El Salvador’s potential $ 3 trillion gold discovery has sparked debates over mining bans, sustainability, and the possibility of increased bitcoin investments, potentially reshaping the nation’s future. El Salvador’s $ 3T Gold Discovery Sparks Calls to Monetize Gold for Bitcoin Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has highlighted the potential of El Salvador’s untapped gold …
Check Point Discovers Mobile Crypto Drainer App on Google Play Store: $70K Stolen From 10,000 Users
Check Point Research (CPR) has uncovered a new threat: a mobile crypto drainer app found on Google Play. This app, deceptively posing as the legitimate WalletConnect tool, exploited the growing popularity of digital assets and targeted users directly on their mobile devices. Over five months, it achieved more than 10,000 downloads and stole around $ […]
Blockchain Parser Discovers Strange Spending of $58.7M Worth of Sleeping Bitcoins From 2017
In the past week, several strange movements of dormant bitcoins have captured the attention of onchain analysts, with nine transactions on Jan. 31, 2024, mobilizing 726 bitcoins that had been stagnant since Mar. 30, 2016. Merely two days after, a staggering 1,210 bitcoins, originating from addresses created on the same date in 2016, were dispatched […]