleged EtherDelta hacker faces up to 40 years in prison, and at least $2.8 million in fines. ...
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Dad and daughter to serve time over mail-order cryptocurrency drug ring
A father and daughter have received a combined prison sentence of eight years after selling drugs in exchange for cryptocurrency ...
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Drug dealer sells fentanyl for cryptocurrency, gets 30 years in prison
Yesterday an Iraqi man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for selling various narcotics in exchange for cryptocurrency ...
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Ohio businesses can no longer use Bitcoin to pay taxes – but will they care?
Ohio has suspended its BitPay-based cryptocurrency payment system, OhioCrypto.com, preventing businesses from paying taxes ...
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NiceHash co-founder reportedly arrested over alleged stolen millions (again)
The co-founder of NiceHash, the well-known cryptocurrency hash power broker, has reportedly been arrested in Germany.
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Bitcoin escrow firm owner charged over $7M cryptocurrency fraud
The director of Bitcoin escrow service Volantis Market is facing several years in prison if found guilty of cryptocurrency-related ...
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Block.one illegally sold securities to build the EOS cloud computing service, SEC finds
Securities law has finally caught up with Block.one, with the SEC finally recognizing the year-long ICO for EOS tokens to ...
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US detains Bitcoin fraudster to prevent him from escaping to Canada
A Canadian man alleged to have conned an Oregonian woman out of $230,000 worth of Bitcoin is being held in prison so that ...
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Dollar-pegged stablecoin Tether is now the world's 4th biggest cryptocurrency
Controversial USD-backed stablecoin Tether is now the world's fourth biggest cryptocurrency, only surpassed by Bitcoin, Ethereum, ...
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Ripple Labs wants the US to forget it's being sued for selling Ripple (XRP) illegally
Ripple Labs has filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit that claims it's been illegally selling its Ripple (XRP) ...
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Coinbase thief goofs by emailing apology to police, gets arrested while in jail for something else
Now he's stuck in jail because he can't afford the $150,000 bail. A tip for cryptocurrency thieves - don't use PayPal to ...
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Bootleg vape cartridges linked to outbreak of potentially fatal lung illness
Hundreds of cases of a mysterious lung illness have been reported in the US in just a matter of weeks. The Centers for Disease ...
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US government knows you’re buying opioids with Bitcoin — and it doesn’t like it
The US government has released a series of advisory notes, one of which specifically looks at the role played by cryptocurrencies ...
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Yet another reason to dislike Tether: 300 addresses hold 80% of the ‘stablecoin’
Infamous 'stablecoin' Tether doesn't exactly have the cleanest of rap sheets, and if you needed another reason not to trust ...
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You can now get 100,000s of books for FREE — thanks, confusing copyright law
Copyright law, you can't live with it, you can't live without it — but at the very least you can get a whole load of books ...
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US couple must forfeit their cryptocurrency riches after being caught running dark web drug ring
A California-based couple will have to forfeit their cryptocurrency riches after pleading guilty to running a dark web ...
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Facebook, stop trying to make Libra happen
Data protection bosses from all over the world are concerned about Facebook Libra's potential privacy issues.
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Bitcoin whale moves $468 million crypto-fortune for less than $400
Bitcoin whales are shifting fortunes for tiny fees relative to the traditional finance sector, and this one moved almost ...
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Bagel-loving 84-year-old lady foils sextortionists' $1,400 Bitcoin con
An 84-year-old woman in the US has been targeted by Bitcoin sextortionists after she signed up to Panera, a well-known restaurant ...
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Venezuela is buying Bitcoin with airport taxes to smuggle in US dollars, report
Venezuela appears to be leveraging cryptocurrencies as part of a larger effort to bypass US sanctions.
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Survey finds adults couldn't care less about Facebook's Libra 'cryptocurrency'
Facebook Libra's potential to help cryptocurrency go mainstream has been touted in recent weeks, but recent survey results ...
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UK MP on Libra: Facebook’s almost trying to turn itself into its own country
Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' Libra is ruffling feathers among UK politicians amid concerns that the technology giant's entry ...
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Donald Trump's critique of Bitcoin is antiquated and irrelevant
US President Donald Trump, known for his complicated relationship with technology and his incessant need to share his ill-advised ...
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US risks its leading role in tech by leaving regulations to the EU
The borderless nature of tech regulation puts immense power in the hands of the EU, which has emerged as the de-facto global ...
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Virginia outlaws deepfakes in its efforts to curb revenge porn
To combat "deepfakes," Virginia just became one of the first states in the US to impose criminal penalties on the distribution ...
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Bitcoin dark web drug ring busted after dealer doxes himself buying stamps
US law enforcers have busted a Bitcoin-fuelled dark web drug ring after one of the alleged dealers messed up and bought ...
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Hackers breach cryptocurrency exchange Bitrue for $4.2M in Ripple and Cardano
Another day, and another cryptocurrency exchange hack. This time it's Bitrue to the sum of $4.5 million worth of cryptocurrency. ...
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JP Morgan claims big institutions are hot for its (non-)cryptocurrency
Despite dividing opinions earlier this year with JPM Coin, American bank JP Morgan is rolling out its blockchain-based tech ...
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ING Bank: Bullish cryptocurrency markets are negatively impacting the US dollar
The Bitcoin bulls have run wild, and analysts from ING say such strong cryptocurrency markets could turn the USD relatively ...
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Indian police arrest 78 in Bitcoin call center scam
A call center scam that targeted US citizens and requested payment in Bitcoin has been busted by police in India resulting ...
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New cryptocurrency mining malware is spreading across Thailand and the US
Security researchers have uncovered a new malware family, called BlackSquid, that's attacking hardware to get it to secretly ...
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Why scientists believe Godzilla's fictional growth is cause for real concern
A pair of scientists from prestigious Dartmouth University recently published research postulating why Godzilla has more ...
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Moonday Mornings: Bitcoin flash-crashed to $75, SIM-swapping on the rise, and more
It’s time for another edition of Moonday Mornings! Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain ...
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Why the future of US data regulation must come from Congress
As of May 2019, over 20 US states have introduced bills seeking to regulate data privacy, data security, or some combination ...
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New analysis of 'moonquakes' indicates the moon isn't dead
We tend to think of the moon as the archetypal “dead” world. Not only is there no life, almost all its volcanic activity ...
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Dark web user gets 42 months in prison for buying child abuse imagery with Bitcoin
A man in the US has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for purchasing, downloading, and concealing child abuse ...
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Nuking asteroids could save the Earth — but we need to make it legal first
The schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of that year. The blockbuster saw a master ...
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SIM-swappers face hundreds of years in prison for $2.4M cryptocurrency theft
An Irish man is facing upwards of 100 years in a US prison after allegedly stealing over $2 million worth of cryptocurrency ...
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Moonday Mornings: Bitcoin extortionists are wiping GitHub repositories – unless you pay up
Bitcoin extortionists hold GitHub respositories to ransom, Craig Wright ordered to prove Bitcoin ownership and more in this ...
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NY Attorney General goes after Tether and Bitfinex for $850M cover-up
The New York State Attorney General (NYSAG) is reportedly building a case to sue cryptocurrency exchange, Bitfinex, and stablecoin, ...
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Men plead guilty in first NY conviction for money laundering involving Bitcoin
Two US men have pleaded guilty to running a steroid and controlled substance business that laundered millions of dollars ...
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Prolific sim-swapper gets 10 years for stealing $7.5M worth of Bitcoin
A 21-year-old man in the US, who is credited with being one of the first people in the country to be convicted of stealing ...
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US presidential candidate Andrew Yang wants to fix ‘confusing’ cryptocurrency regulations (and give $1,000 to everyone)
Andrew Yang released a statement on cryptocurrency and digital assets yesterday, making a bid to regulate virtual assets ...
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Coinbase Pro wiped its Bitcoin to USD market clean, suspended trade for hours
Coinbase Pro's Bitcoin to US dollar markets were interrupted for hours today, after a still undisclosed problem affected ...
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22-year-old gets 2 years in jail for illegally selling hundreds of thousands in Bitcoin
A 22-year-old man in the US has been sentenced to two years in prison for selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin ...
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China takes top spot with 25% of world's blockchain projects
China appears to be edging ahead as a world leader in blockchain technology, according to new figures from Beijing-based ...
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Alleged Russian boss of Bitcoin 'money-laundering scheme' wants to go home
Alexander Vinnik, the alleged operator of troubled cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e has lodged an appeal for extradition to ...
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Cryptocurrency scammer pleads guilty in $4M fraud case
AriseBank CEO Jared Rice, who faced 120 years in prison for defrauding investors of $4 million in a cryptocurrency scam, ...
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Delve deep into Bitcoin’s craziest conspiracy theories
Bitcoin has always been shrouded in mystery, and to this day, not much is known about its origins or the identity of its ...
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eToro officially launches its cryptocurrency exchange in the US
After months of anticipation, social trading platform eToro has finally launched its cryptocurrency-to-cryptocurrency exchange ...
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Alibaba finally got its shitcoin namesake to drop its name
In a joint statement released on Monday, Alibabacoin and Alibaba announced they have reached an agreement which will see ...
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Cryptocurrency exchange WEX/BTC-e tied to Bitcoin ransomware hackers, report
PricewaterhouseCoopers has made a connection between the SamSam ransomware hackers and infamous cryptocurrency exchange WEX ...
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3 countries host over 50% of the world’s Bitcoin nodes
Ever wondered which country is running the most nodes on the Bitcoin network? Well here's your answer.
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Circle completes latest acquisition amid claims it's raising an extra $250M
Goldman Sachs-backed payments startup Circle has acquired equity crowdfunding firm SeedInvest amid rumours it's looking ...
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Public pensions back new $40M blockchain fund raised by Morgan Creek
The pension funds of the Fairfax County police and its employees are now invested in blockchain, thanks to a new $40M digital ...
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Pablo Escobar's estate launches cryptocurrency to impeach Trump
The brother of late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar is launching a new cryptocurrency in a bid to boot US President Donald Trump ...
