Earlier this year, Twitter announced that they would start taking steps to reduce the number of bots on their platform, specifically those that were peddling cryptocurrency scams to unsuspecting users. While the issue of bots on social media seems insurmountable in many ways, a new report from The Verge reveals that…
The wild world of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Steven Seagal’s Bitcoiin often seems silly, stupid, and scammy, but we think we’ve finally found a digital money scheme that seems totally legitimate. It’s called “Akoin,” and it comes from musician Akon. As reported by Page Six, Akon is planning to use the money he…
At the beginning of his extended main story about the financial “Wild West” that is the burgeoning, huckster-crawling landscape of cryptocurrency on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver showed a clip of a guy in a blinking Bitcoin suit explaining what this new economic paradigm actually is. And, while Oliver…
Here’s some bad news for people who were really looking forward to throwing a bunch of money away: the Bitcoin knockoff endorsed by Steven Seagal has received a cease-and-desist order from New Jersey’s Bureau Of Securities for “fraudulently offering unregistered securities in violation of the Securities Law.” Seagal’s…
At this point, it would almost be faster for us to compile a list of celebrities who aren’t releasing their own cryptocurrency, then get savvy readers to start using that list as a means to buy internet goods and services. The dollar is an illusion, baby! Put all your savings into NewswireCoin! But in the meantime,…
Navigating cryptocurrency can be intimidating for the average person, requiring a familiarity with enigmatic terminology like “blockchain” and “mempool,” a willingness to ride out the volatility of the market, and a whole lot of faith. Alternately, you could just trust Steven Seagal.
It’s the new “pivot to video,” apparently; Reuters is reporting that the 129-year-old Eastman Kodak company is tossing itself into the cryptocurrency game, following in the footsteps of such financial luminaries as Long Blockchain Corp (formerly Long Island Iced Tea), Riot Blockchain (previously a biotech firm), and,…
