The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced it will study blockchain technology to aid in smarter food security. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a blueprint and pilot study for food safety, highlighting blockchain as a viable option for some of the identified challenges. The blueprint, released earlier this week, breaks […]
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Traders return coins to exchanges as Bitcoin moves lower, with CryptoQuant expecting a “small” retracement below $9,000. Bitcoin (BTC) edging ever closer to $9,000 support may lead to a major sell-off by exchange users, one analyst warns. According to data from on-chain analytics resource CryptoQuant, inflows of BTC to exchanges spiked on July 15. Kraken […]
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Hackers were able to get away with posting fake Bitcoin giveaways on various Twitter accounts thanks to high level internal admin access. Crypto scammers responsible for what could be the largest ever hack on Twitter were able to succeed because individual employees have high levels of access to information and control on the platform. In […]
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Canadian blockchain upstart BlockCrushr alleges that ConsenSys stole proprietary technology after it participated in ConsenSys’ Tachyon accelerator program. Canada-based fintech firm BlockCrushr has filed a lawsuit in New York accusing blockchain tech company ConsenSys of stealing trade secrets. BlockCrushr claims that ConsenSys launched an Ether (ETH)-based recurring payments platform called ‘Daisy Payments’ one day before […]
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The increasing use of HFT may help explain Bitcoin’s record low volatility. The Bitcoin (BTC) market has been quiet lately. A little too quiet. As of Tuesday Bitcoin’s volatility levels had dropped to levels unseen since 2017. In recent weeks, Bitcoin has fallen behind as investors piled into altcoins such as Chainlink (LINK) and Cardano […]
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Crypto Twitter has taken aim at the Twitter hack, suggest there is more to this attack than meets the eye. Earlier this morning, a large-scale Twitter attack took over some of the most powerful verified Twitter accounts including Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Wiz Khalifa, Warren Buffett, Mike Bloomberg, Barack […]
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DeFi earnings fell in Q2 as MakerDAO dropped the savings rate and Synthetix began reporting its actual earnings. The DeFi industry may be booming this year, but a new report shows earnings have fallen despite a huge surge in token prices. The second quarter token report from Bankless, a DeFi focused newsletter from Mythos Capital […]
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Data concerning the owner of a website associated with today’s wholesale Twitter account hacks has leaked online. Internet sleuths have converged on the website ‘CryptoForHealth.com’ which was associated with the widespread Twitter account hacks that began on July 15. The earliest incarnations of the scam saw the accounts of numerous crypto luminaries purport to partner […]
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A user has hidden message in transactions to the Bitcoin wallet associated with the Twitter hack. Some of the largest and most influential Twitter accounts in the world were hacked earlier today to promote fake Bitcoin giveaways. But eagle eyed Reddit users have spotted a series of hidden messages in transactions sent to the Bitcoin […]
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Cypherium’s founder predicts that adoption of CBDCs for cross border payments will happen sooner than expected. Sky Guo, founder of the Cypherium blockchain, predicts that central bank digital currency cross-border payments will happen “in the next couple years” or “even sooner”. In an interview with Cointelegraph on July 13, Guo said that CBDC development among […]
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