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Even though there were reports of Cryptoexmart dot com being a scam months ago, the website is still there. It's registered by and hosted by PublicDomainRegistry.com and hosted by Qservers.net, which means those are pretty abuse-resistant (or no one filed any complaints). Let's review the…

The Block, a no-BS crypto news outlet that has exposed the banking details for Bitfinex and Tether last week, has been attacked by someone, with their email spammed and Twitter profiles suspended. There have been reports of email spam campaigns:…

eToro, an investment and trading platform, has been trying hard to get new users among Bitcoiners lately. They've released an ad for Bitcoin that uses the "hodl" meme as well as a Game of Thrones reference - and for some reason Reddit went crazy about it: To score even more PR among…

Tether (USDT) has been in the center of attention lately - with the price of this coin supposedly pegged to USD sliding there have been fears that now is actually the time Tether crashes and all Tether-based exchanges will become insolvent. This has not happened yet though news of various degree…

The financial world has seen its fair share of frenzies over the years, but none as influential as the introduction of cryptocurrencies. In this article we're going to be taking a look at what digital currencies are and what we can expect to see from them in the future, after they become globally…

"We don't need your banks; now, we don't need your internet." @notsofast

Looks like a long-time Bitcoin sceptic Nouriel Roubini might soon debate with Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin: https://twitter.com/Nouriel/status/1050939934352248832 Moderated, possibly by Kevin Pham: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1051104238695272449 ...sponsored by Bitmex:…

This new scam is using vanity of crypto bloggers to promote itself. In short - it's a fake ICO, has nothing to do with WalMart, the domains are freshly registered and you should stay away from such scams. On October 9-10 2018 many cryptocurrency blogs and news sites (including CoinVigilance) got…

Bitpay, a US based crypto debit card provider, has announced that its' European customers that use prepaid Bitcoin cards have until October 31st to withdraw their balances and download their transactions. If you are looking for a Bitpay alternative for Europe - Wirex is your #1 option. It's a…

We've come across rebiddy - an aspiring start-up that should bring cashbacks into crypto shopping. The team is not running an ICO or releasing tokens, they focus on development of their product. We've talked to Ivan Golovko, co-founder and CMO of rebiddy (Twitter, LinkedIn) and Nikita Fomichev,…

Last week MinexPay distributed news about their partnership with ČSOB bank: https://medium.com/minecoin-blog/čsob-bank-partnership-the-roadmap-and-cards-shipping-update-8cc5a7372822 Turns out the bank itself is not aware of the partnership. This is the tweet the ČSOB bank reps have just…

Today I've had several unknown people contact me on Telegram and ask for help in withdrawing their Bitcoins from an exchange. This sounds way too suspicious to even consider to be legit, - these are all scammers or even chat bots serving scammers. I decided to talk to one of them, to see how…