Bitcoin has dropped 80% & 90% several times before and may yet do it again. If you don't think you can handle that, please vacate your coins to those who can! — Saifedean.com (@saifedean) November 13, 2017 When talking about crashes in the cryptocurrency market, we are really talking about crashes in the Bitcoin market. … Read more
What is cryptojacking? Cryptojacking is the illicit mining of cryptocurrency via malware, on someone else’s hardware. Cryptojacking happens when a hacker secretly installs some cryptocurrency mining software like Coinhive, on to your computer or website without your knowledge, giving the hacker free electricity and processing power to mine coins without your knowledge. This can cause … Read more
Today I will be examining Ripple. Ripple is one of the more controversial cryptocurrencies out there right now. It started out as a Paypal style online payment service and pivoted into becoming a digital currency. It’s marketed as the banker’s cryptocurrency and is basically a digital fiat, that is centralized and completely controlled by the … Read more
With so many scams, charlatans, and con artists in cryptocurrency, it often feels daunting for newcomers to the space to differentiate between the legitimate and scam projects. So today I am going to go over some of the warning signs to look out for so you can avoid getting taken advantage of by a thief. … Read more
ICOs have been the most controversial thing to hit the finance world since Bitcoin. Love them or hate them, ICOs are here to stay. They have been the hottest topic in the cryptocurrency, hedge fund, and venture capital worlds, blurring the line between the formalized structure of the traditional startup fundraising process via IPOs and anarcho-capitalist crowdfunding … Read more
If you’ve ever traded cryptocurrencies, you know how fast the market moves, and how any sort of announcement, tweet, press release, or hack can drastically swing the price in the other direction. You’re also probably aware of how fast the cryptocurrency market is growing with 1624 tradeable tokens listed on Coinmarketcap as of this writing. … Read more
Today’s focus will be aimed at cryptocurrency lending platforms. Several high profile cryptocurrency lending platforms like BitConnect and USI Tech have collapsed as nothing more than blatant Ponzi schemes, a scam which basically pays the legacy investors, with the capital of new investors, until the scam becomes unsustainable and collapses. Some of the more popular lending platforms out … Read more
Decentralized exchanges (DEX) for cryptocurrency traders have been called the future of crypto. This is for good reason, as they have several benefits, the most important of which are privacy, security, zero counter-party risk, automated market-making, extremely low fees, and peer to peer exchange of assets. Decentralized exchanges make it impossible to impose regulations, government … Read more
I am going to take a look at coins that pay dividends. Dividends, for the purpose of this article, will refer to coins that pay a portion of revenues/profits to holders of the coin. This is not to be confused with staking or running a master node, which is a way to hold coins in … Read more
So far over 400 infected sites have been discovered to have been infected with Monero (XMR) mining malware. The sites have all been Drupal sites which have not been kept updated to the latest version, that suffer from the Drupalgeddon2 RCE flaws. How can I protect myself? It is strongly urged that you immediately update … Read more