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How the Rise of Crypto Mining Will Impact the B2B Ecosystem in 2021

Valasys

Crypto mining has only been around since Bitcoin was first mined in 2009, and in the current year, the terminology has made quite a splash among miners, investors, and cybercriminals alike. Each separate transaction gets bundled with others to form a list that gets added to the unconfirmed block.

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Why brands keep emailing you to ask how you feel about them

The Customer

The FTC has published a discouragement of this practice, known as list brokering, warning that these lists are often assembled “using illegal means.”). While I was writing this story, one of my editors forwarded me a whole bundle of emails she’d gotten from brands in the last few days.