2019-4-4 14:45 |
An analytical firm from Boston says that since March 15, a great number of crypto wallets of average users were active, which could have provoked the current BTC increase origin »
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Smartphone hardware wallets could be the first step towards a new way of interacting with digital assets. Since smartphones spread all over the world and market penetration is very high in several countries, cryptocurrencies could be able to expand with the help of these devices.
2019-1-28 20:24 | |
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At first glance, the concept of a smartphone-based hardware wallet is an attractive one. Due to the ubiquity of mobile devices, such solutions could give crypto adoption a massive boost. But even for fully-sold proponents, the issue comes with some obvious security questions.
2019-1-28 23:32 | |
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There are a multitude of options when it comes to deciding where and how to store your cryptocurrency and the security keys that make it all possible. You could store your coins in hardware wallets, software wallets, on the exchange you bought them from, or use some other custodial service to look after them for you.
2019-1-24 16:17 | |
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The developers that work on a crypto called Beam, which is focused on being a privacy coin, have affirmed that they have discovered a critical bug that could have put their wallets at risk. Fortunately, the bug was uncovered last then and it was quickly patched up before anything happened. Despite the fact that they […]
2019-1-17 00:20 | |
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A large amount of Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens have been transferred, over the last hours, from Cryptopia to wallets linked with several cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance. This activity could have been associated with the Cryptopia hack that took place earlier this week, leading the exchange to suspend its operations.
2019-1-16 18:49 | |
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Your crypto wallet could contain laundered coins, says a firm specializing in cryptocurrency security. BestMixer, a bitcoin tumbler site that provides untraceable cryptocurrency, may have tainted a significant number of wallets by gifting them small amounts of Bitcoin (BTC) – a technique known as ‘crypto dusting.
2019-1-14 22:11 | |
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TrustToken, the company behind the TrueUSD (TUSD) stablecoin, has launched a technology that could be a game-changer for crypto exchanges. A new feature, dubbed AutoSweep, has been integrated into a TrueUSD smart contract, potentially making it much easier to manage large numbers of crypto wallets.
2019-1-14 20:50 | |
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According to the analytics firm Flipside Crypto, there has been an uptrend in previously dormant Bitcoin wallets coming back to life. Dormant wallets are defined as wallets that are totally inactive for a period longer than 6 months.
2019-1-13 02:47 | |
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The number of active Bitcoin wallets, many of which have long been dormant, has seen an uptick that could herald some major market movements, analysts say
2019-1-12 07:00 | |
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The number of long-dormant Bitcoin wallets becoming active once again is rising according to a crypto research group. According to those compiling the data, this could pave the way for large price moves.
2019-1-12 02:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency analysts, Bryce Weiner and Andrew Desantis, decided to explain why Segregated Witness (SegWit) – an implementation to make Bitcoin transactions’ size smaller – has a vulnerability.
2019-1-6 22:17 | |
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New user-friendly Bitcoin Lightning wallets such as Bluewallet are ushering in the future of payments. Users can now send and receive Bitcoin Lightning payments right to/from your mobile device, the ramifications of which could be revolutionary for the future of online payments.
2019-1-5 20:00 | |
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Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder.
2019-1-1 19:31 | |
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In a demonstration titled “Wallet. fail,” a team of security researchers hacked into the Trezor One, Ledger Blue and Ledger Nano S. Unfortunately, it appears as if their findings were first put on display at the 35th Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) in Leipzig, Germany, rather than through accepted Responsible Disclosure practices, which would have allowed the manufacturers to patch the vulnerabilities and protect their customers from any potential attack.
2019-1-1 19:15 | |
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This week, a group of security researchers gave a presentation called Wallet. Fail at the #35C3 Security Conference. During the presentation, the team outlined vulnerabilities in three popular hardware wallets.
2018-12-30 20:13 | |
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Yesterday, an auction was held by cryptocurrency and blockchain artist @cryptograffiti for a piece titled “black swan,” which the artist made using “fiat and counterfeit detector pen ink.
2018-12-21 20:15 | |
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Last week, it was reported that a Bitcoin whale had moved thousands of bitcoin into different wallet addresses. Between December 1 to December 6, 2018, the whale split 856,000 bitcoin between 107 wallets, sending an equal 8,000 BTC into each wallet.
2018-12-12 23:53 | |
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The holiday season is here. And even if crypto prices are on the coal heap, you can still have fun spreading some holiday bitcoin cheer. For the bitcoiners in your life, this could mean a crypto-related gift as a token of solidarity.
2018-12-12 23:22 | |
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Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
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Global Bitcoin payment service BitPay has warned customers of a vulnerability on a third-party NodeJS package used by the Copay and BitPay apps which could be used to capture users’ private keys.
2018-11-28 06:30 | |
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A recent vulnerability in the Ethereum network could have reportedly allowed hackers to gain massive profits from cryptocurrency exchanges which haven’t set up a Gas usage limit. A Critical Vulnerability A group of researchers discovered a vulnerability in Ethereum which allowed attackers to drain exchanges by burning their ETH on high transaction costs or to benefit directly by minting GasToken.
2018-11-27 02:00 | |
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Charles Hoskinson is best known today as a co-founder of both Ethereum and IOHK, where he leads the research, design and development of Cardano. But before these projects, there was Bitcoin.
2018-11-20 23:08 | |
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Blockchain financial service company Unchained Capital will now offer multi-signature and multi-institution cold storage solutions for borrowers who leverage its crypto-collateralized loans service.
2018-11-2 21:42 | |
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IOTA’s reusable address problem is regarded as one of the most polarizing subjects in the IOTA community so far. Olaf van Wijk, tech lead and board member at Altos-tech, published a blog entry detailing how IOTA-Pay could hold the key to the infamous reusable address problem of IOTA wallets.
2018-10-25 16:09 | |
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Square invested both time and money into a bitcoin cold storage solution to support trading through its Cash app. Realising that this work could help others in the community, Square today released the entire GitHub repository as open-source.
2018-10-23 19:00 | |
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In 2009, Bitcoin was ushered in as an alternative to fiat currency, promising to revolutionize the future of peer-to-peer spending. Since then, it has spawned scores of other cryptocurrencies with various value propositions and potential.
2018-10-22 17:11 | |
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Yesterday, October 11th 2018, you may have heard of a little bit of a crash that occurred in the markets, seeing Bitcoin significantly dropping below the $6,500 mark. The third biggest digital currency saw a big change too as it moved from $0.
2018-10-12 13:00 | |
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Fears that Bitcoin whales could dump enormous amounts of coins crash the market might be absolutely groundless – or so does new research suggest. Researchers from Chainalysis examined the transaction history of the 32 largest Bitcoin wallets and concluded that – contrary to popular belief – big-time cryptocurrency whales play a crucial role in keeping the market stable.
2018-10-11 15:58 | |
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The Liquid Network is up and running. More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27.
2018-10-11 20:44 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges are still unregulated, though many go to great lengths to operate ethically. Digital assets as of now are not yet insured by organizations such as the FDIC, meaning if you lose your crypto, it could be gone for good.
2018-10-10 07:00 | |
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Brooklyn-based goTenna has launched TxTenna, a mobile app that allows users to send bitcoin without an internet connection. Built in partnership with Samourai Wallet, the mobile app will enable users to send bitcoin using a secure and private network free of censorship.
2018-10-8 19:38 | |
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An exchange-traded bitcoin fund (ETF) would signal greater acceptance of bitcoin as a mainstreet investment, while also making it much easier for both institutional and retail investors to get involved.
2018-10-6 01:07 | |
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Today marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 17. 0, the 17th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost 10 years ago and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2018-10-3 16:28 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-10-2 17:27 | |
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In a landmark case for the cryptocurrency industry, a federal judge has ruled that a cryptocurrency caught in the midst of a lawsuit is a commodity, court documents reveal.
2018-9-28 23:15 | |
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It’s no secret that DApps have struggled to achieve adoption; in fact, according to stateofthedapps. com, the most popular DApp currently has just 1,811 daily active users (DAUs).
2018-9-27 20:05 | |
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A man known as “Tokyo Whale,” for the enormous amount of bitcoin he controls, confirms he unloaded another big chunk of it earlier this year. Nobuaki Kobayashi, the trustee of now-defunct Tokyo exchange Mt.
2018-9-25 19:54 | |
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Monero developers have disclosed a major bug that could really have been nasty. Until now, attackers could have drained Monero from exchanges (or any organizational wallet), all for the cost of a few transaction fees.
2018-9-25 19:10 | |
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Over 30 years after creating eCash, a predecessor of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies which spawned the Cypherpunk movement of the 1980s, Dr. David Chaum is back in the public eye with a claim of having invented “the world’s fastest cryptocurrency.
2018-9-22 23:59 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
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Could Ledger Build an ERC-20 Functionality on Its App? Most of us know the famous cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger. They provide different kinds of wallets to its clients. Perhaps, the most famous and known is the Ledger Nano S.
2018-9-9 05:41 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-7 00:27 | |
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In an effort to expand its institutional services, Coinbase is joining an industry chase for the ever-elusive bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF). As reported by Business Insider, the cryptocurrency exchange provider has been liaising with BlackRock, a U.
2018-9-7 00:16 | |
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Abra, the all-in-one digital wallet and cryptocurrency exchange, has announced its support for Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) bank accounts. European users can now enable direct wire transfers from European banks to purchase any of Abra’s 28 available cryptocurrencies.
2018-9-7 23:38 | |
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In order to make payments on the lightning network — Bitcoin’s second layer solution for instant and cheap transactions — users must first fund lightning channels.
2018-8-30 22:18 | |
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A new way to trade bitcoin and digital currencies is now in the books. SparkSwap is the first crypto exchange to be built on the Lightning Network. It allows users to trade both bitcoin and altcoins in seconds without depositing assets with a third party.
2018-8-10 18:32 | |
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Independent DJ Justin Blau (known on stage as 3LAU) didn’t exactly stumble into the cryptocurrency industry — to say so would misrepresent how much thought he’s put into his blockchain-based event network, Our Music Festival (OMF).
2018-8-8 19:23 | |
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The slow trickle of traditional investment into the crypto market may turn into a flood if a new platform launched by blockchain services provider AxiomLevel Technologies makes its desired impact.
2018-8-6 18:55 | |
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