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by COINS NEWS - 7 months ago

Wallet phished for $4.46 million in fake mining scam

The unidentified victim was lured in a pig-butchering scam: long term trust building in order to get them to engage with a fake mining scam, where they lost $4.4 million worth of Tether to a wallet draining. F. submitted by /u/bin...

by COINS NEWS - 7 months ago

PayPal Can Freeze Your Crypto Assets

Even though Paypal’s new USD stablecoin has been deployed on the Ethereum blockchain, it does not mean it’s decentralized. Several people online have dug into the code of the coin’s smart contract and found some alarming things such as PayPal holding...

by COINS NEWS - 7 months ago

Is MarketCap/TVL a relevant indicator?

Marketcap We're all probably pretty familiar with market capitalization, it's the second indicator that draws our attention after the price column on popular sites that we use in the space such as coinmarketcap or coingecko. Most of us...

by COINS NEWS - 7 months ago

The IRS Bounty on Monero

People still mention the $625K bounty the IRS posted to crack Monero's privacy. A lot of misinfo is still being posted about it, but here are the facts. It's important to note that there were two $625K contracts awarded, one to Chainalysis, a...