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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:…

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…

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the famous Bitcoin millionaires and co-founders of the regulated exchange Gemini.com have announced the release of Gemini Dollar: a crypto token that is strictly pegged to the US dollar. The new ticker will be GUSD. The new "coin" will be fully regulated and audited,…

Bitfinex just announced that their site is under a denial-of-service-attack. This is the day that Litecoin broke out of all possible all time high prices and skyrocketed to over $300: At the same time, the incoming flow of new users to all exchanges is extremely high due to mainstream media…

Tether, a "USD equivalent" cryptocurrency used by many exchanges and issued by tether_to (company very closely related to the Bitfinex exchange) got hacked on November 21st 2017. Supposedly hacked, that is. There was a lot of negative publicity around Tether (USDT) lately, most of it coming from…

Tether, being frequently questioned regarding their transparency and lack of audit, have proudly published a link to something called "Final Tether Consulting report" by Friedman LLP: Friedman LLP has provided an important memorandum on current and historical Tether balances. Always…

Tether, Bitfinex, Ethfinex - basically sister projects by one group - are going to offer tokenized USD dollars on the Ethereum network. This will facilitate better trading of Ethereum-based cryptocurrencies in USD pairs, assuming that the Ethereum Tether token will be tied to the US Dollars. USD…

Bitfinex is the second largest Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency exchange with over $800 million daily trading volume. However, it's a tricky exchange too - we mentioned it in the "top Bitcoin hack" list recently in relation to their August 2016 hack when over 120K Bitcoins went missing. Bitfinex is…

Ever since its' inception, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have been accompanied by hacks and occasional theft. In a way, certain shadiness is bound to be present given the anonymous and highly technical nature of cryptocurrencies. That is definitely not to discourage you from getting in, on the…