Berkshire Hathaway’s boyband Buffett+Munger have been making headlines again. And although they just announced over 1B loss with their funds, these two are still talking sh1t about Bitcoin. Yes, I know, I should be writing about dark side of crypto, ICO scams and whatnot, but I can not pass this one. After calling Bitcoin hype…
It was in January when crypto investor and minor Youtube celebrity Pavel Nyashin was attacked in Leningrad Oblast. Robbers took over 400 thousand dollars cash along with the safe, after Nyashin had been showing off stacks of money in his recent Youtube videos. After the attack Pavel Nyashin moved to St. Petersburg’s suburbs and stopped…
No more ICO shenanigans in Colorado – The Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) just released a statement that two companies who were promoting Initial Coin Offerings (by the way, not legal in Colorado) are being investigated, likely prosecution to follow. Those two companies are Broad Investments LLC from Washington and California-based Linda Healthcare Corporation….
It was only couple of days ago when we wrote about MEW’s phishing attack, where hackers got away with over 200 ETH. Popular wallet’s team gave insight on the matter on Twitter, where they emphasized that they weren’t actually hacked, but phishing attack took place because the public Google DNS servers were compromised. Well, we…
This is actually funny to me. All Bitcoin Cash fanboys simply believe that Bitcoin Cash is a continuation of the original Bitcoin project – which it isn’t. Roger Ver, one of the driving for behind Bitcoin Cash, will likely be sued by a group of Bitcoin activists. There’s already a Telegram group named “Bitcoin.com lawsuit/…
Someone from a semi-secret Discord chat group went public with screenshots of chat histories that exposed some quite high profile cryptocurrency influencers planning a classic pump and dump scheme. Which in the world of “real trading” is criminal activity that might land people in real jail. Chat group is called Bitcoin Bravado and all hell…
So you want to buy Bitcoin with cash? Yes, Bitcoin can also be purchased with cash. If you have decided to do that, your best option will be LocalBitcoins. There you can buy Bitcoin with cash trade in-person or buy with a cash deposit. This method works for most countries in the world. LocalBitcoins mission…
World’s most popular Ethereum wallet generator MyEtherWallet was hacked today and so far nearly 200,000 dollars worth of cryptocurrency has been moved to hackers wallet. Here is what we know so far. MyEtherWallet says problem was not on their side, but on Google’s – multinational conglomerate’s DNS servers were hijacked using a well-known hacking technique….
Just couple of days ago a good friend of mine asked, ‘CryptoVigilante, how to get a bitcoin account?’ To many of you oldtimers her wording might sound funny, but I understood what she wanted. She wanted to buy Bitcoins and then keep them safe somewhere. And of course I helped her. HOW TO GET A…
Martin Lewis is an English journalist, but he is more known as a celebrity money-saving guru. Lewis just tweeted that he is going to sue Facebook. He accuses world’s biggest social network of “defamation related to deceptive cryptocurrency advertisements” – as he writes in his blog. Lewis claims that Facebook has shown over 50 cryptocurrency…
This just in – Commodity Futures Trading Commision recently filed a case against group of people because of their involvement in a fraudulent scheme involving ATM Coin [ATMC]. It’s written in the complaint that Blue Bit Banc allowed their customers to trade binary options. The group (Blake Harrison Kantor, Nathan Mullins, Blue Bit Banc, Blue…
Cryptocurrency initial coin offering is an alternative form of crowdfunding. It is a way of getting funding to business projects. It emerged as an unexpected side benefit of worldwide crypto evolution and since then initial coin offering is totally reshaped startup scene. Initial coin offerings (also known as ICOs) have been so succesful as a…
How can we guarantee anonymity when we transfer Bitcoin? It might come as surprise, but Bitcoin is not so anonymous as it is being advertised by many. It is actually very tricky to hide bitcoin transactions; stay totally anonymous when using it. This is because every Bitcoin transaction is saved in blockchain, which means it…
Litecoin subreddit user ‘danbel79’ discovered few days ago that his wallet was missing 2349 LTC, which is worth over 360,000 American dollars. Story of stolen Litecoin. “On the morning of April 12, I decided to reset Windows 10 using the recovery option. and wipe out all files, which I had already backed-up on another drive,”…
The infamous “Big Bitcoin Heist” star, the bad boy of Iceland’s cryptocurrency mining, has fled the country. As written in Iceland’s Frettabladid newspaper, Sindri Thor Stefansson was being detained and held in Sogn prison, which is an open prison. How Scandinavian! After escaping prison Stefansson drove to Keflavik International Airport, where he boarded a flight…
In this article we are going to learn how to tumble bitcoins. Some also call it bitcoin washing. Authorities often go further and claim it is “bitcoin laundering”. I hope you don’t get us wrong, we don’t have criminal minds. We just like to know how things work! Bitcoin tumbling is a process of using…
Needless to say, cryptocurrency is a highly volatile market. That means you can make lots of money very quick, but can also lose money. Never invest more than you are willing to lose. We’ve come a long way in the eight years since Bitcoin’s original release. Back in 2009, when the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto launched…