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A recent study published in the Wall Street Journal on December 27 found that hundreds of cryptocurrency projects show signs of fraudulent activity and plagiarism.
The American law firm Silver Miller, which specializes in cryptocurrency investments, filed a lawsuit against investor Jeremy Spence, who, according to its representatives, operated a cryptocurrency pyramid and misled investors.
After the presentation of the world's first electronic auction (SETAM) in September last year, Ukraine is preparing to open a decentralized agricultural exchange based on blockchain technology next year, which will also become the first and so far the only platform of this level.
A report from a group of cryptanalysts from Coinmetrics shows that 2 million Bitcoin Private tokens were secretly issued and transferred to the HTCP shielded pool. The Bitcoin Private team not only increased the number of coins stated in the official whitepaper, but was also able to earn good money.
The price decline has not reached target support levels and may continue after a slight recovery.
On December 27, several people on their social networks reported that the wallet was under attack by a hacker, and he had already managed to steal about 250 bitcoins (approximately $937,000). The attack was subsequently confirmed by Electrum. According to its representatives, the hacker created a fake version of the wallet to obtain passwords from real user wallets.
Yesterday, someone transferred 90,000,000 Ripple XRP tokens from one unknown address to another. Typically transfers of this magnitude are made to the wallet of an easily identifiable cryptocurrency exchange, but in this case the sender and recipient addresses are unknown, making the transaction even more suspicious.
The era of monopoly banks is coming to an end, says the executive director of the Swedish bank Klarna. Amid competition from fintech challengers, banks will face massive customer loss and disruption over the next five years.
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