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In a groundbreaking collaboration, Kresus SuperApp and Tools for Humanity have joined forces to tackle the persistent challenge of digital identity in the evolving landscape of Web3 technologies. The integration of Tools for Humanity’s WorldID into the Kresus platform marks a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing the security and functionality of digital interactions. Digital identity […]
2024-1-30 13:00 | |
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The blockchain trilemma is the challenge of achieving scalability, security, and decentralisation simultaneously on a blockchain network. What is the blockchain trilemma? The blockchain trilemma is a term used to describe the three main challenges that blockchain technology faces: decentralization, scalability, and security.
2022-11-17 22:08 | |
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The BPI took on the U. S. Department of Treasury’s challenge. Treasury requested public comment on digital assets’ national security implications, and the Bitcoin Policy Institute answered with a bomb of a document.
2022-11-5 05:31 | |
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Chainalysis director of research Kimberly Grauer joined “First Mover” to discuss what the rising string of crypto hacks could mean for investors and why addressing cybersecurity could be the best preventive measure.
2022-10-18 20:25 | |
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Bitcoin’s “Mayflower Generation” has evolved into a revolutionary army. But, how has the threat landscape changed — and how can they keep their coins safe?
2022-2-14 17:13 | |
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Security has always been a recurring challenge faced by DeFi protocols. Over tens of exploits, leading to the loss of several millions of dollars, have occurred since the start of 2021 as black hat hackers keep taking advantage of vulnerabilities on these protocols.
2021-8-31 23:50 | |
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Crypto volatility is a much-feared aspect of the crypto ecosystem, majorly responsible for slow crypto adoption. Many crypto projects tackle this challenge by using different security and stability mechanisms.
2021-8-24 16:43 | |
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The blockchain trilemma poses a challenge for developers as they face the problem of integrating decentralization, security, and scalability into their projects. This could lead to compromising on anyThe post Building a multi-chain protocol: An interview with Kommunitas co-founder Robbie Jeo appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-8-2 07:30 | |
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The bearer nature of digital assets presents challenges to institutions getting into crypto. The need for greater security will likely impact the whole industry.
2021-1-7 19:04 | |
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The founder of blockchain security company Quantstamp, Richard Ma, said security is the biggest challenge for DeFi’s growth.
2020-7-9 13:15 | |
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Bitcoin isn’t property under new Russian ruling while authorities in the U.S. and the EU challenge encrypted networks in this week’s Law Decoded.
2020-7-4 21:47 | |
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Experts at London Blockchain Week say security is DeFi’s greatest challenge: “We used to have nerds attacking the system, now we have nerds with money”
2020-3-13 15:31 | |
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Coinspeaker PayPal Rewards Hacker Who Discovers Its VulnerabilityAccording to PayPal’s summary of the problem, if users had entered their PayPal credentials after following a login link from a malicious site, hackers could have completed the security challenge on their own and got hold of users' passwords.
2020-1-11 15:06 | |
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With the use of AI growing in almost all areas of business and industry, we have a new problem to worry about – the “hijacking” of artificial intelligence. Hackers use the same techniques and systems that help us, to compromise our data, our security, and our lifestyle.
2019-6-22 17:00 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.
2019-5-13 18:34 | |
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Venture Capital Funding Challenged By STOs There comes a time in every young business's lifetime when they need to expand and dominate or stagnate and watch competitors take over market share. Venture Capital funding was the driver behind the tech industry that flourished in the eighties that created Silicon Valley. It was also the driver […]
2019-5-1 23:12 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Many Chinese cryptominers have migrated to places with cheap electricity and favorable policies as a result of the escalated government crackdown on cryptocurrency and its production process.
2019-4-11 23:38 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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Cryptocurrency platforms have taken to offering bounties to hackers recently, as they challenge white-hat hackers to test out their security, investigating for bugs and vulnerabilities in their system.
2019-3-29 00:09 | |
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IBM’s Jesse Lund, who heads the blockchain division, claims IBM is the leader in blockchain technology. In a recent interview, Lund stated: What IBM’s been doing as the leader in blockchain technology for the last three years is adding security and confidence to the system.
2019-3-23 21:47 | |
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As anxiety grows around every new twist and turn in the ongoing QuadrigaCX drama, along with extensive QuadrigaCX media coverage, Canada’s mainstream media has been calling on the government to bring in better oversight and regulation of cryptocurrency businesses, especially cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-3-20 18:42 | |
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Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.
2019-2-18 18:30 | |
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In the time-honored tradition of goal setting for the new year, Bitcoin Magazine has compiled a short list of seven possible New Year’s Resolutions for Bitcoiners as we head into 2019.
2019-1-2 03:22 | |
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Two US Congressmen have introduced the “Token Taxonomy Act,” which proposes to exclude digital tokens from the definition of a security. If passed, the sponsors say it could provide more “certainty” for blockchain innovators.
2018-12-22 00:55 | |
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A new development has arisen in the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) efforts to regulate ICOs: a District Judge has turned back a request for an injunction.
2018-11-30 23:08 | |
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If you’re a tech junkie, you’ve inevitably thought about what it would be like to run into your future self, even just a year from now. What apps would be on your phone? How would your user experience change? What’s the next big thing you won’t be able to imagine your life without? To find out we went to this year’s EIT Digital Challenge where some of Europe’s finest deep tech scaleups and late-stage startups were pitching cutting-edge solutions that will innovate everything from online security to our own personal well-being (see all 10 winners here).
2018-11-6 15:19 | |
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While cryptocurrency exchanges have always allowed users to exchange cryptocurrencies against other digital tokens or fiat currencies quickly, history has repeatedly shown that they can be vulnerable to security breaches and hacks.
2018-11-5 18:00 | |
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First hinting at his project in a reply to a BitPay tweet on August 2017, Nicolas Dorier boldly claimed that BTCPay would make one of crypto’s most popular payment processors obsolete.
2018-10-24 22:00 | |
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How far can you trust the institutions and organizations that hold your sensitive medical information? Earlier this month, the Canadian government fined the manager of a pharmacy for using the provincial Drug Information System to snoop on the confidential medical history of friends, family, and coworkers.
2018-10-17 10:54 | |
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The noise that surrounds economic relations between the United States and China is amping up exponentially. You can thank the latest trade wars for that, as fresh tensions boil over between the two nations who are currently trading new tariffs on imports, with no shortage of ill will underpinning the moves.
2018-10-10 23:38 | |
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NHCT is a total health management platform that is built on the philosophy of preventive rather than reactive medical care`. It uses blockchain to counter systemic and technological issues that plague healthcare of today like high costs, data fragmentation & data security.
2018-9-25 20:03 | |
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In the past decade, gradual efforts have led to a huge increase in marketing use of digital assets. By far the biggest challenge, aside from the latent nature of bypassing traditional currency options, has been the elusive sense of security.
2018-9-1 18:00 | |
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Bitfi, the McAfee led cryptocurrency wallet and the alleged unhackable wallet that was set to change the entire landscape for cryptocurrency storage has finally caved in and retreated, the company and John McAfee himself, have now confirmed that the wallet is indeed vulnerable to hacks.
2018-8-31 23:00 | |
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Origin Protocol, one of the early initial token offerings listed on CoinList, has announced the launch of its new decentralized messaging service. Origin’s latest offering could challenge encrypted giant Telegram, which, while not decentralized, is widely used within the cryptocurrency community.
2018-9-1 01:43 | |
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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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In contemporary times, the digital and creative industries have fundamental problems with traditional payment processors. Most creators, especially low profile creators, agree that they are not paid what they merit by content publishing platform.
2018-8-5 18:53 | |
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This past week, we talked to three security experts about how to design smarter and more secure smart contracts. Google is dipping its toe in the blockchain waters by introducing integrations for applications built with Ethereum and Hyperledger.
2018-8-5 16:08 | |
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Ensuring consumer asset protection is key for the survival of cryptocurrency while regulation is the main challenge, said the Binance chief Changpeng Zhao.
2018-8-3 20:59 | |
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EOS is in the early stages of determining how the network will handle decentralization, scalability, and security. Despite having several issues the network has remained robust, able to handle any challenge, and correct course.
2018-7-31 07:07 | |
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Crypto-crusader and cyber security expert, John McAfee, is offering a $100,000 bounty to anyone who can hack his new hardware wallet known as BitFi. McAfee believes the hardware wallet is unhackable and has put the challenge out there for everyone to prove him wrong.
2018-7-28 13:30 | |
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If you possess decent cyber hacking skills, then you might want to give attention to John McAfee’s latest open challenge. The eccentric antivirus software creator posted a tweet on July 24, offering a $100,000 reward to whoever can break into his Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet.
2018-7-28 05:00 | |
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(Source: Blocktrain) SealBlock recently launched the world’s first hardware-based hot wallet solution, designed to enable consumers and businesses to hold their digital assets in a highly-secure but connected location.
2018-7-27 11:00 | |
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Decentralized exchange DEx. top recently announced it joined forces with the world’s largest ethical hacker community, HackerOne, to launch the HackerOne Challenge bug bounty program. The program leverages on HackerOne’s network of security experts to search and provide.
2018-7-8 21:05 | |
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Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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Ripple has a problem. Their token has lost five-sixths of its value since December. That’s not the problem. Ripple is facing a couple of class action lawsuits. That’s not the problem either.
2018-6-29 16:24 | |
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has openly criticized Blockchain research company nChain’s latest patent award, calling for opponents to challenge it in court. Pure Invention? nChain, whose chief scientist Craig Wright claims to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto while heavily endorsing altcoin Bitcoin Cash, received its latest European patent for what it describes as a “digital security invention.
2018-6-27 06:00 | |
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Bitfyler, a premier bitcoin exchange in Japan will not allow new users on their platform until further notice. The new notice comes shortly after the Financial Services Agency (FSA), a regulatory body overseeing cryptocurrency exchanges, announced that it found loopholes in Bitflyer’s security system.
2018-6-22 15:01 | |
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Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin’s Ownership Base is Maturing, Reducing Reliance on Retail: Analysts Bitcoin has stayed resilient through recent market turbulence as institutional investors and long-term holders continue accumulating, signaling a maturing market and strengthening its long-term outlook.
Pro-crypto legislation could allow DeFi to potentially connect with mainstream financial systems, says Toe Bautista.
Institutional investors located in Canada significantly increased their holdings of cryptocurrencies in 2023, a survey by KPMG found.
The company allows institutional investors to comply with regulations when interacting with DeFi, and recently facilitated a proof of concept trial with Nomura's crypto arm Laser Digital by building a compliance wrapper on top of USDC stablecoin.
Prime brokers are a new source of liquidity in this cycle, which could be good and bad in the long-run, says Phillip Moran, CEO of the Digital Opportunities Group.
The rise of Bitcoin may tempt investors to ask “Why Not 100% Bitcoin?” Here’s why.
The Ethereum blockchain has nearly one million validators today. The combination of protocol rewards and priority transaction fees against a stable monetary supply backdrop results in a compelling [real] yield for investors.