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2019: A Happy - and New - Year for crypto-conmen and thieves so far

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The bubbly is unmistakably all around as experts and security -industry players take stock of new crypto-threats and malware attacks gaining steam and ground. Count the bottles of champagne popped and you would know. Get up and brush the dust away from last year’s attacks. If 2018 was abuzz with cryptocurrency wallets, Salty Spider malware trapping cryptocurrency users (specially Electrum BTC Wallets), BTC ransomware payment demands and crypto-jacking, 2019 is showing starker and stronger intersections between the orbits of cyber threats and cryptocurrency.  As always, the devil lurks in the fine print. But let us skim through the bigger fonts first. They will jump us through the hoops faster. Strap yourself for words like m ... Read more about " 2019: A Happy - and New - Year for crypto-conmen and thieves so far " on coinatory.com

Monero: something strange is going on

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CEO of Lunar Digital Assets, Han Yoon wrote an article, warning that Monero network possibly showing signs of an imminent attack. The main point is the strange increase in hashpower. Starting from January 1st, 2019 it"s constantly growing - from 322,7Mh/s up to 781 Mh/s (February 5th). It"s an enormous growth and, in fact, the hashpower was never that high since the April 5th, 2018 - the day when Cryptonight V8 algorithm was implemented during the Lithium Luna update. You can check the actual hashpower here. The whole situation doesn"t seem to be strange and dangerous now. But considering the fact that Monero is an ASIC-resistant coin, there"s less space for the explanation of such a strange behavior. Another fact - Monero ... Read more about " Monero: something strange is going on " on coinatory.com