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OneCoin Ponzi Scheme: Scam of the Decade Continues in 2020’s Oceania

Recently, we’ve published an investigation into a large-scale Ponzi-scheme called OneCoin. The scheme had its branches in several different countries across several continents, defrauding people of billions of dollars.

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Dead Man’s Chest: A Story of QuadrigaCX CEO Gerald Cotten Who Took $137 Million Worth of Users’ Assets to the Grave

On December 9, 2018, in the Indian city of Jaipur QudrigaCX CEO Gerald Cotten (30) allegedly died of cardiac arrest. He was reported to have suffered from Crohn’s disease and on the day of his death turned out to be the only holder of private keys to cold wallets with QuadrigaCX’s users’ assets worth $137 […]

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Opinion: BSV May Look More Like Joke, but There’s More to It

Craig Wright is undoubtedly a famous if not notorious figure in the crypto-industry. The entrepreneur has been involved in several notable controversies and is one of the most polarizing celebrities for the crypto-community. Bitcoin SV, a Bitcoin fork headed by Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre, is a similarly polarizing phenomenon. The last few days were […]

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Global Political Game and Bitcoin Price

In the crypto community and the society at large, there has been a long-running debate pertaining to whether Bitcoin can be defined as a protective asset along with gold, Japanese yen, Swiss franc, and U.S. government bonds. Some experts insist that the unique properties of the first cryptocurrency make it a safe haven for periods […]

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Another Pyramid That Could: Cashbery, Crypto, and the Legacy of a Post-Soviet Scam Legend

There are important lessons that go by with seemingly minuscule effects. The legendary MMM, a pyramid scheme orchestrated by Sergei Mavrodi in the 1990s, is one of them. The post-Soviet countries of the period were somewhat of a Wild West. The opportunities were huge, but not everybody was in a position to seize them. Those […]

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What Is DEX?

1 What is a decentralized exchange? Decentralized exchange (DEX) is an exchange built on a distributed ledger. It does not store users’ private data on its servers and only serves as a platform for matching users’ bids and asks. All trade that happens on such a platform is strictly peer-to-peer with no financial intermediaries. That […]

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Is $1.1 Billion Transaction in Bitcoin That Big of a Deal?

As it became known, the mysterious party that had transferred 124 946.6 BTC proved to be BitFinex. According to the exchange’s CTO Paolo Ardoino, the transaction was but a part of transferring 150 thousand BTC to the company’s hot wallet.

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Retracing Monero’s Steps in 2019

Monero is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency launched in 2014. Unlike some other cryptocurrencies, Monero is not a Bitcoin fork and is based on its own whitepaper and codebase.

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Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation: We Want Ukraine to Join Countries That Develop New Economy

Ukrainian legislators are working on regulations for the crypto-industry. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (the country’s parliament) will hear the tax law amendments that will include the definition of cryptocurrencies. The Ministry of Digital Transformation, which is tasked with the creation of the “state in a smartphone,” is now collaborating with Binance to reach its […]

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What Is Stablecoin?

1 What is a stableсoin? Stablecoin is a cryptocurrency with a fixed exchange rate or with certain means of resisting exchange rate fluctuations. In most cases, stablecoins are pegged to real-life assets like fiat currencies, precious metals, or asset baskets. Others emulate certain monetary policies practiced by central banks in a decentralized fashion. 2 How […]

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The Threat of Quantum Computers: Will Bitcoin Get Hacked?

Quantum computing has been one of the horror stories for bitcoin enthusiasts for a while now. Experts have repeatedly argued that this new tech would endanger the very existence of the network, which no one has managed to hack since its launch.

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On the Verge of Web 3.0: Next Generation Blockchain-Browsers

Blockchain’s rise to celebrity status is often compared to the dawn of commercial development of the Internet. In the early 90s, new technologies were treated with caution by many and few people truly understood the scope of innovation which humanity will accumulate in the upcoming 20 years. Today almost every company has its own website […]

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