European researchers have published a paper detailing an attack that can be used to deanonymize channel balances on the Lightning Network. Researchers from the Norwegian University and the University of Luxembourg have published a research paper detailing an attack that can deanonymize transactions broadcast across Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. The Lightning Network emerged as a controversial […]
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A controversial, blockchain-based digital health passport could enable employees currently in lockdown to go back to work. Oracle has partnered with Vottun, a company that specializes in the certification and traceability of data on the blockchain, to release a digital health passport that could enable employees currently in lockdown to go back to work. The […]
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Researchers are using AI and Blockchain to manage lockdown efforts and predict how the pandemic will evolve. A Spanish research team of more than 100 people is developing an app that uses AI and blockchain to predict the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic and to help manage lockdown measures. The app, which has the support […]
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A Florida resident has been charged by the CFTC for raising $1.6 million through a fraudulent cryptocurrency and forex trading scam. The United States Commodity Futures Trade Commission (CFTC) has filed a complaint against Florida resident Alan Friedland for fraudulently raising $1.6 million through a cryptocurrency tied to a forex trading scheme. The April 16 […]
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Bitcoin critics often cite scaling issues, a lack of privacy, and centralized mining as reasons to not invest in Bitcoin, but what if these problems are actually advantages? Bitcoin is often described as gold 2.0; a superior system of storing and transferring value. It has seen a rapid increase in market capitalization since its introduction […]
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Jinwowo and the China Mobile Blockchain Association Committee are building China’s first blockchain lab to empower e-commerce. Network technology company Jinwowo and the China Mobile Blockchain Association Committee held a “cloud signing” ceremony on April 13 to partner on the development of the first “blockchain and e-commerce ecology” laboratory in Chongqing China, according to a […]
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After notching a two week low at $6,468, Bitcoin bulls have returned to launch an attack on the $7,200 resistance. Less than 24-hours ago Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped to a two week low at $6,468, inciting calls for a revisit to the sub-$6K zone but the digital asset deftly shook off the bears by reversing […]
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Bitcoin may be highly volatile, but it offers less systemic risk than assets in legacy markets like stocks, says Scott Melker. Crypto trader Scott Melker says that while stocks and Bitcoin (BTC) have appeared to move in tandem since Black Thursday: “They are not correlated assets”. In a Twitter thread for his 84,000 followers, “The […]
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Major US banks have been knocked offline, unable to cope with the volume of stimulus checks. Some U.S. banks have been unable to handle the increased demand generated by the stimulus checks being distributed to 80 million Americans. On April 15 the online platforms for US Bank, PNC, and Fifth Third Banks went down, apparently […]
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In its most recent position paper, the IFWG labeled crypto as a possible (but unlikely) threat to South Africa’s monetary system. As part of a recent lengthy position paper on crypto, a South African regulatory body called the Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group, or IFWG, mentioned crypto as a possible but unlikely risk to the country’s […]
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