Circle Invest to reward customers with crypto assets
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Circle Invest to reward customers with crypto assets
Starting today and extending through the end of the year, we’re going to reward new Circle Invest customers with a free crypto asset (it could be a bitcoin!).
This limited reward program is part of our broader mission to break the barriers to investing in crypto. We’ll admit it – crypto can be confusing, complex, and, because of market dynamics, potentially costly. Circle Invest already helps solve the first two barriers: Our app is known for being sleek and simple and chock full of educational content to help consumers invest with confidence. That’s why it has such a high rating (4.7 stars!) in the .
But in a bear market, that often isn’t enough so we’re launching the reward program to encourage more people to join us on this crypto journey. We believe crypto technology will be foundational in changing the way we interact with money.
You, the consumer, can play an essential role in spreading crypto assets and transforming the global economy.
Here’s how it works:
Download Circle Invest ( and )
Make your first investment
Tweet about it
Sit back and wait for your free crypto asset
Each participating customer will get one of the crypto assets available via Circle Invest. They will be rewarded 10 days after the end of November and December.
As always, we would love your feedback on your investing experience or any other content you’d like us to develop. Please reach out to us on or to our . Happy investing!
Cybercrime experts are attributing the most recent bitcoin heist to North Korea. The report that the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange YouBit is the latest victim of a malicious hacking, and that their northern neighbours are to blame. YouBit have been forced to declare themselves bankrupt after 17 percent of their digital assets were stolen. They are allowing customers to immediately withdraw three quarters of the funds in their accounts. The remaining sums will be paid out following the liquidation of the exchange.
The allegations come just one day after the US laid the blame for the WannaCry cryptographic worm attack on North Korea. report that White House National Security Adviser Tom Bossert stated yesterday:
“We do not make this allegation lightly. It is based on evidence. We are not alone with our findings, either. Other governments and private companies agree. The United Kingdom attributes the attack to North Korea, and Microsoft traced the attack to cyber affiliates of the North Korean government.”
The ransomware attack targeted users of the Windows operating system this Spring. It’s estimated to have infected over 300,000 computers across the globe. Computers and their contents were frozen and a demand of bitcoin was then made to those affected.
These examples are not the first time that the communist dictatorship of North Korea have been implicated in such heists. Just this year, three additional attacks have been made against South Korean exchanges that are being blamed on operatives working under Kim Jong Un. The largest of which was on Yapizon, YouBit’s predecessor. They were compromised back in April. This digital heist saw even larger sums of cryptocurrency lifted.
A issued back in September by cyber security firm acknowledged the motive behind North Korea’s interest in digital currency. The fact that cryptocurrencies offer permission-less movement of funds across the planet makes them ideal for the purpose of laundering money and evading sanctions. Hackers can then use coin tumbling services to “clean” funds. Alternatively, they can exchange bitcoin involved in a hack for a much less traceable currency like the anonymity coin Monero. It’s believed that this is what occurred following the WannaCry outbreak.
For a country trying to fight off aggressive international sanctions and continue their militarisation, cryptocurrency seems to present an obvious solution to traditional financial channels being closed off to them. ARS Technica estimate that some $16 billion have been lifted by North Korea to finance their foreign policy objectives. Whilst this is pittance when compared with the over $612 billion market cap of all of cryptocurrency, for a nation that are currently in the midst of economic strangulation, it’s certainly worth going after.
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