Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Trusts from Grayscale Investments Begin Trading
Grayscale Investments’ Litecoin Trust (LTCN) and Bitcoin Cash Trust (BCHG) have received DTC eligibility on Monday, which means the shares can begin trading publicly. The firm’s latest funds give investors exposure to the crypto assets bitcoin cash and litecoin and shares will be traded via secondary markets. Both LTC and BCH supporters were pleased to hear that Grayscale’s new crypto trusts met DTC eligibility on...
Ethereum Classic 51% Attack: Okex Crypto Exchange Suffers $5.6 Million Loss, Contemplates Delisting ETC
Cryptocurrency exchange Okex reveals it suffered the $5.6 million loss as a result of the double-spend carried out by the attacker(s) in Ethereum Classic 51% attack. Okex says it fully absorbed the loss as per its user-protection policy while insisting that the attack did not cause any loss to the platform’s users. Also as part of its immediate responses to the attack, the OKEx team said the “exchange had suspended...
YTS Operator Helped Movie Companies Catch a Pirating User
Lawsuits against pirating Internet subscribers are far from new. In the US, they first appeared more than a decade ago. Over the years, the evidence in these lawsuits was regularly contested. In some cases this led to success, with courts concluding that an IP-address alone is not enough. After all, an IP-address doesn’t identify a person. Most prominent was a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in the Cobbler Nevada v....
Kim Dotcom Predicts NZ Supreme Court Will Rule in Favor of Extradition
The now-infamous Megaupload case has been treading a tortuous legal path for more than eight years in New Zealand. The United States Government wants Kim Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk, and Finn Batato, physically delivered as quickly as possible, to face what has been billed as the largest copyright infringement lawsuit of all time. After several lower courts determined that the Megaupload defendants should indeed be...
Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 08/17/20
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. These torrent download statistics are meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have five new entries in the list. The sci-fi action movie “Project Power” is the most downloaded title this week. The Netflix film, starring Jamie...
