Coin Fire has released Coin Fire Plus, a new premium service of Coin Fire where long-form, hard-hitting journalism will be brought exclusively to Plus members first. This piece is a sneak peek of the type of long-form investigations, articles, and features we will be producing in the Coin Fire Plus service. If you want to..
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GAW Miners Attorneys Confirm SEC Investigation
Editorial Disclosure: While Coin Fire was awaiting additional source confirmation, Coin Brief also received emails between Mr. Garza and his legal counsel and has published a feature regarding their contents. Coin Brief is an independent publication unrelated to Coin Fire. On January 19th, Coin Fire exclusively brought you information regarding a Securities and Exchange Commission..
Which Cryptocurrency Sites Are Impacted by Authy 2FA Security Exploit?
Sunday afternoon, security firm Sakurity disclosed a vulnerability found in the Authy 2 Factor authentication system. This vulnerability presents an interesting security hole that could lead to potential cryptocurrency thefts on sites using Authy two-factor authentication (2FA). Sakurity is based in Hong Kong and routinely performs penetration tests, source code audits, and vulnerability assessments. The..
Amazon Further Denies PayBase / GAW Miners Involvement
A few short weeks ago, Coin Fire spoke to officials at Amazon and other retailers about the implementation of PayCoin as a shopping option. We established with the retailers that none of them had any plans to integrate the cryptocurrency directly despite the repeated claims of Josh Garza and users on the HashTalk forums. Late..
MasterCard Denies PayCoin Partnership
On February 25th, 2015 Mr. Garza posted on the Hashtalk forums a screenshot of an email that he purports is the start of a partnership with MasterCard. In multiple forum posts Mr. Garza would state in a thread title, I love good news in the morning The posts from Mr. Garza implied a partnership had been..
