In a twist of fate, Youtube was sued by Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse. The lawsuit was filed Northern District of California. And it alleges that Youtube did not prevent those fake "The XRP Giveaway" that made rounds in their social media resulting to lost of millions of XRP to those cyber criminals. Here is the official documents: https://ripple.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ECF-1-Complaint-20-cv-2747.pdfTo be honest, I really don't know if this will hold on court. But what we all know is that Youtube as of late is trying to clean up their mess by banning a lot of crypto channels.
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Popular decentralized lending platform Lendf.Me was recently hacked and lost $25 million. A Summary of the Attack on Lendf.Me on April 19, 2020 On 19 April 2020, Lendf.Me, the lending protocol in the dForce network, was attacked and approximately $25 million in assets were drained from the contract.
We know that the hackers utilized a vulnerability within the ERC777 standard of imBTC to execute a reentrancy attack. The callback mechanism of ERC777 (imBTC) enabled the hacker to supply and withdraw imBTC repeatedly before the balance was updated. More analysis on the hack can be viewed from PeckShield’s report.
The hacker(s) have attempted to contact us and we intend to enter into discussions with them. https://medium.com/dforcenet/a-summary-of-the-attack-on-lendf-me-on-april-19-2020-e2f1c5d96640So another sad day for crypto enthusiast as the hackers drained all the money, including the founding with a whopping $25 million. I really don't know what to say but damn those hackers. It was reported that the hackers have contacted them, but I don't know if he will give back the money or what. So the attack vector used is by introducing what we call a 'toxic asset' as a collateral and then supposedly borrow some funds, or shall we shall borrow all the funds.
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https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qnav5fjv4qcz4dlkyq6ncxa5an36ag7e0ee8klmI'm sure everyone here is still aware and remember this WannaCry ransomware which hit us in 2017 and many fell victim and it was reported that this ransomware stole in the ball park number (low) of around $50k to a million. And last Thursday, one of its known addresses has woke up and the criminals may have a plan to cash it out very soon.
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Hindi ko sure kung nabasa nyo na to: Preserving open source software for future generations https://archiveprogram.github.com/So napag isip isip ko lang kung tayo mismo ang mag preserba ng orihinal na source code ng Bitcoin. May nakita akong lumang thread circa 2012 pa: v0.1na post dito ung isang kopya na galing pa kay Hal Finney, naisip ko lang na kahit sa maliit na gesture eh tayo mismo mag download nito at i preserved. Maganda rin pag-aralan lalo na sa mga studyante natin dyan na Computer Science or any computer related courses na silipin ang original source code at tingnan ang coding skills ni Satoshi Nakamoto. Tandaan lang na hindi na ito gumagana magandang reference lang at silip silipin. Parang si @malevolent na lang yata ang pina active dyan sa thread na yan hanggang sa ngayon.
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https://twitter.com/molllliy/status/1250085748092485634Someone posted this, but probably this is still on the testing phase. You can read on the thread of that twitter post that there are more questions. One thing is for sure, this is very much centralised, just to let everyone know.
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Here is the consultative documents: Risks and vulnerabilities raised by global stablecoins
2.1.Potential risks to financial stability from a GSCGSCs could pose financial stability risks through some key channels: First, if a GSC were used as a common store of value, even a moderate variation in its value might cause significant fluctuations in users’ wealth. Such wealth effects may be sizeable enough to affect spending decisions and economic activity. Wealth effects may be particularly pronounced in EMDEs where the likelihood of GSCs becoming a mainstream store of value may be higher than in advanced economies (AE). Second, if widely used for payments, any operational disruption in the GSC arrangement might have significant impacts on economic activity and financial system functioning. If users relied upon a stablecoin to make regular payments, significant operational disruptions could quickly affect real economic activity, e.g. by blocking remittances and other payments. Large-scale flows of funds into or out of the GSC could test the ability of the supporting infrastructure to handle high transaction volumes and the financing conditions of the wider financial system.
2.2.Vulnerabilities arising from the functions and activities of a GSC arrangementWhile the significance of the individual channels discussed above depends on what a GSC is used for and how widely it is used, the vulnerability of the GSC itself to shocks depends on how the functions and activities of the GSC arrangement are designed and performed. A scenario analysis conducted by the FSB identifies three main types of vulnerabilities. This scenario analysis focuses on asset-linked GSCs that have reserve assets and where the user has the ability to redeem the GSCs.
https://cryptobriefing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/financial-stability-board-addressing-regulatory-supervisory-oversight-challenges-globals-stablecoin-arrangements-pdf.pdfOk it looks like FSB is addressing everything related to GSC like risk and supervisory and oversight challenges. I'm still trying to digest everything, and I'm no expert here. But I don't see any impact at all with crypto in general, specially bitcoin. What are your thoughts?
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What happened: Fake Forkdelta website Website: https://forkdelta.id/#!/trade/ARC-ETH Archived: https://web.archive.org/save/https://forkdelta.id/#!/trade/ARC-ETH Whois Record for ForkDelta.id Domain Profile Registrar Status clientTransferProhibited, serverTransferProhibited Dates 588 days old Created on 2018-08-30 Expires on 2020-08-30 Name Servers DNS1.BACLOUD.COM (has 2,738 domains) DNS1.LAISVAS.LT (has 676 domains) DNS2.BACLOUD.COM (has 2,738 domains) DNS2.LAISVAS.LT (has 676 domains) Tech Contact — IP Address 91.216.163.91 - 241 other sites hosted on this server IP Location Lithuania - Siauliu Apskritis - Siauliai - Informacines Sistemos Ir Technologijos Uab ASN Lithuania AS61272 (registered Dec 12, 2012) Hosting History 2 changes on 3 unique name servers over 2 years http://whois.domaintools.com/forkdelta.id
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Magandang umaga sa ating lahat, nawa'y nasa mabuti kayong kalagayan, medyo masama pakiramdam ko kahapon (not Covid related ah) kaya hindi ako nakapag pasalamat sa mga nag bigay ng huling merit para maabot ko ang "Legendary" rank. So maraming salamat sa mga sumusunod: Maus0728, Bttzed03, Rosilito, sheenshane, Asuspawer09, Coyster at kay Asu at Bisdak40.
Halos umabot ako ng 3 taon na mapag rank up ang account ko sa Legendary dahil nga sa introduction ng merit system. So medyo mahaba haba talaga ang biyahe ko kumpara sa iba na malapit na ring maging Legendary. So talagang mahirap din talaga magpa rank up, kailangan talagang tiyagin mo linggo linggo. Minsan naiisip ko nga kung makaka merit ako this week. Lalo na yung start ng 2020, dahil namatayan kami at wala ako sa kondisyon mag post nun, pero tiyaga lang talaga.
Siguro pinalad lang din akong mapasali sa matagal na campaign. Naalala ko pa walang pumapansin sa campaign na yan nung simula kasi mababa ang sweldo kasi ang taas pa ng bitcoin that time. At itong campaign na to eh nagbibigay ng bonus kaya talagang napilitan akong mag post na makakatulong sa community at sigurado akong pamilyar kayo sa mga post ko na yun. Isang tip na lang din yun, wag palipat lipat ng campaign, hindi natin alam baka maging long running campaign to.
Katulad ng sinabi ko marami pang parating na Legendary at sigurado akong makakuha nyo rin yan balang araw, konting tiyaga lang at sigurado akong magtutulungan din tayong kapwa pinoy.
Although may mga nangyari na naman na nadadamay ang komunidad natin katulad ng kaso ni TYM at ngayon kung mga nahuling alts. Pero dapat itayo parin natin ang bandila natin dito marami tayong mahuhusay na Pinoy.
So ingat ingat wag na lumabas ng bahay alam naman natin ang sitwasyon.
Maraming salamat ulit.
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Remember the 888,888 airdrop from KICK? Now scammers are capitalising on it. What happened: : Fake and phishing IDEX-Kick ICO Website: Archived: http://web.archive.org/save/https://idex-claim.su/DO NOT DOWLOAD THE DESKTOP IDEX 2.0 as it contains malware:
It it hosted on: Whois Record for IDex-Claim.su Domain Profile Registrant Private Person Registrar REGRU-SU IANA ID: — URL: — Whois Server: — Registrar Status REGISTERED, Dates 4 days old Created on 2020-04-02 Expires on 2021-04-02 Name Servers HOSTING.MSK.HOST. (has 154 domains) LIME.NS.MSK.HOST. (has 154 domains) Tech Contact — IP Address 45.138.72.7 - -1 other site is hosted on this server IP Location Russian Federation - Moskva - Moscow - Shavrin Ilya Andreevich ASN Russian Federation AS207319 (registered Feb 27, 2020) Hosting History 1 change on 2 unique name servers over 0 year
http://whois.domaintools.com/idex-claim.suAnd that ip address is a cess pool of malwares: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/45.138.72.7/relations
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What Happened: Ponzi Scheme, claiming to give exorbitant returns in 7 days. Website: https://trading-binance.com/online/ Archived: http://web.archive.org/save/https://trading-binance.com/online/Whois Record for Trading-BiNance.com Domain Profile Registrant Ibrahim Mustapha Registrant Country ng Registrar NameSilo, LLC IANA ID: 1479 URL: https://www.namesilo.com/,http://www.namesilo.com Whois Server: whois.namesilo.com
(p) Registrar Status clientTransferProhibited Dates 63 days old Created on 2020-02-02 Expires on 2021-02-02 Updated on 2020-03-29 Name Servers NS5.AFEESHOST.COM (has 156 domains) NS6.AFEESHOST.COM (has 156 domains) Tech Contact Ibrahim Mustapha 290, Ikorodu Road, Ikeja, Lagos, 23401, ng
(p) IP Address 107.178.102.70 - 225 other sites hosted on this server IP Location United States Of America - Arizona - Phoenix - Iconvergence ASN United States Of America AS53755 (registered May 10, 2011) Domain Status Registered And Active Website http://whois.domaintools.com/trading-binance.comClaiming to give 10% returns if you invested: $300-$399, 12% for $1000-$4999, 15% for $5000-$1 million.And then there is the fake Company Registration here: https://trading-binance.com/online/tradingbinance.pdf And then the final nail in the coffin, they are using Binance's name. SO FOR NEWBIES, STAY OUT OF THIS WEBSITE, THIS IS A CLASSIC PONZI SCHEME.
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I was playing along and looking for fake Trezor site. I posted my find here, {Warning}: Fake Trezor (geo-target). When suddenly another Google Ads caught my attention, https://bit2.to/?ref=6388&gclid=CjwKCAjw4KD0BRBUEiwA7MFNTfPSZtzq0CEeu9DPYRJAYBNXi5veADpihWo58PWuGbuWCT6b4ALsvxoCNLUQAvD_BwE This is obviously another bitcoin doubler and not to be trusted. Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20200404115204/https://bit2.to/Whois Record for Bit2.to Domain Profile Registrar Status taken Name Servers TIFFANY.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 22,303,685 domains) WESLEY.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 22,303,685 domains) Tech Contact — IP Address 104.27.158.147 - 559 other sites hosted on this server IP Location United States Of America - California - San Francisco - Cloudflare Inc. ASN United States Of America AS13335 (registered Jul 14, 2010) Hosting History 1 change on 2 unique name servers over 0 year http://whois.domaintools.com/bit2.toAccording to the website, they have started last March 16, 2020. And I'm pretty sure that in about a months time, they will pull an exit scam.
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There is a new phishing attack the cyber criminals are carrying out, through geo target. This is one example. Go to https://www.google.com.hk/ and type "Trezor". And then the first thing that you will notice is this ad. And when you click it, you will be redirected to this website. The website will give you a 403 Forbidden Error if it detected that you are not from the location .hk (hence geo-target). Obviously, this is a phishing website and I do hope that some of our friends in Hong Kong will not fall for this trick. https://wallet.trczor.com/#/ Whois Record for tRcZor.com Domain Profile Registrant REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Registrant Country ru Registrar ERANET INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Eranet International Limited IANA ID: 1868 URL: http://www.eranet.com Whois Server: whois.eranet.com
(p) Registrar Status clientTransferProhibited Dates 28 days old Created on 2020-03-06 Expires on 2021-03-06 Updated on 2020-03-27 Name Servers SERENA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 22,313,248 domains) TONY.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 22,313,248 domains) Tech Contact REDACTED FOR PRIVACY REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY (p) (f) IP Address 190.115.18.221 - 2 other sites hosted on this server IP Location Belize - Belize - Belize City - Ddos-guard Corp. ASN Belize AS262254 (registered Dec 05, 2012) http://whois.domaintools.com/trczor.com
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What happened: Fake Telegram ICOWebsite: https://telegramcrypto.net/ Archived: http://web.archive.org/save/https://telegramcrypto.net/ Whois Record for TelegramCrypto.net How does this work? Domain Profile Registrant Pavel Zuev Registrant Org Private Person Registrant Country ru Registrar Registrar of domain names REG.RU LLC REGISTRAR OF DOMAIN NAMES REG.RU LLC IANA ID: 1606 URL: https://www.reg.com,https://www.reg.ru,http://www.reg.ru Whois Server: whois.reg.com
(p) Registrar Status clientTransferProhibited Dates 2 days old Created on 2020-04-01 Expires on 2021-04-01 Updated on 2020-04-01 Name Servers BRIANNA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 22,313,248 domains) TOSANA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 22,313,248 domains) Tech Contact Pavel Zuev Private Person 3-liniya, 2 polovini, 23 korpus, 3, Sankt-Peterburg, Sankt-Peterburg, 187021, ru
(p) (f) IP Address 104.27.156.130 - 554 other sites hosted on this server IP Location United States Of America - California - San Francisco - Cloudflare Inc. ASN United States Of America AS13335 (registered Jul 14, 2010) Domain Status Registered And No Website Hosting History 1 change on 2 unique name servers over 0 year
http://whois.domaintools.com/telegramcrypto.net
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According to this report, the author of of Monero's white paper and Satoshi himself maybe one and the same person/group. Bitcoin appeared during a financial crisis on October 31, 2008, with the release of a whitepaper authored by the unknown Satoshi Nakamoto. Three years later, December 12, 2012, saw the presentation of the technology behind the cryptocurrency Monero in a whitepaper authored by the unknown Nicolas van Saberhagen. Historical research and textual analysis now indicate Satoshi Nakamoto and Nicolas van Saberhagen may have been the same person or group.
Nakamoto, despite celebrity-level fame, has eluded identification. He, she, or they are largely defined through the document “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” called the Bitcoin Whitepaper (PDF). It describes the multiple parts a cryptocurrency, including the blockchain and the proof-of-work algorithm that secures it without a central authority.
Saberhagen’s CryptoNote whitepaper, “CryptoNote 1.0,” also defined a new cryptocurrency, one focused on privacy and empowerment. It improved on Bitcoin by changing the blockchain structure and using a new proof-of-work, addressing issues that had arisen since Bitcoin’s invention. It also made a number of smaller enhancements to Bitcoin, like simplifying transaction scripts and dynamically adjusting block reward and size. The CryptoNote Whitepaper led to the creation of Monero.
The author of the Bitcoin Whitepaper had clear motive to write the CryptoNote Whitepaper (PDF). In a newsgroup posting on August 13, 2010, Nakamoto first posted the concepts for privacy in cryptocurrency that would later appear in the CryptoNote Whitepaper: the ideas of stealth addresses, which hide receivers in a cryptocurrency transaction, and ring signatures, which hide senders. Also, by the time of the CryptoNote Whitepaper, Nakamoto had witnessed the struggles with Bitcoin’s block size changes (Nakamoto himself stealthfully inserted a 1 MB block size limit into the Bitcoin codebase in 2010) and mining reward halving that the new whitepaper tackled. https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/satoshi-van-saberhagen.htmlI'm not familiar with Saberhagen, but maybe someone here who have been following Monero from the very beginning can shed some light on this.
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I saw one newbie in the Bitcoin Discussion board complaining about the fees. And it looks like the difficulty has dropped significantly, Yesterday, in three separate cases blocks were mined after more than 1 hour of delay.. So this got me thinking, that maybe scammers are going to exploit this one and put up a website to somewhat accelerate the transactions. We all know that during the height in 2017, many services has been offered here, but I high doubt that it is effective, unless you have direct connections to mining services. Anyways, here are some scam websites as far as bitcoin transaction accelerator is concern. Phishing site: http://bitcoin-transaction-accelerator.com/accelerator/ The sample transaction id I put is from the scammers themselves, just look at the bitcoin address, Transactions 921 Total Received 17.63153023 BTC Total Sent 17.62703662 BTC Final Balance 0.00449361 BTC
Lots of people have been falling for this trick, asking for 0.001 BTC. I highly doubt that they really did help you out accelerating your transactions here. Same bitcoin address being used. Second one, they step it up, using viabtc http://viabtc-transaction-accelerator.com/accelerator/ Bitcoin Address: 3NYKHbX3zRbcZeASxjZmb4bpF8kZytnuvi Another one: http://bitcoin-tx-transaction-accelerator.com/ Just a gentle nudge to every one here, don't trust this kind of so called accelerator. You can used https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h to check you clogged the network and see what is the best fee, depending on your needs.
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According to reports by Arcane Research, Holders are buying based on their metrics, Hodler Net Position Change. Pretty obvious though, I mean if you are a long term HODLer, you are waiting for this kind of opportunity to fill in your bags and accumulating. And probably those who have sold-off during the panic has somewhat regret their decision to do so.
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According to Fortune, the BTC logo ranked number 90 greatest designs of modern times. Number (1) is Apple's Iphone and then (2) the Macintosh, (3) is Google, (4) Eames Fiberglass Armchair and then (5) is Sony Walkman TPS-L2. https://fortune.com/longform/100-best-designs/Do you agree that BTC should be in the lower bracket? or should be ranked higher?
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What Happened: Supposedly a complaint form if you have a problem with your atomic wallet in either IOS, Android or Desktop. It will initially tell you that they don't ask for your Private Key, however, it will ask you to "Please Provide Mnemonic Phrase/Recovery Phrase". According to https://support.atomicwallet.io/article/51-i-lost-my-12-word-phrase-what-can-i-doIf someone asks you to provide your 12-word phrase for any reason – never do it! No problem with the wallet requires a 12-word phrase to be shared. Members of our team will never ask for it. Website: PHISHING SITE: https://atomicwallet.ltd/ Archived: http://web.archive.org/save/https://atomicwallet.ltd/Registrant REDACTED FOR PRIVACY Registrant Org WhoisGuard, Inc. Registrant Country pa Registrar NameCheap, Inc. IANA ID: 1068 URL: https://www.namecheap.com/ Whois Server: whois.namecheap.com
(p) Registrar Status clientTransferProhibited Dates 34 days old Created on 2020-02-20 Expires on 2021-02-20 Updated on 2020-02-25 Name Servers NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM (has 599,334 domains) NS2.DIGITALOCEAN.COM (has 599,334 domains) NS3.DIGITALOCEAN.COM (has 599,334 domains) Tech Contact REDACTED FOR PRIVACY REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY (p) (f) IP Address 138.68.62.18 - 1 other site is hosted on this server http://whois.domaintools.com/atomicwallet.ltd
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