Bitcoin crosses $60,000 mark for first time
Business | Mar 14, 2021, 03:54 PM ISTWith a sign of acceptance among the mainstream investors, the world's largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin surpassed a record high of $60,000 on Sunday.
With a sign of acceptance among the mainstream investors, the world's largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin surpassed a record high of $60,000 on Sunday.
Banned Bangladeshi militant outfits, Ansar Al Islam (AI) and Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), have sent a huge amount of money to another extremist group in Kashmir in the form of cryptocurrency, a senior police official said.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has been tweeting on cryptocurrencies with greater frequency for some time now, has said that prices of Bitcoin now "seem high".
With a sign of acceptance among the mainstream investors, the world's largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin surpassed a record high of $50,000 on Tuesday.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and rap artist Jay-Z will invest 500 bitcoins (approximately Rs 174 crore) in an endowment to fund Bitcoin development with a focus on India and Africa in the beginning, Dorsey said on Friday.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk's electric vehicle company Tesla has invested $1.5 billion in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, according to its annual 10-K report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday.
The hacker's handiwork includes four hacked websites and three malware exploited.
Bitcoin, the world's most popular cryptocurrency, has surged past the USD 26,000 level to set an all-time record high, according to trading data. On Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, Bitcoin was trading at USD 26,286.74, as of 20:45 GMT on Saturday.
The kidnappers of a 8-year-old boy, who was abducted from Ujire area of Dakshina Kannada, allegedly demand ransom in Bitcoin.
The price of bitcoin rose above $20,000 for the first time Wednesday, as the speculative digital currency topped its previous peak reached shortly after it became tradable on Wall Street three years ago this month.
The Delhi Police crime branch has arrested 54 people from an illegal call center in a case involving fraud with foreign nationals.
Bitcoin prices are rising again for the past three months and it has now surpassed $18,000 (approximately Rs 13.3 lakh) per unit price zone for the first time since 2017.
Computer scientists in the US have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that may be able to identify malicious codes that hijack supercomputers to mine for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
One Indian businessman lost a whopping Rs 28 crore in such crypto wallet scam, Shah informed.
The fake posts appeared to lure Twitter users by sending money to an anonymous Bitcoin account. There is no confirmation on if the owners of these Twitter accounts were targeted themselves. The apparently fake tweets were all quickly deleted, although The Associated Press was able to capture screenshots of several before they disappeared.
Why are the hackers looking for Bitcoins, which is a type of a cryptocurrency? Here's everything you need to know about cryptocurrencies.
Twitter Hacked: After high-profile Twitter accounts of personalities like Kim Kardashian, Barack Obama, Kanye West, and others got hacked in Bitcoin scam, CEO Jack Dorsey said, 'We all feel terrible this happened.'
Two executives in Kolkata who were working from home and using the Zoom video calling app, allegedly received ransomware threats, demanding payments in bitcoins on Wednesday. The hackers demanded ransom to release the data which were encrypted from their computers. Both of them were using Zoom.
The attackers tortured Abdul Shakoor till he fell unconscious and left the body at the emergency ward of a private hospital here on Thursday night before fleeing. They were arrested on Friday, the officer said.
There's bad news for people who deal in cryptocurrencies in India. Buying and selling cryptocurrencies in India may soon be illegal as a government committee has made that recommendation.
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