Blockchain.com is looking to partner with an undisclosed stablecoin project by the end of 2019, the firm’s CEO reportedly reveals. Crypto wallet provider Blockchain.com is seeking to partner with an unnamed stablecoin project by the end of 2019, the firm’s CEO Peter Smith revealed in an interview with crypto news agency The Block Jan. 21. […]
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sponsored A new blockchain network is focusing on social responsibility — clamping down on fraud, illicit activities and making crypto accessible to millions of people. For the everyday consumer, cryptocurrencies and blockchain are still shrouded in mystery. User interfaces that are difficult to understand represent a major barrier to entry, with slow transaction speeds frustrating […]
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As controversial figures on the right find themselves deplatformed, they increasingly turn to crypto for fundraising. Cryptocurrencies were never apolitical. The fateful 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto treatise did not appear in an ideological vacuum: Notions of online privacy, proactive use of cryptography for protecting individual freedom, and denationalization of currency that informed the Bitcoin creator’s vision […]
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Bakkt has announced their first acquisition, and a New Zealand crypto exchange has been hacked. Top Stories This Week Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork Delayed Until February After Vulnerability Found Ethereum’s (ETH) Constantinople hard fork has been delayed until late February after smart contract audit firm ChainSecurity found a security vulnerability allowing a reentrancy attack. The […]
Continue Readingsponsored The company says it has created the first platform where buyers decide when and how they want to see advertisements. A company intends to change the ways of traditional advertising by creating a platform called WeBuy. The idea is to allow what the company calls “buyers” to decide when and how the sellers of […]
Continue ReadingConsenSys has invested $350,000 in the new WordPress project called Newspack, an open-source publishing platform. Blockchain tech firm ConsenSys has joined news industry leaders to contribute to the creation of a new revenue-generating news platform by WordPress, according to an official press release published on Jan. 14. ConsenSys has invested $350,000 in the new WordPress […]
Continue ReadingNewly launched Belarus-based platform will allow traders to buy shares and other traditional assets with digital currencies. Belarus has launched a trading platform that enables customers to buy tokenized versions of shares, gold and other traditional assets, Reuters reported Jan. 15. The project is reportedly backed by two companies, Larnabel Ventures and VP Capital. According […]
Continue ReadingCrypto startup claims that Google Ads has blacklisted keywords mentioning Ethereum. On Jan. 10, Serbia-based smart contract auditing startup Decenter reported that Google has blacklisted keywords mentioning Ethereum (ETH) on its advertising platform, Google Ads. Google Ads: We can’t confirm that Ethereum is eligible to trigger ads, see our policy Specifically, the startup tweeted […]
Continue ReadingLatest crypto-related malware hides in a movie file on The Pirate Bay and targets specifically Windows PCs, Bleeping Computer reports. New malware posing as a movie file from torrent website The Pirate Bay (TPB) can manipulate web pages and replace Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) addresses, computing magazine Bleeping Computer reported Jan. 12. The malware […]
Continue ReadingAfter a weekend mostly in the red, the crypto markets keep sliding down, with Bitcoin and other major currencies seeing moderate losses. Monday, Jan. 14 — crypto markets are still sliding down after a weekend in the red. According to CoinMarketCap, Bitcoin (BTC) has hit a new 2019 low, trading at $3,552 around press time […]
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