Ledger wallet users face mounting home invasion and other scareware threats as hacker dumps private customer information online. The hacker likely responsible for Ledger’s security breach in July recently dumped a large amount of data exposing the personal information of over 270,000 customers, including phone numbers and physical addresses. The leak also included 1 million […]
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DeFi, like crypto as a whole, features brilliant and questionable projects in equal measure. As 2020 comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on the biggest crypto developments and the wild ride the sector took investors on. At the beginning of the year, Bitcoin (BTC) was hovering just above $7,000, and the […]
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The privacy paradox has a potential resolution — if both sides can accept compromise in an increasingly polarized financial system The unique power of blockchain and cryptocurrency can also be considered their weakness. Crypto users gain unparalleled privacy for financial transactions through a decentralized transactional system. Governments, however, demand transparency in financial transactions for legal […]
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“The idea is that if you can provide a root of trust that is literally in outer space, you have something that has an unprecedented level of security because this is a fully tamper-proof Trusted Execution Environment.” At first glance, an out-of-this-world plan to launch a network of crypto satellites into space, sounds like one […]
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The lawsuit alleges Greenidge circumvented state laws by seeking regulatory approval “through two separate but interdependent approval applications.” Several organizations have filed a lawsuit against the town of Torrey, New York for approving a plan to expand a Bitcoin mining facility near one of the Finger Lakes. In court documents filed on Thursday in the […]
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A vote on $600 payments to Americans combines with bank buybacks as one analyst says that institutional buying could mean the Bitcoin bull run “never stops.” Bitcoin (BTC) surged to a new all-time high over the weekend, but what’s in store as a new week begins? With $24,000 still in play, Cointelegraph takes a look […]
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Decentralizing finance, governance and technology should be the ultimate goal for the DeFi sector. The role of governance in the booming decentralized finance industry is a nascent one, and there are ongoing conversations from key figures in the industry around its purpose and what governance may look like in the future. Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX […]
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The Australian crypto ecosystem has flourished despite the pandemic, with a booming DeFi sector, a five year blockchain roadmap and the embrace of the technology by banks and the finance sector. For a country of 25 million people, Australia punches well above its weight both economically and in the world of blockchain. Australians have long […]
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Decentralization can trigger a transition to a post-scarcity, post-capitalist crypto economy of abundance, while solving species-threatening negative externalities. Decentralization is not a luxury; it is a necessity. In a prescient article in The Atlantic back in 2012, science fiction writer Bruce Sterling referred to the likes of Amazon, Facebook and Google as “The Stacks,” predicting […]
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The biggest names and strongest voices cheering on crypto throughout 2020. For much of 2020, it wasn’t exactly a hard year to be a cheerleader for cryptocurrency. Emerging from a brutal macro bear market, the space once again proved doubters wrong and attracted a new batch of converts as money-printing efforts across the globe turned […]
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