Bitcoin 27/11/20 19:34 by Bernice Nyambura

1% Of Bitcoin’s Total Supply Has Just Been Seized By The Chinese Police

Chinese police have seized 194,774 Bitcoin (1% of Bitcoin’s total supply of 21 million BTC) worth over $3.2 Billion, in the latest operation against the infamous PlusToken scheme that defrauded inv...
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Altcoins 01/08/20 06:00 by Nick Chong

Crypto Tidbits: Bitcoin Explodes Past $11k, Ethereum 2.0 Nears, Cardano’s Shelley Launches

Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. It’s been an explosive week for the Bitcoin and crypto market, to say the very least. Bitcoin surged from under $10,000 to as high as $11,500 this...
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Bitcoin 31/07/20 12:00 by Nick Chong

Unexpected Factor That Suppressed Bitcoin Bulls in 2019 Is Now Gone

If you’ve been involved in the Bitcoin market over the past year, you know of PlusToken. PlusToken was a Ponzi scheme with a focus on the Asian cryptocurrency space that was active in 2019. In o...
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Bitcoin 25/07/20 21:54 by Olivia Brooke

Whale Bot Identifies $5 Million Bitcoin Transfer From Hackers Who Attacked Bitfinex In 2016

Protecting one’s privacy with Bitcoin doesn’t come easy. The Bitcoin Blockchain permanently records and displays all transactions publicly, this makes it possible for almost anyone to tra...
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Bitcoin 25/07/20 05:00 by Nick Chong

$5 Million Worth of Bitcoin From Bitfinex’s 2016 Hack Just Moved

While the winnings of a bank heist can be hard to track, it’s a different story for Bitcoin and crypto hacks. Unless hackers use mixing and privacy technologies, the coins they steal from exchan...
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Altcoins 30/06/20 17:00 by Ali Martinez

Ethereum’s Booming Usage Could Spark ETH Drop: Here’s Why

Ethereum has undergone a consolidation period for over the past month. Since the beginning of June, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap has mostly traded between the $217 support and the $...
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Bitcoin 30/06/20 12:00 by Nick Chong

Despite Brutal Rejection at $10.5k, Bitcoin Uptrend Has “Strength”: Analyst

At the start of June, Bitcoin suddenly surged towards and past $10,000. The cryptocurrency rallied so far and so fast that $123 million worth of short positions on BitMEX were liquidated within an hou...
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Bitcoin 29/06/20 00:00 by Nick Chong

The Signal That Marked Bitcoin’s 2019 and 2020 Highs Has Yet to Flash

There are many analysts saying that Bitcoin looks like it’s at a medium-term high. As reported by NewsBTC previously, a trader said that the cryptocurrency is trading in a textbook “distri...
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Altcoins 26/06/20 03:00 by Cole Petersen

XRP May Soon Face a 485M Sell Wall Due to This One Nefarious Group

It’s no secret that XRP has been struggling to garner any momentum over the past few years, with its downtrend not being able to reverse despite many of its peers posting intense rallies throughout ...
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Altcoins 25/06/20 23:00 by Cole Petersen

Will PlusToken Moving $458M Worth of Crypto Spark a Bitcoin Retreat?

Bitcoin and the aggregated crypto market have flashed some signs of weakness over the past 24-hours, with the benchmark digital asset reeling down to the lower boundary of its long-held trading range ...
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Altcoins 25/06/20 16:25 by Adrian Klent

PlusToken’s Crippling Effect On Bitcoin and the Billion-Dollar Impact on Crypto Markets

Travis Kling, a crypto asset firm manager has drawn the public’s attention to a questionable cryptocurrency transaction that involves leading cryptocurrency exchanges Huobi and Okex and more in...
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Altcoins 23/06/20 00:59 by Jeff Fawkes

PlusToken Scam Moves $67 Million In EOS, Fears Of A Possible Dump Erupt

According to data from the EOS blockchain, a wallet that held over 26 million EOS tokens (worth $67 million) has moved the coins to an unknown wallet. In July 2019, this project was accused of being ...
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Altcoins 17/05/20 14:07 by Jeff Fawkes

Chinese Police Uncover PlusToken-like Scam Scheme That Stole 46,000 Bitcoin From Victims

Per the detailed court ruling which is already firing up the Chinese media, WoToken can be considered one of the biggest scams in the history of cryptocurrency. The police investigators uncovered mor...
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Crypto 16/05/20 20:30 by Cole Petersen

Report Claims That Another “Mega-Sized” Chinese Crypto Ponzi Scheme has Emerged

In 2019 the world was captivated by news of a Chinese-based crypto Ponzi scheme called PlusToken. The ringleaders of this scheme defrauded unsuspecting investors out of billions of dollars’ worth of...
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Bitcoin 08/03/20 19:25 by Brenda Ngari

Three Simple Reasons Why Bitcoin Feels Bearish Sub-$9,000

The crypto market saw impressive gains in February. After soaring for weeks whilst the stock markets succumbed to intense selling pressure, cryptocurrencies finally joined in on the proverbial bleedi...
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Altcoins 17/12/19 06:07 by Anatol Antonovici

Bitcoin Price Dropped Below $7,000 Likely on PlusToken Dumpers

Bitcoin price broke down below the psychological level of $7,000 late on Monday. The cryptocurrency updated the December low after blockchain researcher Chainalysis said that PlusToken scammers were s...
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Bitcoin 17/12/19 00:00 by Cole Petersen

Here’s What Burst Bitcoin’s $14,000 Yearly Top and May Lead it Even Lower

Bitcoin has faced turbulence throughout 2019, with the first half of the year being firmly controlled by bulls that sent it as high as $13,800, while the second half of the year played to the favor of...
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Altcoins 16/12/19 23:00 by Rick D.

Two Reasons Why Ethereum Crashed 10% in a Matter of Minutes

The second most popular digital asset by market capitalisation led a crypto industry wide plunge in prices today. Ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency on the Ethereum network, fell by around 10 perc...
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Altcoins 14/12/19 13:00 by Nick Chong

Could Bitcoin Price Press Higher as PlusToken Liquidations Slow?

Over the past few months, the crypto industry has been awash with news about the PlusToken Bitcoin scam, which allowed scammers to accrue billions worth of digital assets over the course of a year-lon...
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Altcoins 11/12/19 15:39 by Anatol Antonovici

CoinMetrics Data: The True Extent of PlusToken BTC Dumping on Huobi

In the last few months, media reported on several occasions that Singapore-based crypto exchange, Huobi, had processed a huge amount of PlusToken withdrawals. Crypto market data firm, Coin Metrics, ha...
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Altcoins 29/11/19 03:50 by Kai Sedgwick

Is Plustoken to Blame for Bitcoin’s Sell-Off?

Armchair theorists love postulating the reasons behind bitcoin’s latest price rise or sell-off. From China FUD to exchange hacks, anything and everything is fair game for blame. Plustoken is the...
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Altcoins 27/11/19 13:24 by Christine Vasileva

Is PlusToken Behind Bitcoin Bull and Bear Price Actions this Year?

The bitcoin price rally in the summer of 2019 may have been the work of PlusToken investors. The scam, highly influential in China, but largely invisible to Western traders and social media, benefited...
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Altcoins 21/11/19 20:00 by Tony Spilotro

Could PlusToken Scam Be Responsible for Broken Crypto Market Structure?

Ever since Bitcoin’s bottom at $3,100, the crypto market has been convinced that the first-ever crypto asset was building a foundation for its next bull run. But a powerful parabolic rally this year...
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