2023-6-14 16:00 |
Crypto, memes and bad news have a similar adoption curve these days.
Similar to Notcoin - Blum - Airdrops In 2024
2023-6-14 16:00 |
Crypto, memes and bad news have a similar adoption curve these days.
Similar to Notcoin - Blum - Airdrops In 2024
Despite Ethereum’s rejection at $200 and Bitcoin’s similar rejection at $7,800, the cryptocurrency market has held strong over the past 24 hours. Case in point, Ether continues to trade for $194, just shy of the weekly highs and above the $180-190 region, which analysts have identified as a zone of support.
2020-4-28 04:08 | |
Ripple’s XRP has generated spectacular returns in the past six years despite many branding it as a bad investment. For perspective, $1000 invested in XRP sometime in 2014 has appreciated more compared to a similar investment made in bitcoin (BTC).
2020-4-22 23:03 | |
Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.
2019-9-2 04:03 | |
Facebook doesn’t need any more bad press, but here we go again. According to a report by Bloomberg, the company paid hundreds of contractors to transcribe audio snippets from your conversations within its services – without making it sufficiently clear these clips were being recorded.
2019-8-14 00:28 | |
The Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) has shut down cryptomixing site Bestmixer. io. According to local media, Dutch authorities moved to shut down the site on May 22, 2019, as part of a joint operation with police agencies from several European nations, including France, Latvia and Luxembourg.
2019-5-22 21:13 | |
Through a varied mix of good and bad publicity, cryptocurrency today is very close to mainstream acceptance. While the cryptospace has witnessed the recent involvement of several non-financial organizations such as Nike and Jaguar, some industry leaders and government officials have openly discounted cryptos’ utility.
2019-5-16 17:00 | |
Several major cryptocurrency traders have reportedly begun discussing plans to enact an industry-wide blacklist of suspicious actors, to stem the tide of scams, theft and fraud in the crypto space.
2019-5-10 15:52 | |
The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”.
2019-5-11 04:03 | |
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 | |
Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data.
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
Bitcoin users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot. ” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so.
2019-1-25 01:19 | |
After a bearish year of perennial price swings that culminated in months of tightly wound sideways movement, the (former) bottom has dropped out for bitcoin and the wider crypto market.
2018-11-28 21:44 | |
In what is becoming an emerging trend, Twitter accounts of popular brands are being hacked in an attempt to scam unsuspecting users out of their cryptocurrencies. Target and Google are two high profile targets that have seen their accounts taken over by hackers who, in turn, have used them to scam followers by advertising fraudulent crypto giveaways.
2018-11-15 23:40 | |
According to a report from internet security firm ESET on November 6, bad actors compromised Ireland-based web analytics site StatCounter, in an attempt to steal bitcoin from the customers of a crypto exchange Gate.
2018-11-8 18:48 | |
Malware, a persistent thorn in the side of the internet’s wider community, has become an increasing concern for cryptocurrency users. A problem that comes in many forms, malicious software is leveraged by hackers to rob community members of their funds.
2018-9-18 23:37 | |
As Bitcoin ranges in the $6,000-7,000 range and regains its market dominance, many altcoins are being pushed to their year-to-date lows which is resulting in an overwhelmingly bearish market sentiment.
2018-9-13 01:00 | |
Prospects of ETH Futures might weight negatively on price but it won’t matter. The CFTC would after all have the final say and should they bin it then capital might end up on CME’s BTC futures. Nevertheless, Crypto Facilities of the UK are already offering similar services.
2018-9-4 05:00 | |
In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
Coinfloor, a cryptocurrency exchange that operates multiple subsidiary exchanges, is joining hands with Trading Technologies International, Inc. , a leading trading software provider.
2018-7-19 22:24 | |