Alexander Vinnik, Administrator of BTC-E has been arrested by Greek police for laundering four billion dollars using Bitcoin. Vinnik is a Russian national and was running very popular crypto currency exchange, BTC-e. The arrest warrant was issued by US Ministry of Justice and according to various reports, USA is looking to extradite Vinnik. The site in question has tweeted in Russian that it will remain offline for coming 5-10 days.
People Coin is an interesting ICO. It is about an experiment that models the population growth of the planet. At first, there are around 7.5 billion people and their DNA which represents a block, are to be generated by making use of gene engineering. After that, there will be an annual increase in population by 2.5 percent.
Torguard is an anonymous VPN service which lets you project your privacy online with VPN and proxy service. The site is now offering 10 percent to all users that checkout using litecoin. Litecoin has been getting excellent publicity with its low transaction fees and faster transaction time.
Crypto mining is now no longer profitable. Back when the price of Zcash and Ethereum price increased, a lot of people went on a shopping spree to hoard as many Nvidia and Zcash graphics cards as they could. This all started back in month of June and the demand went through the roof – so much that there was an acute GPU shortage worldwide.
Mike Cagney, SoFi’s CEO backed Ethereum over bitcoin as it offers better infrastructure applications. He said that if the dollar did not exist then bitcoin would have been fine but since the value of bitcoin fluctuates so much, it makes it nearly impossible to be used as a currency. While bitcoin is the original blockchain and has the maximum share of attention, it is not a very practical one, Mike added.
Dash app for iPhone has been approved by Apple and has become available on the App Store. Back in August 2016, it was denied entry to the App Store but after a repeated appeal in June 2017, many people including CEO of Dash had his fingers crossed.
Waves Lite has a new addition – Ethereum gateway which means you can now use waves to hold and trade your ether. You can also send ETH to anyone.
Coindash is a startup that focuses on the crypto currency social trading and it has just announced on twitter that their website has been hacked. It has also sent out warning to its investors that there has been a massive cyber security breach.
