Chia crypto triggers HDD stock rally as Western Digital, Seagate surge
HDD stocks Seagate and Western Digital have both rallied about 20% since last Wednesday's close. And it could be 'cos of Chia.
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Ireland won’t pay Russian hackers $20M Bitcoin ransom
BleepingComputer shared evidence linking Ireland's Bitcoin ransom to Russian hacking crew WizardSpider, which has been around since 2018.
Ethereum pulls crypto traders to furniture stock ETH — it’s been rallying too
Crypto traders have overrun a Yahoo! Finance message board for furniture stock Ethan Allen and hijacked the conversation with hype.
The Weekend Shift: Pie Charts, Cookies, Food Museums
The most interesting reads, podcasts, charts, and opinions from the internet this weekend -- curated for you by the Protos newsroom.
Colonial Pipeline forgets to mention it already paid $5M Bitcoin to hackers
The New York Times confirmed that Colonial Pipeline paid 75 BTC to its ransomware hackers last week, contradicting earlier reports.
Binance under investigation by US agencies over money laundering
The IRS and DoJ are probing Binance employees for information related to money laundering and tax offences, according to reports.
Inside the Great Pie Chart giving Tether its dollar value
Tether released a pie chart alluding to actual cash backing its dollar-pegged stablecoin, but less than 3% of it is money in a bank.
Crypto lost $430M to thieves, hackers, and fraudsters in 2021, report
DeFi rug pulls account for nearly half of all crypto fraud and thefts this year, found analytics unit CipherTrace in its latest crime report.
Microsoft cans blockchain, sad NFT auction, Bitcoin hungry hackers
Listen to the most important stories in Bitcoin and crypto covered by our newsroom in the past week.
Disney sees blockchain replacing watermarks to fight film piracy
Disney won a blockchain patent that audits film playbacks at theatres — a move to combat piracy at the hands of cinema insiders.