As lead maintainer Wladimir van der Laan takes a break from Bitcoin duties, we ask what would happen if the entire Github maintenance team disappeared. It is a question that many in the crypto community must have asked themselves at least once. The news of Wladimir van der Laan taking a temporary hiatus, prompted us to […]
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Taking account of more aggressive crypto tracking measures and what they mean for future government adoption of blockchain. Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s note One of the most persistent myths about Bitcoin is its supposed anonymity. More properly termed pseudonymity, […]
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Centralized Decentralized Finance may not make a lot of sense, but it is coming. Crypto.com, a conglomerate dealing primarily with payments and the exchange of crypto assets, announced its foray into decentralized finance with a platform named DeFi Swap. According to its whitepaper, published on Friday, DeFi Swap is a fork of the popular Uniswap […]
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Ethereum 2.0 is coming this year, and while enterprises won’t use it immediately, the rise of DeFi will play a significant role for organizations. Many members of the blockchain community have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of Ethereum 2.0, the major upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain set to be released in multiple phases. Phase 0 […]
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Opinion: Binance approving and listing SUSHI tokens says more about industry-wide standards rather than Binance’s policy. Binance’s Changpeng Zhao has received more than his fair share of criticism since Binance’s 2017 launch. As a high-profile crypto figure and the CEO of one of the sector’s largest companies, that is to be expected. But the denunciation […]
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The United States IRS agency has announced a bounty of up to $625k to anyone who can crack Monero’s privacy. The United States Internal Revenue Services (IRS) has offered a bounty of up to $625,000 to anyone who can break purportedly untraceable privacy coins like Monero (XMR) as well as trace transactions on Bitcoin’s (BTC) […]
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Despite Ethereum’s proposal to fix its high fees, some feel that more needs to be done to improve the network. The crypto market has been on the receiving end of a market downturn during the past week, with many cryptocurrencies facing drops in valuation almost overnight, raising concerns that a bear market has commenced. Furthermore, […]
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CipherTrace believes financial institutions are failing to identify up to 90% of suspicious transactions related to crypto assets Financial institutions worldwide have reported 134,500 suspicious transactions concerning virtual currencies in the past two years — but that’s just the tip of the iceberg according to a report published by blockchain forensics firm CipherTrace. The report […]
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The privacy-based browser is adding anti-phishing solutions from PhishFort. According to a Sept. 8 tweet from Brave, the privacy-based browser has incorporated open source solutions from cybersecurity firm PhishFort. The aim is to help prevent phishing attacks — a scam that usually involves tricking a victim into giving up personal information with a fake email […]
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Combining privacy and auditability requires unconventional solutions. A new enterprise-focused blockchain is trying to carve a spot in this competitive market by focusing on an integrated digital identity system. Called Concordium, the blockchain is among the first to use identity proofs as an integral part of its protocol. Cointelegraph spoke with Concordium’s chief marketing officer, […]
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