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Finance

Crypto Traders Apparently Spam Truth Terminal Into Pumping Coin Associated With Brian Armstrong’s Dog

The traders appeared to have made a quick profit, selling quickly after the price jump.

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Finance

Zcash May Be Getting Spammed but the Blockchain Is Doing Just Fine, the Company Behind It Says

Electric Coin Co., the organization behind Zcash, claims that concerns of a spam attack are mostly just fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).

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Tech

Nano’s Network Flooded With Spam, Nodes Out of Sync

Developers encouraged node operators to throttle their bandwidth in response. They had to make it worse before it could get better.

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Finance

Crypto Lending Platform BlockFi Attacked With Flood of Fake, Abusive Sign-Ups

The malicious spree involved offensive language being placed in the first and last name fields on the account registration page.

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Finance

Stellar Tried to Give Away 2B XLM Tokens on Keybase. Then the Spammers Came

What was advertised to be a $120 million giveaway will now be much less. Here's why.

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Markets

Salesforce Wins Patent Tackling Email Spam With Blockchain

Salesforce has won a patent outlining how a blockchain-based platform can be used to prevent spam or other unwanted emails from hitting inboxes.

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Markets

Ethereum Spam Attacks Are Back – This Time on the Test Network

Following DoS attacks on the ethereum network last year, an attacker has picked an easier target to spam: Ropsten, the ethereum testing network.

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Markets

New Email Service Tackles Spam With Bitcoin Micropayments

Email-forwarding service Composed aims to help the global fight against spam by making senders pay a small fee in bitcoin.

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Markets

Why New Forms of Spam Could Bloat Bitcoin's Block Chain

The block chain has potential uses beyond storing transactions, but could they pose a risk to bitcoin?

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