cryptocurrency

Hackers have infected thousands of Android phones and smart TVs, turning the devices into Monero miners. Chinese cyber security firm 360Netlab announced that the attack affected more than 7,000 devices in China by taking advantage of an open port 5555. The report says that scan traffic for port...

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U.S markets regulators from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will be providing testimony to the Senate Banking Committee over the risks virtual currencies pose to investors and the financial system. There is currently no single U.S...

We talked about T-Mobile pushing security to keep from having your phone number stolen through port-out scamming last week. Now it has come to UberGizmo's attention that T-Mobile is being sued by a man that is suggesting that it is T-Mobile's fault that he lost "tens of thousands of dollars"...

There are lot of stories making the rounds this morning about the huge drop in Bitcoin cryptocurrency prices dropping like rocks lately, however it is worth noting that this is on the heels of huge gains seen at the end of last year. Of course if you bought at it's high of around $20K, it...

Threadripper Pays for Itself Using Cryptocurrency Mining If you could have your AMD Ryzen Threadripper pay for itself over time, would you? No matter your feelings towards cryptocurrency mining, you can get your Threadripper mining today, and paying for itself. The process could not be much...

This is the best thing I have heard all year when it comes to mining! Samsung is now in the mix with TSMC and GloFlo when it comes to making mining ASICs. I hope we see more specialized chip production for mining-specific applications to ease some of the burden on the dwindling GPU supply that...

In a report yesterday, blockchain start up "The Prodeum Project," whose goal was to "revolutionize the fruit and vegetable industry" with Ethereumhas apparently absconded with millions of investor dollars. Upon exiting with the investors money, the website went offline, ad was replaced with one...

Following up from Fridays theft of $500 Million in NEM coins, Bloomberg has posted an article about the hack. According to the article, Coincheck has not disclosed how their system was breached, aside from it wasn't an inside job. No one knows who owns the accounts that the coins were...

I built a miner cabinet from a cabinet I bought on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004HLU7CE/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It has a 18n exhaust with fan which will be attached to the ceiling. The intake is through a 14x25 air filter housing. The wiring is 6ga 240v...

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CoinCheck has now suspended cryptocurrency trading after $530M worth of NEM tokens from hot wallets has been stolen. This is supposedly the largest cryptocurrency theft ever made public. Going to have to buy a lot of Maingear mining rigs to make up for that.

Maingear sent out a press release yesterday heralding its new mining boxes that contain up to six GPUs. Our news post did get some reaction. Raul Sood, the CEO of yet another cryptocurrency (Unikrn), and the crypto being hawked along with Maingear's crypto box, took issue with our news item...

USA today tells us that cryptocurrency investments and purchases are possibly open to be taxed twice depending on how long you have owned the crypto and what exactly you did with it. You might be open to both taxes for capital gains and taxes on income. Bet your bottom Bitcoin that the IRS is...

Pump and dump comes to cryptocurrency! But given the fully unregulated environment, I am sure it comes as no surprise. However, the CFTC is surely taking note of illegalities going on in the marketplace. If you invested in My Big Coin (MBC), I would suggest you will not be getting much ROI on...

While the DIY computer hardware enthusiast is the guy that is getting screwed over the worst with this GPU shortage that fully lays at the feet of cryptocurrency mining, there has been somewhat of a "loophole" if you were desperate. That loophole has been to buy a pre-built box from a boutique...

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An article from CNBC is calling out AMD and Nvidia for not doing something to combat the product shortages and price gouging occurring in the GPU market. Speaking about the shortages, Shrout Research's Ryan Shrout wrote in an email "Because of that, many enthusiasts and DIY builders are putting...

In reports today, India and South Korea are announcing they want their cut from cryptocurrency investors. BlockTribune and others are reporting that India has sent tax notices to cryptocurrency investors following a nationwide survey. The notice asks crypto investors to provide details of their...

Opera started off the year with adding Cryptojacking protection to its desktop browser, and now follows suit with its mobile browser as well. Of course "cryptojacking" refers to a cryptocurrency mining program being run on your desktop or mobile hardware without your knowledge, which can...

The world's largest chip manufacturer, TSMC is producing chips exclusively for miners. James Wang, analyst for ARKInvest, formerly from NVIDIA tweeted today that Bitmain is now buying 20,000 16nm wafers a month from TSMC, which is more than NVIDIA. An article on Barron's yesterday, Christopher...

Cryptocurrency bitconnect took a nosedive with prices falling 97% today. The fall came after BitConnect said it’s closing its lending and exchange platform after receiving cease and desist letters from Texas and North Carolina. The coin had a nearly $3 billion market cap, and traded as high as...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the University of Tulsa think they have proven beyond a doubt that Bitcoin prices have been fraudulently manipulated back in 2013 in order to push the value of from $150 to more than $1000 in two months. What is truly astounding about this is the...

More and more it seems like cryptocurrency is the buzz word investors are looking for these days and this held true yesterday when Kodak announced their new cryptocurrency, KODAKCoin. Investors liked this news so much (WARNING auto play video) that Kodak stock doubled. By the way, the new coin...

Bitcoin has been the big cryptocurrency monster that everyone talks about, but Ethereum has been making a run up that's second to none. As a matter of fact ETH is up over 13,000% in the last year and is up 60% this week alone. This one bears watching and for that matter crypto as a whole may...

South Korea is causing some big ugly waves in the world of cryptocurrency that is impacting Bitcoin, Etherrum, and XRP. Coinmarketcap.com yesterday removed price quote data from more than a few cryptos that caused a big negative movement. The story is over at WSJ (possible paywall). In...

Since 2009 Mark Zuckerberg has given himself several challenges per year to overcome. In 2018 he intends to focus on issues like hate speech, errors that Facebook makes enforcing policies and other stuff. The issues I find interesting that he is looking into are the use of encryption and...

It seems like yesterday, but it's been 9 years ago today since that first bitcoin block was mined. It paid out a whopping 50 BTC compared to today's 12.5 BTC payout per block. That 50 BTC is worth over $700K right now and would be a nice little nest egg if you mined it and held. Happy...

Earlier this month we reported that Venezulan President Maduro planed to introduce a cryptocurrency named the "petro" backed by oil, gas, and other resources in Venezula. Now it appears this is about to come true because the communications minister just announced it will be released in the next...

South Korea has decided to jump on the cryptocurrency regulation bandwagon and will no longer allow anonymous cryptocurrency accounts. Also, they will have regulators continually monitoring the exchanges from this point on. Further, new legislation may be put into place that would shut down...

If you take a look over at coinmarketcap, you'll see that cryptocurrencies have taken a big hit over the last 24 hours. Is this a sign of a bubble bursting or just a small hiccup? Time will tell what's going to happen. Good luck, speculators!

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken action for the first time against an initial coin offering utilizing it's new cyber fraud unit. According to the SEC, PlexCoin is nothing but a fraud and the person trying to get ICO money is a "recidivist securities law violator". If the...

Venezuelan President Maduro has announced that his country will now offer a new currency that he hopes will let them get around international financial sanctions. He calls his new currency the "petro" and it will be a cryptocurrency that's supposedly backed by oil, gas, gold, and diamond...

Coinbase and Gemini, two of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, both crashed this morning as the price of Bitcoin skyrocketed past the $11K mark. I'm sure this really ticked off a lot of people because they weren't able to login and sell as it peaked and now Bitcoin is back down to around $9K...

Believe it or not, new analysis by security firm High-Tech Bridge has found that 66 percent of popular cryptocurrency apps don't use HTTPS to encrypt information in transit. To make matters worse 94 percent of these apps had at least three medium-risk vulnerabilities. If you're using one of...

In an article from Vice, starting today, a new charity initiative called "Bail Bloc" allows users to download software to mine Monero cryptocurrency to provide bail money for people who can't afford it. The project will start by focusing on New York City jails, but in 2018 "funds will spread to...

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Betanews reports that Jordan Belfort, the man the movie the Wolf of Wall Street was based on, informs us of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) being the "biggest scam ever." ICOs are used to raise the funds for cryptocurrencies and he says it is far worse than anything he has done. Although, there is...