One of Germany’s largest cooperative banks has begun charging its retail customers a negative interest rate. While the European Central Bank cut the deposit rate to a record low, other major banks could follow it up. Deutsche Bank recently said…
France is apparently seeing a surge in cryptocurrency adoption. In late September, over 25,000 points-of-sale of 30 French retailers had been installed. Including sportswear giant Decathlon and cosmetics store Sephora will start accepting BTC payments by early 2020. As earlier…
On Monday, a number of cryptocurrencies gained between 2-5% over the course of the day. Crypto prices have held steady into the next day and many digital assets will likely test key resistance levels in order to press forward. Strong…
On the heels of launching his crypto platform, McAfee Magic, the former antivirus software tycoon John McAfee plans to launch a distributed exchange on Monday, October 7. ‘McAfeedex’ will run on the Ethereum blockchain and McAfee insists the exchange will…
Every year, millions of dollars of cryptocurrency stolen from crypto wallets. Security researchers were surprised to find one active botnet being run for just about $160. The bargain Trojan malware is called MasterMana Botnet. It uses mass mailing to send…
In meeting of the Bank of Japan (BoJ), bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda and others on the nine-member board urged leaving all options on the table. Where further cuts to the country’s negative interest rate are concerned. The talk of further…
Obtaining reliable information about darknet markets (DNMs) is a constant struggle, given the propensity of news sites and forums to come and go. Dead Man’s Switch Dread is dead. The darknet forum where buyers and sellers gathered to exchange links,…
Preserving your online privacy has become almost a lost cause these days. Reading the User Agreement Everyone has multiple online accounts. Most of us are worried about their digital personality being targeted by data collectors and marketing researchers. We are…
Central banks around the world continue to pump more stimulus into the economy as they anticipate the beginning of a new financial crisis. In the context of a sluggish economy, loosening of currencies, negative interest rates and ‘normalisation, the balance…
The Reserve Bank of India has imposed regulatory restrictions on a cooperative bank with 137 branches across India. limiting customer withdrawals to a total of 1,000 rupees (approximately $14) per account for six months. Police personnel had to be deployed…