Over the past three years, there’s been a notable movement in bitcoin holdings. Since September 1, 2020, a whopping 804,000 bitcoin, equivalent to $ 20.79 billion, has been pulled from centralized exchanges. Notably, 184,000 BTC of that sum, valued at $ 4.75 billion, was withdrawn in just the last three months. Billions in …
Jellyfish Mobile to Curb the SIM-Swap Menace That Led to Losses Worth $140 Million in Two Years
PRESS RELEASE. The cryptocurrency market lacks regulation, leading to potential risks for investors, including SIM-swap scams. By this technique, hackers manipulate mobile carrier customer service to gain access to a user’s phone number, allowing them to bypass security measures and access accounts. Bart Stephens, co-founder of Blockchain Capital, fell victim to a SIM-swap attack, resulting […]
Post Status Celebrates 10 Years, Adds Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt as Partners
This year Post Status is celebrating a decade of serving WordPress professionals with its member-supported community. The site was founded by Brian Krogsgard in 2013, and now runs an active Slack community with 2,083 members, a weekly newsletter with 4,300 subscribers, and a job board. As a testament to the community’s continued …
Idle No More: $11.4 Million in ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ Wake up After Years of Dormancy
Hovering just above the $ 29,000 mark, bitcoin’s value remained relatively stable while an interesting event occurred on Saturday afternoon: a dormant cache of 195.79 bitcoins, untouched for over seven years, was transferred for the first time since 2016. This action was followed by another sequence of events; when a batch of slumbering bitcoins …
UBS Expects US Dollar Dominance to Persist for ‘Years to Come’
Swiss investment banking giant UBS expects the U.S. dollar’s reign to live on. “We firmly believe we will be living in a U.S. dollar-centric world for years to come,” the bank’s executive said, adding that there will be some room for competitors. UBS on US Dollar’s Dominance Switzerland-headquartered investment bank UBS has argued that the […]