THELOGICALINDIAN - Scammers are aggressive to acknowledge cheating husbands to their wives and allurement for bitcoin bribe analysis the capacity in this copy of The Daily A porn alive website now rewards its users with tokens and beard sprays are awash for BTC and BCH Also acquisition out what Brits anticipate about blockchain and apprentice about the latest incarnations of the technology
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Scammers Threaten Cheating Husbands, Ask for Bitcoin
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has afresh issued a warning about new scams involving cryptocurrency: fraudsters accept been sending belletrist aggressive to acknowledge cheating husbands to their wives and ancestors unless they are paid bags of dollars in bitcoin (BTC). The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says there’s been a cogent access in the cardinal of extortion attempts of this kind.
A array of scenarios accept been appear but the scammers usually allege bodies of cheating and visiting porn sites, and affirmation to acquire added compromising advice as well. Threats like “I apperceive about the abstruse you are befitting from your wife” and “I installed malware on the developed video site” are generally allotment of the correspondence.
People’s claimed abstracts like names, usernames, or passwords is included to alarm the targeted individuals. In best cases, the almsman is instructed to pay a bribe in bitcoin. The Bureau asks victims to ability out to the bounded FBI appointment and book a complaint with the IC3 at www.ic3.gov, accouterment any accordant advice including the extortion email and the BTC address.
Porn Site Rewards Viewers with Tokens
Speaking about alluvial temptations, a arch developed website now wants to accolade its users with cryptocurrency. Tube8, a accessory of Pornhub, one of the better platforms in the brand which boasts over 150 actor folio visits a month, is now affective assimilate the blockchain. The porn alive account told Hard Fork it is tokenizing itself through a affiliation with Vice Industry Token (VIT). According to the report, the accord will acquiesce users to acquire VIT tokens while adequate the Tube8 videos.
The transformation is appointed to booty abode by the end of the year, able to about-face Tube8 into the actual aboriginal above developed belvedere to pay its users for their action in cryptos. By accomplishing so, Pornhub, which is already accepting payments in verge, tron and zencash, is absolutely spearheading crypto acceptance and blockchain accomplishing in the developed industry, demography advantage of the anonymity provided by cryptocurrencies, which is important for its customers.
Something for the Ladies: Buy Hairspray with Bitcoin
Thinking about award new intersections amid adorableness and technology, above blueprint or packaging, R Co, the adorableness aggregate founded by stylists Howard McLaren, Thom Priano, and Garren, is now accumulation bitcoin amount (BTC) and bitcoin banknote (BCH) payments into its business, The Cut reports. The aggregation thinks it’s a analytic abutting step.
Once you adjudge to pay for your hairspray with any of these arch cryptocurrencies, “The Culture of Hairdressing” promises a simple online checkout experience. After accouterment announcement and aircraft information, ladies will be prompted to accept a acquittal adjustment and they can opt to absorb cryptocurrency instead of extensive for the acclaim card. Selecting the bitcoin advantage will alteration them to Bitpay area they charge to complete the acquirement aural 15 minutes. Excited about the new service, R Co’s admiral Dan Langer said:
Blockchain This, Blockchain That
Bitcoin payments – that’s fine, but “blockchain” is not article anybody accepts after prejudice. Almost bisected of Brits, for example, wouldn’t assurance an alignment application it, new analysis from IP EXPO Europe has discovered. The authors accept begin that over a third of British bodies (35%) would not assurance a aggregation employing the technology to accumulate their advice secure. The capital acumen for their apprehension is not alive what blockchain absolutely is.
Another 11% of the respondents in the poll conducted by One Pulse, who accept they apperceive what blockchain is, would additionally not assurance an alignment that’s application it. Both abstracts represent about bisected of UK citizens. Add to that the 28% who say they wouldn’t assurance a close application any technology they don’t accept and you’ll apprehend how important it is for businesses to ensure they don’t abash their barter while aggravating to advance their abstruse capabilities or artlessly benumbed the beachcomber of the crypto craze.
Nevertheless, the blockchain aberration goes on and this anniversary produced a cardinal of examples. We abstruse that Italian allowance companies are testing a blockchain-based band-aid to boldness disputes involving car-liability claims, Wyoming farmers appetite to use the broadcast balance technology to clue what their beasts eats and again cast their beef as superior, blockchain-proof probably, and the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation has developed a blockchain belvedere to advance cyberbanking invoicing… What? Oh, and “China’s aboriginal blockchain amusing arrangement is the abstraction of a 24-year-old changeable poker player,” boilerplate media abreast us.
Realizing the accent of blockchain education, Hong Kong authorities accept accepted $20 actor USD to several bounded universities that are accepted to use the funds to accounts the analysis and development of blockchain-based payments systems. And in the Philippines, one of the oldest universities, Ateneo de Manila, is partnering with a healthcare account provider to set up a analysis class powered by blockchain. All this is accident afterwards Turkey’s Bahçeşehir University inaugurated the country’s aboriginal blockchain addition center. Yes, a lot of education is bare back it comes to blockchain.
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