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Bitcoin Daily: FCoin Shuts After $130M Shortfall; Scam Threatens Via Google Ads

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Zhang said the problem was, essentially, that internal system errors had made it so users ended up with more transaction-based rewards than they should’ve had. The model consisted of FCoin launching 51 percent of a coin to the public in exchange for making transactions, rather than doing an initial offering or an airdrop.

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Return Season Hits Hard; Some Retailers See Bright Side Of Customer Experience

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With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. If you do it right, people will actually spend two or three times more in that one transaction,” Vitarello said. “So

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The Great Twitter Hack And Power Of Social Engineering

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Apart from celebrities, Apple and Uber were also tagged in the hacking event that occurred Wednesday (July 15). Because successful attacks often rely on a distracted and easily frightened user, he noted, they tend to spike in times of crisis. “[In A CBS News report put the figure at more than $118,000.

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#181 – Treasury Review of 2021

Strategic Treasurer

We thought it’s a short term, very short-term spike, but we see that continuing, so transitory is, I think, came into our vocabulary. And if you’ve listened to the podcast, you’ve heard me say this before, when people say we plan to use this tag or these types of services at this rate in the next year in the next two years.

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Transcript: Dave Nadig

Barry Ritholtz

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. You know, going back to the ‘20s, actually going back to the 1400s, we have rules about how we engage in these transactions and the rule of law is a big deal. Why don’t you speak to him? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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