A Hidden Risk for Domestic Violence Victims: Family Phone Plans
Abusers can use shared accounts to stalk and harass victims, and plans aren’t always easy to escape. Powered by...
Crypto Scammers Steal $381 Million in 2020, While Twitter Hackers Direct Funds to Mixers
Cryptocurrency related scams have taken a total of $381 million from victims so far this year. This figure makes crypto scams the largest category of cryptocurrency-related crimes so far in 2020. Chainalysis data still shows current figures are well below those seen in 2019. In 2019, scams accounted for 74% of crypto-related crimes. The current 2020 drop in value of crypto scams is attributed to the absence of a major scam like the...
pNetwork Launches Yield Farming Programme, Steroids
The pNetwork, the decentralised ecosystem backing the cross-chain pTokens solution, has announced the launch of its yield farming programme, Steroids. The programme will run for a period of one month and will award Uniswap liquidity providers with up to 10% monthly interest, distributed in pNetwork Token (PNT). Designed to onboard new users, increase liquidity and boost adoption of the entire pNetwork ecosystem, Steroids will go live...
NBA Point Guard Spencer Dinwiddie’s Tokenized Contract Raises $1.3 Million
NBA player Spencer Dinwiddie has finished the token sale of his contract that is hosted on the Ethereum blockchain. The sale of Dinwiddie’s tokenized contract raised $1.3 million which was only a tenth of what the project hoped to sell ($13.5 million). Even though the Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie put a lot of energy into getting his NBA contract tokenized, the basketball player only got 10% of what they hoped to raise....
New Russian Law Bans Bitcoin Payments for Goods and Services
Russian lawmakers have passed a bill that gives legal status to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin – but bans them from being used to pay for goods and services. Legislators approved the Digital Financial Assets (DFA) bill on July 22 after its third and final reading. It had already won backing from senior lawmakers like Anatoly Aksakov, who heads parliament’s financial markets committee. The new law recognizes digital...
