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DOT/ How ‘Baby Al Capone’ pulled off a $23.8 million crypto heist
Ellis Pinsky, a high-school senior in Irvington, NY, has been named as "an evil mastermind" in a $71.4 million civil complaint accusing him of cryptocurrency theft when he was just 15 years old.
More on New York Post• 2020-05-23
/ The Crisis Happened: What’s Next?
Fixed income markets become volatile, illiquid and dysfunctional, as investors rush for the exit. Securitised bond-based assets, such as CLOs and Bond ETFs, trade at a significant discount to their net asset values. The contagion spreads across other liquid asset classes, such as equities.
More on BitMEX Research• 2020-05-22
/ In The Beginning There Was House
Writing these digests presents an opportunity to spitball my thoughts. Hopefully they remain coherent once they reach my word processor and I catch myself in intellectual fallacies before I do more harm to my capital.
More on BitMEX Blog• 2020-05-22
/ Coinbase Custody adds staking support for Cosmos and Algorand tokens
The move allows Coinbase Custody’s clients to stake the two tokens and earn passive income. The rates of return and fees are currently unknown. The Block has reached out to the firm and will update this story should we hear back.
More on The Block• 2020-05-21
/ Craig Wright Denies Transferring ‘Satoshi’ Coins, Leaving Him in Legal Catch-22
Wright has denied moving 50 Bitcoin from one of the ‘Satoshi’ accounts that were potentially his, leaving him in a legal quandary.
More on Cointelegraph• 2020-05-21
/ IBM Takes 7% Stake in Trade-Finance Blockchain Network We.Trade
IBM has become a shareholder in we.trade, the trade-finance platform jointly owned by 12 European banks, signaling further consolidation across the enterprise blockchain space.
More on CoinDesk• 2020-05-21
/ Europa Market Exit Scams with Fake Seizure Banner
Not even two weeks after the Avior Market ordeal, a second marketplace disappeared with stolen funds. The market, Europa Market, did things differently; instead of vanishing, market administrators pretended that law enforcement had seized the marketplace. Market visitors now face a fake seizure banner instead of a familiar login page when accessing the site.
More on Darknetlive• 2020-05-20
/ Libra member Shopify adds another way to pay with crypto
Crypto payments processor CoinPayments has teamed with Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify to give merchants more ways to accept crypto online.
More on Decrypt• 2020-05-20
/ New DNS Vulnerability Lets Attackers Launch Large-Scale DDoS Attacks
Called NXNSAttack, the flaw hinges on the DNS delegation mechanism to force DNS resolvers to generate more DNS queries to authoritative servers of attacker's choice, potentially causing a botnet-scale disruption to online services.
More on The Hacker News• 2020-05-20
/ Introducing Signal PINs
Signal PINs are based on Secure Value Recovery, which we previewed in December, to allow supporting data like your profile, settings, and who you’ve blocked to be securely recovered should you lose or switch devices.
More on Signal• 2020-05-19