Author Archives: Bobby (ironhammer5)

CryptoRush: Ex-employee leaks details on hacks and losses

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The big story of yesterday was that CryptoRush were missing millions of Blackcoins. Now, an ex-employee of the exchange has leaked details on a whole host of issues that the exchange has been struggling with. He also included the screenshot to the right, which appears to show that the exchange is short of users funds for several coins. Note: This ...

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Vault of Satoshi adding 8 new coins soon

Vault of Satoshi’s Director of Marketing has taken to Reddit today with an announcement that they’ll be adding eight new coins to their FIAT markets soon. The coins will be added over the next month or so as follows: March 26th: Auroracoin Vertcoin April: Darkcoin Worldcoin Mintcoin Cryptogenic Bullion MaxCoin Soon after:  ReddCoin These coins will also be featured on ...

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GPUcoin official store front now open

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One of the main points of GPUcoin was that there would be an official store front to buy GPUs (graphics processing unit/computer graphics cards) using the coin itself. Now the official store front has been launched on the GPUcoin website, currently offering three different cards from AMD; a Sapphire R7 240 and Toxic R9 280x, as well as a Gigabyte ...

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Moolah looking for additional 250 BTC investment

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Cryptocurrency payment platform Moolah has announced that it’s looking for a second 250 Bitcoin (worth around $140,500 USD at time of writing) investement as it sets to launch its Prelude exchange, complete with FIAT markets. Legal fees for compliance in various countries, as well as liquidity, are stated as reasons for this new round of investments — which is coming ...

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TAKcoin reveals three month plan for coin, halvings coming soon

TAKcoin have released their plans for the coin over the next three months, including halving the coin and launching the recently announced TAKHub social media site. They state that their goals for this period are to differentiate from other altcoins, launch the TAKHub site, and to acquire more high profile Twitter accounts relating to human rights — listed in their ...

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Does Mintcoin need a change to encourage spending?

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A recurring discussion within the Mintcoin community recently has been whether or not the 20 day minting period could be hurting the coin by discouraging spending. The reason this is coming up is that to receive your ‘Proof of Stake’ rewards you are required to hold your coins for 20 days, spending some will reset the timer. Meaning people have ...

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TAKcoin to release TAK Hub social media site, a “cross between Facebook and Reddit

The latest announcement around TAKcoin’s rebranding from TakeiCoin is that the developers will be launching a social media site, TAK Hub. The site will only accept advertisement payments in TAKcoin, as well as for premium account features.  The news was released on Reddit, where the official TAKcoin account called it “a social networking site, much like a cross between facebook ...

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AltCoin releases this week: March 17th 2014

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Each week here on Coin Joint we’ll try our best to bring you a list of the week’s altcoin releases, here’s what’s coming up over the next 7 days. Do any of them take your fancy? Coin Name Day Date Time Green Coin [ZRO] Tuesday March 18th 3:00am GMT Cable Coin [CAB] Wednesday March 19th 4:00pm GMT WOTcoin [WOT] Wednesday ...

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