Oddly enough, Apple is known for never using its official Twitter account to market its flagship iPhone or Mac computers. However, the one tweet the account has ever made was directly about Bitcoin to its more than 4.6 million followers. Comparing Apples To Oranges, And a Computer Firm To Crypto Bitcoin was created by the…
Twitter has shared an update about the huge hack on its platform, where many high-profile users had their accounts taken over. In mid-July, the accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Kanye West, and many others were taken over to promote a cryptocurrency scam. Twitter said that the entire system was targeted,…
Twitter has suffered the "biggest security breach in its history", according to one cyber crime expert, but it is just the latest in a years-long campaign by criminals to scam people on the platform through the ruse of bitcoin giveaways. Among those targeted in Wednesday's attack was billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has consistently raised…
Yesterday, high-profile Twitter celebrities and other influential accounts were hacked to promote a Bitcoin scam. The scam isn’t uncommon and is just one of many that involve cryptocurrency in some way. To help investors avoid scams like these, we’re highlighting the most common crypto-related scams and how to avoid them. Bitcoin At Center of High-Profile…
Minutes ago, the Twitter account of Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent out a suspicious message involving Bitcoin. The message read: “I’m feeling generous because of COVID-19. I’ll double any BTC payment sent to my BTC address for the next hour…” Attached was a Segwit Bitcoin address. The message garnered thousands of likes and retweets in…
Crypto assets and blockchains have long had ambiguous use cases.Some say that this industry is good for replacing traditional institutions like governments and financial service providers. Others say that blockchain’s sole purpose is to boost the efficiency of modern corporations that may need to accelerate their supply chains or otherwise.Unfortunately for cryptocurrency bulls, many of…
While trading Chinese yuan through Bitcoin may technically be banned in China, that hasn’t stopped the country’s citizens from talking up a storm about cryptocurrency.This much was made clear on Sunday when Samson Mow, CSO of Blockstream, noted that according to data from Weibo (‘Chinese Twitter’), Bitcoin was a trending topic. This is the third…
Yesterday, it was revealed that an activist hedge fund has intentions to remove Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey. Crypto, interestingly enough, could be negatively affected by this move.Hedge Fund Seeks To Oust Twitter CEO, Jack DorseyWhile Jack Dorsey has made his love for Bitcoin and crypto a big part of his personal brand over the past…
Elon Musk has raised concerns about the "dire problem" of cryptocurrency scams on Twitter. The Tesla CEO has been consistently targeted by scammers in recent years, who use fake accounts to impersonate him and trick people into sending them cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum. Scams typically involve fake accounts holding "giveaways", which require people to send…
On Monday morning, a discussion began to erupt on Crypto Twitter regarding a potential Youtube blackout of industry channels. First, only a few channels were purportedly affected; Canadian Bitcoin educator “BTCSessions” and pro-crypto finance Youtube channel Chris Dunn reported that a number of their videos were taken down due to “harmful and dangerous” content.At first,…