South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinrail was hacked on Sunday, losing about 30 percent of the coins traded there. The site has temporarily suspended trading as it works with investigators. A statement on the exchange’s site sought to reassure users — saying that the remainder of the coins were “safely stored” — but Reuters reports that …
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Think your gaming PC is beefy? Try mining cryptocurrency. Each of the 20 blue lines on this Asus H370 Mining Master motherboard is a special USB port designed specifically to connect a graphics card. That’s right: 20 graphics cards in a single computer. Not to mention three power supplies to keep them going. Because last year’s Asus crypto-mining motherboard only …
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Now playing: Watch this: Gmail gets a big reboot (The 3:59, Ep. 392) 4:19 On this podcast, we talk about: The new Gmail and what features it comes with A hack that turned Amazon’s Alexa into a listening device How digital currencies are helping the poor out of poverty The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top …
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This story is part of “Follow the Money,” a look at how digital cash is changing the way we save, shop and work. John Kunze walked into a check-cashing store along Lexington Avenue in Manhattan a few months ago. It had red neon signs in the windows, cold fluorescent lights and a loop of muzak piping through the speakers. He …
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Blockchain is all the rage right now, and you’ll soon see the world’s first blockchain-based phone. Finney, created by Sirin Labs, will be a phone that lets people store and use digital currencies without having to pay transaction fees, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. This means you won’t need to carry USB sticks along with your digital wallet. Instead, everything will all be …
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Ah, McAfee, you’ve done it again. John McAfee, the antivirus software pioneer whose bio includes a murder accusation, has let it be known that he’s charging $105,000 per tweet promoting a cryptocurrency or an initial coin offering (ICO). Using his lucrative Twitter account, the self-proclaimed “crypto visionary” tweeted to his 811,000 followers a link to The McAfee Crypto Team website …
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Twitter has confirmed a report that it’s joining Google and Facebook in banning advertisement on its site for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. As part of its commitment to “ensuring the safety of the Twitter community,” the social media site is adding a new policy prohibiting the advertisement of initial coin offerings and token sales, a Twitter representative said Monday in an …
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Google is the latest company to crack down on advertising for cryptocurrencies. The search giant said Tuesday it will revise its ad policies in June to restrict ads for cryptocurrencies and related information, such as initial coin offerings, cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets and cryptocurrency trading advice. That ban goes for both ads on Google’s own website and sites Google serves …
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Browser maker Brave Software is giving away another $1 million in crypto-tokens, this time to try to get publishers and YouTube stars to sign up for the technology and get their followers to do the same. The promotion uses Brave’s basic attention tokens (BAT), a digital currency Brave created in 2017 to let advertisers pay publishers and browser users. Publishers …
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Brave Software has embarked on the next phase of its plan to get you to use its browser — and to build a privacy-first alternative to today’s online ad industry. The Brave browser blocks ads and ad trackers by default, a move that makes pages load faster and eliminates some prying into our lives online. But the startup doesn’t want …
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