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Having taken advantage of Telegram’s downtime, crypto giveaway scammers offered users free cryptocurrency on behalf of Pavel Durov as an apology and gratitude for support. To do that, they hijacked the Twitter account of a Swedish musical band Club 8 and made it look exactly like Durov’s.

Many users have recently lost access to watching all videos of popular creators because of the tougher censorship policy of YouTube. Simultaneously, given the latest data scandal with Facebook, more and more people seek alternatives, such as blockchain-powered networks.

Ethereum’s founder Vitalik Buterin has expressed his indignation at millions of obvious scams using his name on major social networks, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, in order to steal digital currency, like bitcoin or other altcoins from inexperienced investors. He has called to his followers for help in banning malicious profiles.

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Bitcoin transaction fees have fallen to their lowest mark for a year, as Bitcoin Core Fee, a major information source on the cryptocurrency market, posted on its Twitter. The current transaction fee is 1 satoshi per byte to get into the next block.

Just as Facebook and Google recently put a ban on cryptocurrency advertisements, Twitter has been reported to do the same. The ban may take place in the coming two weeks and will forbid the advertising of ICOs, token sales, crypto wallets, as well as crypto exchanges.

The creator of Litecoin, Charlie Lee, has recently posted on his Twitter that he believes that Ethereum will never go over Bitcoin’s market cap. But at the same time, he stated his position clearly – Litecoin will definitely beat its major rival Bitcoin Cash.

The 700,000 SiaCoin from Nanopool’s previous campaign are still fresh on the blockchain and the pool’s developers have already launched a new one. This time, in a push to attract miners, the service has decided to eliminate all fees, as announced on its Twitter account. SIA can now be mined for free. The campaign will last at least two weeks.

The Head of the Chechen Republic and a former member of the Chechen independence movement, Ramzan Kadyrov, has announced on Twitter his intention to buy a share of Bitcoin. He has not mentioned the amount of investment but he did admit that the money could be lost.