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Monero is a common medium of exchange on darknet markets. [6] In August 2016, dark market AlphaBay permitted its vendors to start accepting Monero as an alternative to bitcoin. [ 6 ] The site was taken offline by law enforcement in 2017, [ 27 ] but it was relaunched in 2021 with Monero as the sole permitted currency. [ 28 ]
ShapeShift AG was founded July 1, 2014 in Switzerland by Erik Voorhees.Voorhees cited the collapse of the Mt. Gox exchange as the motive for creation of Shapeshift. [2]In March 2015, ShapeShift received a US$525,000 seed-stage investment by Roger Ver and Barry Silbert.
CryptoNote is an application layer protocol designed for use with cryptocurrencies that aims to solve specific problems identified in Bitcoin. [1] [2]The protocol powers several decentralized privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies, including Monero, [3] Zano, [4] MobileCoin and Safex Cash.
A cryptocurrency exchange, or a digital currency exchange (DCE), is a business that allows customers to trade cryptocurrencies or digital currencies for other assets, such as conventional fiat money or other digital currencies. Exchanges may accept credit card payments, wire transfers or other forms of payment in exchange for digital currencies ...
A cryptocurrency tumbler or cryptocurrency mixing service [1] is a service that mixes potentially identifiable or "tainted" cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the trail back to the fund's original source. [2]
A darknet market is a commercial website on the dark web that operates via darknets such as Tor and I2P. [1] [2] They function primarily as black markets, selling or brokering transactions involving drugs, cyber-arms, [3] weapons, counterfeit currency, stolen credit card details, [4] forged documents, unlicensed pharmaceuticals, [5] steroids, [6] and other illicit goods as well as the sale of ...
On 7 December 2017, Slovenian cryptocurrency exchange Nicehash reported that hackers had stolen over $70 million using a hijacked company computer. [187] On 19 December 2017, Yapian, the owner of South Korean exchange Youbit, filed for bankruptcy after suffering two hacks that year. [188] [189] Customers were still granted access to 75% of ...
Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) is an XML specification for the exchange of translation memory (TM) data between computer-aided translation and localization tools with little or no loss of critical data.