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Bitcoin Daily: Hackers Contribute Crypto To Charities; Bitcoin Crests $12K

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A hacking organization released receipts for $10,000 in charitable contributions to two groups made through bitcoin, the BBC reported. The hackers published the contribution in addition to tax receipts for 0.88 in bitcoin ( valued at approximately $10,515 as of 7:04 P.M. The price of bitcoin was $11,954.07

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Bitcoin Daily: Brazil Debuts Blockchain Solution For Gov’t Bids; BitFunder CEO Gets 14 Months For Crypto Fraud

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Design and Cayenne Technology reportedly created the Online Bid Solution (SOL), which is said to be a technology based on the blockchain. And the operator of BitFunder, a defunct trading platform that was denominated in bitcoin, and WeExchange was sentenced for obstruction of justice as well as securities fraud, CoinDesk reported.

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Bitcoin Daily: Tether’s Parent Co. Hit With $1T Lawsuit; Nearly $10B In Bitcoin Held In Crypto Exchanges

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Plaintiffs say that the actions of iFinex was “part fraud, part pump-and-dump and part money-laundering.”. In other news, $10 billion worth of bitcoin — or almost 7 percent — is currently held in the wallets of eight major cryptocurrency exchanges. Coin Telegraph reported that Token Analyst found that almost 1.2

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The Beginning Of The End For Bitcoin?

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Bitcoin has been riding a bit of a rollercoaster in the past few weeks since hitting an all-time high of more than $4,800 per digital coin on Aug. To continue the rollercoaster analogy, the cryptocurrency’s value has been on a steep climb all year, and it stands to reason that bitcoin’s skyrocketing value must eventually slow and reverse.

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Bitcoin Daily: Russian Government Bans Officials From Holding Crypto; BuyUCoin Hack Leaks Private Data Of 325,000 Users

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The data leaked included names, email addresses, phone numbers, bank account details and tax ID numbers, the report stated. Bitcoin is highly volatile as its rally over the past year from $4,000 to more than $40,000 and then back towards $30,000 shows,” Bank of Singapore’s Mansoor Mohi-uddin told The National.

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Bitcoin Daily: Seagate Data Storage Firm Uses Blockchain To Fight Fraud; Brazil Citizens Must Report Crypto Transactions To RFB

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Data storage firm Seagate revealed that it has moved its anti-fraud blockchain project with IBM into the pilot stage. The technology could also be used to verify that any returned drives have undergone a “certified erase” process to remove any user data.

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Will The IRS Take A Bite Out Of Crypto’s Wild Ride?

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April is months away, but tax season is likely top of mind for crypto holders. To that end, in the United States, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has said that huddling with other tax authorities across the globe has helped train a spotlight on how to detect and thwart tax evasion efforts.

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