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Bitcoin (BTC) Inevitable Cool off, Billionaire Dismissive

Bitcoin (btc) inevitable cool off, billionaire dismissive

Bitcoin (BTC) Inevitable Cool off, Billionaire Dismissive

Bitcoin (btc) inevitable cool off, billionaire dismissive
  • bitcoin (BTC) retests significant resistance
  • Warren Buffet bashes bitcoin for the second time

After describing Bitcoin as Rat Poison Squared, Warren Buffet now says the asset is a gambling device. Even so, Bitcoin is retesting Q2 2018 lows and immediate resistance at $6,000, adding 6.3 percent in the last week.

bitcoin Price Analysis

Fundamentals

The Oracle of Omaha is back. Warren Buffet may be one of the wealthiest people in the world but he, like most billionaires including Bill Clinton, is dismissive of Bitcoin. Although Bitcoin is one of the million applications that can operate from Blockchain, Warren says Bitcoin is a “gambling device” that “hasn’t produced anything” and laden with controversies. While talking to CNBC, here is what the admired multi-billionaire said:

“It’s a gambling device… there have been many frauds connected with it. There have been disappearances, so there’s a lot lost on it. Bitcoin hasn’t produced anything. It doesn’t do anything. It just sits there. It’s like a seashell or something, and that is not an investment to me.”

Bizarrely, he compares Bitcoin with buttons adding that “Bitcoin sits there” and he’ll

“I’ll tear it here. What I’ll have here is a little token…I’ll offer it to you for $1000, and I’ll see if I can get the price up to $2000 by the end of the day… However, the button has one use, and its minimal use.”

Even so, Bitcoin is a proven conduit that has made international fund transfer cheap and near instantaneous. The world’s liquid asset is also evolving into a store of value, a trusted asset that is global with no FX charges.

Candlestick Arrangement

At spot rates, Bitcoin is a top performer adding 6.3 percent in the top 10 and only trailing Cosmos in the top-15. Despite what Warren thinks of Bitcoin (BTC), the asset is a utility, and increasing support from governments means the resulting demand would push prices to a new high above $6,000 towards $8,500.

It’s easy to see why—candlestick arrangement thus far support bulls as prices trend above a multi-month resistance trend line visible in the weekly chart. Although we need BTC bulls to conclusively drive prices above $6,000 invalidating bears of Q4 2018, BTC is under immense bear pressure.

From a top-down approach, Nov 2018 bears anchor our trade plan with effort versus result analysis pointing to bears. Therefore, for traders who miss today’s leg, they can as well stay on the sidelines until prices edge past $6,000.

Technical Indicators

For a clearer picture, Nov 2018 bear bar anchors our trade plan. Bulls have a chance, but for trend continuation and confirmation of April surges, BTC must close above $6,000 with high volumes exceeding 954k.

Chart courtesy of Trading View

 

 

Published at Sat, 04 May 2019 23:11:31 +0000

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Alphabay Phisher Makes $1 Million in 14 Months Stealing Bitcoins

A deep web hacker operating under the pseudonym of ‘Phishkingz’ has recently claimed to have generated over $1 million from phishing Alphabay accounts during the last 14 months. In a recent interview with Deepdotweb, Phishkingz details the methods that he uses when stealing bitcoins.

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Phishkingz Claims to Have Sold 500 Stolen Bitcoins in the Last 14 Months

Alphabay Phisher Makes $1 Million in 14 Months Stealing Bitcoins

Darknet phisher, Phishkingz, recently discussed methods that he claims allowed him to generate over $1 million in 12 months by stealing bitcoins. Phishkingz claims to have traded approximately 500 bitcoin on Localbitcoins in the last 14 months, the entirety of which was generated through phishing.

Phishkingz states that he is also a dark market vendor. His decision to start phishing to steal bitcoins was made following the discovery of an error on Alphabay’s forums “that allowed [Phishkingz] to see new members the second they joined.” The hacker would then directly contact new members, “send[ing[ them to my link with a verification process.” From them, Phishkingz is “able to obtain the login details syncing, and the mnemonic phrases, as well as any PGP private key and password and pin code.”

The hacker would then “save a bookmark using blockchain.info… [and] highlight 50 [addresses] at a time every 20 minutes checking for deposits”. The majority of the withdrawals would be processed manually, despite early experimentation with bots. Phishkingz claims that his operations expanded to a scale that required the assistance of employees, stating that at one point he “had 27 people working… running phishers” that were stealing bitcoins for him.

The Admins Didn’t Really Care About Their Customers

Alphabay Phisher Makes $1 Million in 14 Months Stealing Bitcoins

Phishkingz describes Alphabay’s moderators as providing little support to his victims. “The admins didn’t really care about their customers, and it only took opening a support ticket with a problem to learn this. BM (Big Muscles – an Alphabay moderator) especially is a stupid one. He would let me into accounts for 50% if I provided mnemonic phrase knowing I had phished the account in the first place.”

Following the recent removal of Alphabay, the bitcoin hacker claims to “have moved to Dream Market and already made 4 BTC since yesterday launching the new site.”

The number of phishers attempting to hack bitcoins outside of the deep web has also recently proliferated. The record breaking Tezos ICO has attracted the attention of phishers, seeing clone sites being hosted for the purposes of stealing bitcoins. Other creative hackers have recently started setting up websites for fake ICOs, infecting victims’ computers through downloading malicious software disguised as project whitepapers. With bitcoin and altcoins seeing unprecedented media exposure, a growing presence of bitcoin hackers and scammers operating in all corners of the internet appears to be an unfortunate and inevitable consequence of greater cryptocurrency adoption.

Have you ever fallen victim to a phishing scam? Share your story in the comments section below!


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