Social media platforms Twitter and Reddit were flooded with messages of angry Robinhood users who said their accounts had been hacked and their money stolen. The popular trading app, which is used in the US, was blamed for non-existing customer service and not responding to email tickets.The story was especially frightening for one particular user who […]
After the Sushi drama (developer Chef Nomi sold his pre-mined coins which sank the price of a much hyped DeFi coin) unfolded, many saw YFI (Yearn Finance) as the next big thing. Developer Andre Cronje had a stellar reputation in the market and had been working silently on the sidelines since then.YFI slowly flippened the price of Bitcoin and […]
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is a big fan of all things crypto, which is why it was particularly sad to see that his social media platform was used over the summer to stage the biggest Twitter Bitcoin scam ever, social engineering and taking over the accounts of various celebrities to ask for payments in crypto.Dorsey didn’t let […]
The DeFi hype is finding it’s baseline we guess as many of the once-hyped coins are seeing a rapid descend towards more reasonable prices. The only good news to come out of this is that Ethereum’s trading fees are returning to normal levels. Whereas in the beginning of september they stood as a record value […]
Vitalik Buterin, CEO and founder of Ethereum, is usually quite technical and theoretical on Twitter and other social media channels. Earlier this week he was very clear though when voicing his apparent approval for Portuguese Author Bruno Maçães, and his interesting essay, entitled: Crypto State?Belt and RoadMaçães, famed author of political books such as Belt and […]
Justin Sun, founder of Tron and CEO Of BitTorrent, is taking the fight to become’s DeFi’s trusted platform directly to his former colleague Vitalik Buterin. As he spoke at the LA Blockchain Summit, Justin made it clear that Tron was much better suited to serve as an ecosystem for DeFi project than Ethereum was.https://twitter.com/_RyanCalder/status/1313636847172513793His reasoning […]
Although it still operates under a threat of regulatory overhaul (and a possible ban by Prime Minister Modi’s Bharatiya Janata political party), the usage of crypto in India is still soaring. As we’ve reported in the past, the Indian subcontinent sees it as a clear long-term investment. In a culture where the family’s honor is […]
The well-known cybersecurity entrepreneur and one of crypto’s most interesting personalities, Mr John McAfee, was arrested in Spain over charges of tax evasion. He is being presented by the Securities and Exchange Commission with several charges, most notably for touting several crypto coins during the 2017-2018 ICO bull run.https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1313231036294279170According to the complaint, John McAfee received […]
It is said that the Asian tiger economies of the 1990s (by following the example of Japan in the 1980s), were able to rise as fast as they did by copying the style of the US’s industrial production during the second World War. The methodology is known as catch-up nations. Furthermore, as the US’s grand scale […]
Fredrick Brennan, the creator of multiple infamous message boards, is a known cryptographer and code-writer. In the past few years, he was featured in various interviews and even the protagonist of a Vice documentary. This time round, his anger is mostly aimed at Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters, the QAnon conspiracy theorists. In the past […]
