Monero

Data shows that the impacts of the recent Twitter hack were fairly limited, with a small handful of users sending just over $100,000 worth of Bitcoin to the address shilled as part of a classic crypto giveaway scam. According to recent reports, it appears that the impacts of the scam …

Argentina’s largest telecommunications company has fallen victim to a $7.5M ransomware attack. Source link

Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. It’s been another boring week for Bitcoin. This may sound like a broken record at this point, but it’s true. As the chart below shows, the leading cryptocurrency has again been stuck in the low-$9,000s for days on end, failing to react to news …

A Parisian street artist is receiving hundreds of dollars every day in bitcoin donations from his painting that speaks about “fiat and money printing.” Pascal Boyart’s latest mural, “Confessions of a Red Jester”, is a modern interpretation of the 1862 painting “Stańczyk” by Polish romanticist painter Jan Matejko. The original …

Andreas Antonopoulos says Bitcoin will probably never have privacy features like those in Monero. Source link

The United States tax agency has published a request for information pertaining to privacy-centric cryptocurrencies and technologies that obfuscate crypto transactions. The IRS-CI Cyber Crimes Unit request is also asking for information in relation to “layer two offchain protocol networks, sidechains, and the Schnorr Signature algorithm.” A recently published IRS-CI …

A news website for the jihadist movement associated with ISIS has adopted Monero donations after having taken donations in Bitcoin for three years. Source link

On June 12, 2020, the former CEO of Mt Gox, Mark Karpeles, tweeted about the notorious Craig Wright, the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Karpeles and a number of crypto community members, assert that Wright’s legal team from London has been sending documents to certain individuals. The documents …

Sophos revealed recent botnet attacks breach Microsoft SQL server databases to install a well-known Monero mining app. Source link

Although there were some early signs that an altcoin season may be upon us, top crypto assets like Ethereum have been reverted to weakening performance against Bitcoin. However, a big move is potentially coming, as the Bollinger Band Width of most major crypto assets on their BTC trading pairs is …