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Nvidia hackers selling software unlock for graphics card crypto mining limiters
A hacking group that infiltrated Nvidia servers last month is attempting to sell software that could unlock crypto mining hash rate limiters on the firm’s flagship graphics cards. A South American hacking group going by the name LAPSUS$ claims to have stolen a terabyte of data from Nvidia servers in late February. The group is now offering software in the form of a customized driver to unlock limiters the company has put on its high-end graphics cards. Nvidia stated that it became aware of the incident on Feb. 23, and stated, according to reports on Mar. 2: “We are aware that the threat actor took employee credentials and some Nvidia proprietary information from our systems and has begun leaking it online.” The cybercriminal group has been trying to extort the California-based company thro...
Nifty News: Snoop Dogg and Gary V have $95M in NFTs, Dolly Parton’s Dollyverse and more…
According to data from DappRadar, the NFT portfolios belonging to Iconic rapper Snoop Dogg and popular entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuck are worth a combined $95 million. Vaynerchuck’s wallet holds the lion’s share of the value with $81.89 million at the time of writing. His holdings include multiple NFTs from top collections such as CryptoPunks (he owns a whopping 60 in total), the Bored Ape Yacht Club and World of Women. Snoop Dogg’s is an avid NFT collector and his wallet also holds multiple CryptoPunks, Meebits and Fidenza NFTs, with his most expensive NFT CryptoPunk #3831 worth $2.57 million at current prices. The wallets were highlighted as part of a blog post from DappRadar which compiled a list of the top 10 most valuable celebrity NFT portfolios. Other notable figures incl...
South Africa-based crypto exchange VALR completes a $50M Series B funding round
The raise was completed at a $240 million valuation with participation from big names like Pantera Capital The exchange will use the capital to add more products, expand into other markets, and hire more people In what is the largest ever raise by an African crypto firm, crypto exchange VALR, has today announced it completed a $50 million Series B funding round led by Pantera Capital. Several other institutional investors were involved, including Coinbase Ventures, Third Prime, Alameda Research, Distributed Global, and Fidelity Investments’ affiliate Avon Ventures. Following the raise, VALR has a $240 million valuation. VALR launched in June 2019 and has previously concluded a Series A funding round of $3.45 million back in July 2020 at a valuation ten times less than the current. Th...
3 reasons why Waves price gained 100%+ in the last week
Development never stops in the blockchain sector and projects that continuously evolve are the ones that stay at the forefront and survive over the long-term. One project attempting to stay on top of the innovation wave is Waves, a multi-purpose blockchain protocol designed to support a variety of use cases, including decentralized applications and smart contracts. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the price of WAVES has rallied 120% since forming a double bottom at $8.28 on Feb. 22. WAVES/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView Three reasons for the price growth for WAVES are the recent announcement that the protocol will migrate to Waves 2.0, a partnership with Allbridge that will connect Waves with other popular blockchain networks and the upcoming laun...
Rune’s upcoming mainnet launch and Terra (LUNA) integration set off a 74% rally
2021 was a roller coaster of a year for THORChain (RUNE), which saw its price top out at $20.31 only to come crashing down below $4 as a series of hacks and declining interest in decentralized finance had the token limping into 2022. Data suggests that investors could be taking a closer look at Rune and a few potentially bullish factors could include the protocol’s recent integration with the Terra and Cosmos ecosystem, an upcoming mainnet launch and the attractive yields offered to liquidity providers. RUNE/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that after hitting a low of $3.00 on Feb. 24, the price of RUNE has rallied 74.2% to a daily high at $5.23 on March 1 amid a 388% surge in its 24-hour trading volume. Rune integrates ...
Crypto dealer SFOX gets trust charter approval from Wyoming regulators
The State of Wyoming has approved California-based crypto broker SFOX for a trust charter, allowing the firm to provide custodial and other crypto-related services to institutional clients. In a Tuesday announcement, SFOX said the Wyoming trust charter will allow the firm to operate in the state as the SAFE Trust Company, offering services to institutional clients, private clients, and advisers. According to the company, SAFE will “serve in a variety of fiduciary roles” including direct trustee, discretionary trustee, trust advisor, and protector. “The new charter will enable us to provide secure, reliable and efficient investment, trading, and custodian services for a wide range of digital assets, meeting the needs of investors, particularly small-to-mid-sized firms, which until now have ...
Here’s a clever options strategy for cautiously optimistic Bitcoin traders
Bitcoin (BTC) entered an upward channel in early January and despite the sideways trading near $40,000, order book analysts cited “significant buying pressure” and noted that the overall negative sentiment might be heading towards exhaustion. Bitcoin/USD price at FTX. Source: TradingView Independent analyst Johal Miles noted that BTC’s price formed a bullish hammer candlestick on its daily chart on Jan. 24 and Feb. 24, hinting that the longer-term downtrend is close to an end. However, the rally above $41,000 on Feb. 28 was unable to create strong demand from Asia-based traders, as depicted by the lack of a China-based peer-to-peer Tether (USDT) premium versus the the official U.S. dollar currency. Currently, there is positive news coming from the...
Crypto markets have inadequate liquidity to sustain sanctioned Russia, TRM Labs’ executive says
TRM Lab’s Ari Redbord expects Russia to turn to crypto to skirt the economic pressure of sanctions from the West However, the executive believes that crypto markets are not liquid enough to serve Russia’s financial demands In an interview with CNBC today, Ari Redbord, the Head of Legal and Government Affairs at blockchain transparency firm TRM Labs, has suggested that even though Russia may look towards cryptocurrencies to help navigate the wild effects of sanctions from the west, they just won’t cut it. As the US and its allies attempt to close Russia out of the dollar-denominated financial system, the crypto specialist theorised that he expects Russia to ultimately turn to cryptocurrencies. “Look, crypto provides an alternative to traditional financial systems. If...
Crypto markets clear $300M in liquidations, with a Theta trader losing $11M
More than 70,000 traders have been liquidated in the last 24 hours. A single trader’s loss has contributed to nearly 95% of all liquidations on the Theta network. Last Thursday, as Russia announced its “military operation” into Ukraine, Bitcoin and crypto markets dipped massively, with many traders going into panic. Recovery, however, didn’t take long as markets snowballed into the new week, led by Terra (LUNA). After blowing above its consolidation region of about $38,000, Bitcoin has been roaring upwards. It has gained more than 15% in the last 24 hours as it’s now trading $44,263, a spike of more than $10,000 in less than a week. The recent extreme fluctuations have resulted in massive liquidations across the sector Data from cryptocurrency futures trading ...
Hashstack secures $1M seed funding for its under-collateralized DeFi loans project
A few days after launching its Open Protocol testnet, Hashstack Finance has secured $1 million seed funding in a fundraising round that saw the likes of Moonrock, GHAF Capital, Kane & Rao Group, MarketAcross, Chainridge Capital, and Nimrod Lehavi invest in the project. The funds shall be used to develop the Open Protocol and attract top talent to the growing Hashstack Finance community. Kevin Kurian, a general partner at Kane & Rao Group, said: “Getting the maximum value out of your assets is essential in any market. Hashstack offers a solution that the market has not really seen before. We backed Vinay and his team at Hashstack with our capital to bring forward these new ideas.” Open Protocol The Open Protocol aims at allowing crypto users to access under-collateralized DeFi loans...
Why bandwidth needs a layer-1 blockchain, explained
Users will be able to tokenize their bandwidth and sell it in a decentralized trading marketplace to help provide low-cost access to the internet. PKT is the only layer-1 blockchain that is designed to support bandwidth trading marketplaces and high-speed internet service. PKT uses the world’s first bandwidth-hard proof-of-work (PoW) mining solution to create an economic incentive while building a high-speed data network. Forked from Bitcoin (BTC), PKT replaces the SHA-256 PoW standard with the collaborative PacketCrypt mining protocol. Within the PKT Network, users with unused bandwidth earn PKT Cash (PKT) coins by directing their excess bandwidth and compute resources to mining. The act of connecting bandwidth to the PKT Network is called announcement mining. Announce...
Ukraine accepts DOT, founder Gavin Wood donates $5.8 million
Calls from the crypto community for Ukraine to accept other cryptocurrencies have been answered. The official Ukraine Twitter account shared that it will now accept donations from Polkadot (DOT), while other cryptocurrencies will soon be added. The people of Ukraine are grateful for the support and donations from the global crypto community as we protect our freedom. We are now accepting Polkadot donations too: $DOT: 1x8aa2N2Ar9SQweJv9vsuZn3WYDHu7gMQu1RePjZuBe33Hv.More cryptocurrencies to be accepted soon. — Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) March 1, 2022 Gavin Wood, the co-founder of Polkadot had previously shared that if the Ukraine wallets were to add DOT, he would personally contribute $5 million. He made true on his promise, donating 298,367.2269896686 DOT, which is roughly...
