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4. College Kids Are Using

artappraiser — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 03:15:59 +0000

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4. College Kids Are Using (Free) Campus Electricity to Mine Crypto

By Michael Kan @ PCMag.com, March 5

College campuses are the second biggest miners of virtual currencies behind the energy and utilities sector, according to security researchers at Cisco.

3. Mystery over missing

artappraiser — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 03:05:59 +0000

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3. Mystery over missing crypto-cash deepens as web wallets opened

@ theaustralian.com, March 6

It’s a mystery made for crypto-world. After the sudden death of the CEO of a cryptocurrency firm, wild conspiracy theories swept the world when it was found he had taken access to the company’s $265m fortune to the grave with him.

Gerald Cotten, 30, the founder of Quadriga CX, Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, was sole gatekeeper to his company’s fortune, sharing the access codes with no one, including his wife. When he died of complications related to Crohn’s disease in December during a trip to India, he left an encrypted laptop and panicked investors.

It took a month for his widow, Jennifer Robertson, to admit (on Facebook) that she didn’t know the password or recovery key to his laptop. In documents submitted to court, she also said that most of Quadriga’s funds had been moved into “cold storage”, an offline wallet kept off the internet, to which Mr Cotten had sole access [....]

2.Coinbase Hacking Team

artappraiser — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 02:58:51 +0000

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2.Coinbase Hacking Team allegedly sold spyware to oppressive regimes

Coinbase says it accidentally hired a group of mercenaries, who sold cyberweapons to Saudi Arabia and Sudan, and is now firing them https://t.co/EaWbOHmWS3
— Mark Milian (@markmilian) March 6, 2019