Both parties agreed to increase awareness of the ongoing threat of ransomware attacks across the globe. International crime-fighting organization, Interpol, joined forces with cybersecurity firm, Kaspersky, to launch a campaign called “Anti-Ransomware Day”. The date is set on the third anniversary of the most significant ransomware attack on record, WannaCry. According to the announcement, the […]
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Pantera Capital Founder explains how a Bitcoin maximalist bias led to the biggest mistake of his investor career. Dr. Steven Waterhouse, a founding partner of Pantera Capital, says that his biggest regret as a VC is not investing in the Ethereum (ETH) Initial Coin Offering (ICO), but he learned his lessons from his mistake. Waterhouse […]
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Bitcoin is not protected by Chinese law, a Fujian court reportedly rules — but other Chinese courts seem to have a different view. As a virtual commodity, Bitcoin (BTC) cannot be protected by the Chinese law, a court in Fujian province reportedly ruled on May 13. Fujian court dismisses a Bitcoin-related lawsuit According to Fujian […]
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A financial solution provider based on Bitcoin’s network unveiled a mobile-friendly light client, requiring no full node operation. IOV Labs, a startup that constructs financial solutions based on Bitcoin’s blockchain, has introduced another layer of scaling. “IOV Labs announced the launch of its Light Client for the Lumino Payments Network, a third-layer Bitcoin scaling solution,” […]
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Binance froze ETH previously stolen from Upbit immediately after the suspicious transaction was reported. An address associated with the $50 million hack of South Korean crypto exchange, Upbit, has moved some of the stolen Ethereum (ETH) to Binance. The world’s biggest exchange immediately froze these funds on its platform, and has initiated an investigation. On […]
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Maker continues to garner criticism due to its onboarding of centralized collateral. The original MakerDAO (MKR) protocol shut down on May 12 at 4 PM UTC after an expedited shutdown procedure was initiated as a result of the Black Thursday events. With Single Collateral DAI, or Sai, only Ethereum (ETH) was usable as collateral for […]
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One techie music artist has hidden Bitcoin in his new album, and it’s up for grabs to whoever solves the associated puzzle. Logic Beach, an instrumental, non-verbal techie sounding music group recently released a new album with Bitcoin (BTC) hidden inside its walls. Listeners are now working find the 12 word seed phrase for the […]
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Bitcoin community removes $200M worth of BTC from exchanges the first day after the halving. Following Bitcoin’s third block halving on May 11, users removed 23,540 Bitcoins (BTC) from online exchanges. This appears to indicate heightened levels of confidence in the asset. It also continues the recent trend of users moving their coins to wallets […]
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Bitcoin price is moving similarly as in April 2019, when BTC surged from the $5,000s to $14,000 in 62 days. Bitcoin (BTC) price is portraying a similar trend seen in April 2019, when BTC surged from $5,000s to $14,000 within two months. Based on the similarity of the price action, there is a possibility that […]
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We have now officially entered the 6.25 block subsidy era, and the fourth Bitcoin halving started to count down. The cryptocurrency industry has just experienced the most anticipated event, Bitcoin’s (BTC) third halving. The last 12.5 Bitcoin block was mined by F2Pool and encoded the message: “NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed’s Plan Far Exceeds […]
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