2018-9-25 07:40 |
In the wake of a severe code vulnerability, bitcoin developers are asking if current code review processes are enough to prevent further failures.
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An analysis of Bitcoin QR code generators reveals the precarious state of basic security in the cryptocurrency sphere. A report from ZenGo shows four out of the top five QR code generators listed on Google’s front page are controlled by scammers.
2019-8-31 00:32 | |
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CoinDesk dives deep into the complex process of reviewing code for the Bitcoin Core software.
2019-7-20 15:00 | |
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A long-in-the-works proposal heralded as the best way to bring sidechains to bitcoin has released its first code after three years in development.
2018-9-25 19:00 | |
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The news of a software bug being found in the codebase of Bitcoin might have gone unnoticed by many crypto enthusiasts last week. Many conspiracy theories have been put forth as to why the news was not popularized by mainstream media in a manner similar or equal to how the Bitcoin ETF standoff at the […] The post Bitcoin (BTC) HODLers Urged to Review its Code More Often appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-9-25 12:01 | |
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Bitcoin Core developers acknowledged a potentially devastating vulnerability in the code of the original cryptocurrency and appealed to miners to upgrade to their newly issued patch with immediate effect.
2018-9-23 07:56 | |
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Earlier on in the week, the crypto and blockchain community was made aware of a bug in the Bitcoin Core code. The vulnerability affected versions 0. 16. 3 and 0. 17. 0rc4 of the code behind the famous blockchain network.
2018-9-22 15:45 | |
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On the most recent episode of Let’s Talk Bitcoin!, the hosts discuss the now-defunct Bitcoin Alert system, devised by Satoshi himself. A rarity in the podcast space, this episode’s exploration involved no guest appearances, instead relying on the wealth of experience that Adam B.
2018-9-22 22:58 | |
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For well over a year, versions of Bitcoin Core — Bitcoin’s leading software implementation — contained a severe software bug. The bug was fixed with Bitcoin Core 0.
2018-9-22 21:22 | |
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In an open letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the U. S. House’s Committee on Ways and Means argues that the tax collection body is leaving investors in the lurch with its vague cryptocurrency tax codes.
2018-9-21 23:35 | |
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Monero’s Riccardo Says He Picked Monero Because It Is Not Based on the Bitcoin Code Riccardo Spagni, a core member of Monero team, was on an episode of Whatbitciondid. During the interview, he spoke extensively about Monero.
2018-9-20 07:57 | |
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Despite having given up on Bitcoin as a payment method, the co-founder of the popular online payment processor remains “excited” about the payments use cases of cryptocurrencies. “Long-Term Potential” Stripe, the online payment processor for internet businesses, ended its support for Bitcoin BTC in January 2018.
2018-9-19 09:00 | |
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This week Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fans were pleased to hear another well-known merchant is now supporting BCH for payments. The South Korea-based food dispatch platform called Shuttle Delivery now accepts BCH for door-to-door meal deliveries throughout the Seoul region.
2018-9-17 20:55 | |
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This week a blockchain researcher named Alex Lebed published a code review on the new stablecoin, the gemini dollar, created by the Gemini Trust cryptocurrency firm. According to Lebed’s study, gemini dollar accounts can be frozen by the exchange, and the tokens can be turned into non-transferable assets.
2018-9-16 06:25 | |
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Cryptocurrency–Hard forks for top of the market coins have had a quiet 2018 compared to last year. The second half of 2017 saw the creation of Bitcoin Cash, forked from the original BTC code commonly referred to as Core, which has led the currency to a position of fourth by total market capitalization, worth nearly […] The post New Study: Hard Forks Dangerous to Cryptocurrency Stability appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-9-15 22:43 | |
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An alpha version of the new Lightning desktop app has been released. The application includes a redesigned and optimized backend for light clients, as well as a simplified interface for users with little to no cryptocurrency experience.
2018-9-15 21:22 | |
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In a couple of years, we may look back at July 9, 2018, as the second most tragic day in Ethereum history after the 2016 split of Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. On this day, Bancor, a decentralized exchange service, got hacked and lost its users’ 23.
2018-9-15 19:59 | |
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Bitcoin Press Release: AML BitCoin (ABTC) continues its banner inaugural year by being listed on one of the world’s largest digital currency exchanges, HitBTC. September 14th, 2018. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
2018-9-14 10:30 | |
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A report published by Chinese media has alleged that more than 80% of alternative cryptocurrencies are comprised of “plagiarizing code. ” The report analyzed 488 different cryptocurrencies, finding that the code underpinning more than 90% of the projects shared a similarity score of at least 80%.
2018-9-12 14:05 | |
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Ethereum is embracing the Constantinople milestone at the end of November 2018, after DevCon4 in Prague. Constantinople is the latest Ethereum release, introduced through a hard fork, that will include five Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs):Bitwise shifting instructions (EIP 145) in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) allow for direct manipulation of bytes on the EVM layer.
2018-9-11 18:15 | |
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Two crypto companies, Gemini Trust and Paxos, got a green light from a New York state regulator to launch their own stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U. S. dollar. New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) gave an okay to Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, to launch Gemini Dollar (GUSD).
2018-9-11 01:58 | |
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Head of the trading platform Abra Bill Barhydt decided to share his "musing" on why "bitcoin ETFs haven't been approved yet and when they will be."
2018-9-11 18:05 | |
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Citigroup Insider Shares Citi is Working on a Bitcoin ‘Security’ Product, Aims to Be the Leading Company Citigroup is working in order to launch a new Bitcoin trading product to the market. The main intention is to be ahead of its Tier I banking rivals around the world. The information has been released by some […]
2018-9-10 02:31 | |
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Ever since the Verge (XVG) network was hacked back in May, and millions of dollars of the digital asset fraudulently minted, there has been an effort by the project’s core developers to change the codebase of the platform.
2018-9-5 19:34 | |
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A draft law designed to amend California’s legislation to create legal grounds for the implementation of crypto-related technologies has been passed by the state’s legislature. Assembly Bill 2658 amends the California Civil Code, Government Code, Corporations Code, and Insurance Code to legalize the use of blockchain secured data and smart contracts in local and foreign […] The post California Passes Bill Defining Blockchain and Crypto Terms appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-9-3 14:05 | |
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The cryptocurrency market may have experienced a flat run over the course of 2018 thus far with Bitcoin prices failing to break through the $10,000 barrier since early March, but new research published by ING demonstrates that adoption rates are rising rapidly.
2018-9-2 15:00 | |
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This Wednesday Nchain published the much anticipated Bitcoin SV codebase. The alpha released was done in order to show the code to miners and pool operators. Additionally, a mining pool called ‘SV Pool’ was announced which allows miners to point their hashrate at the SV client. The company says they expect to distribute a more […]
2018-8-30 18:21 | |
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Over the course of the last two weeks, many Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents were waiting for the firm Nchain to publish its Bitcoin SV codebase. Then on Wednesday, August 29, the company published its alpha release in order to show the code to miners and pool operators.
2018-8-30 08:55 | |
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For every problem that smart contracts solve, they seem to introduce another. In a week in which EOS has made news for all the wrong reasons over a RAM vulnerability, a code auditor has revealed the prevalence of smart contract bugs.
2018-8-29 18:55 | |
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Many people know bitcoin as an anonymous digital currency, one whose privacy features prime it for concealed payments in sketchy recesses of the internet’s dark web.
2018-8-29 17:33 | |
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What is BitcoinToken? A Tool for Smart Contracts in Bitcoin Cash BitcoinToken is a new tool for developers that are trying to build tokens, and smart contracts, using Bitcoin Cash’s network. The platform works in a very simple way, as writing smart contracts in assembly code. It is also possible to use predefined libraries and […]
2018-8-27 20:41 | |
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George Popescu has come down hard on the American Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U. S. tax code in general as stifling instead of enabling innovation through cryptocurrency adoption. In a Medium post published on August 22, 2018, the founder of crypto industry publication Blockchain Times and augmented reality startup Lampix stated that tax policy is effectively blocking crypto payments.
2018-8-25 01:00 | |
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Bitcoin cash devs are fighting over what code changes to make next. If no one compromises, hard-forked coin could itself split into two.
2018-8-24 07:00 | |
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On the last hot summer days, Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Stockholm offers a discount of €90 to the tickets! Just go to the registration page, enter SUMMERBTC promo code and buy tickets at a lower price! The special offer will last from August 20 until August 24. Ticket price without a discount – €240. Ticket […]
2018-8-24 01:29 | |
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The changes to the network will be made in a planned November 15 hard fork, and the code is already available for anyone in the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem.
2018-8-21 11:29 | |
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Just over one year ago, the original Bitcoin network was split into two chains in a ‘hard fork’ event, where individuals looking for something new altered Bitcoin’s open-source code to create Bitcoin Cash.
2018-8-21 00:08 | |
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Matt Liu, Josh Fraser and former PayPal head Yu Pan want to bring the blockchain to the sharing economy. The trio is devising a platform with an emphasis on inclusive, peer-to-peer service hubs designed to decentralize the same consumer cost-friendly business models that have made companies like Airbnb, Uber and Lyft so popular in recent years.
2018-8-16 23:25 | |
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The Parisian artist, Pascal Boyart, has made headlines this week, boosting his fame and finances in style by introducing his own unique tipping system to his pieces of artwork. By adding a QR code to his projects, crypto savvy patrons of his art can scan and sent cryptocurrency to the artists digital wallet. This QR […]
2018-8-13 19:38 | |
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NEM (“out-of-the-box”, enterprise-grade blockchain platform”) and Unibright (“blockchain agnostic integration framework”) are teaming up and start an official strategic partnership. NEM and Unibright start a strategic partnership by adding NEM oriented code generation to the Unibright framework and adding Unibright to the NEMsp Program.
2018-8-13 12:30 | |
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After anonymously notifying Bitcoin ABC developers in April of a critical ‘chain-splitting’ bug in the Bitcoin Cash code, a Bitcoin Core developer has emerged to claim responsibility for the discovery — what he describes as a “wake-up call” for the entire cryptocurrency industry.
2018-8-13 21:52 | |
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Even though cryptocurrency investments offer exciting profit opportunities, many people just don't have the risk tolerance to handle high volatility, numerous theft cases, computer code bugs, and human errors.
2018-8-12 02:00 | |
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First, let’s remember Satoshi’s words: “We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust” Snapping back to reality and lest we forget, cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin are alternatives to the government backed fiat currencies.
2018-8-11 17:31 | |
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The regulators have awoken. SEC Director William Hinman introduced novel concepts to the securities law analysis such that sellers of digital assets may have an escape valve.
2018-8-10 22:24 | |
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Bitcoin Core developer Cory Fields discovered a critical vulnerability in the Bitcoin Cash code. And it was a long way for him to find an appropriate way to contact BCH developers and inform them anout the bug.
2018-8-12 21:53 | |
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ZCash (ZEC) is a popular source code fork of Bitcoin (BTC), just like Litecoin (LTC). The purpose of its creation was to address privacy issues that users of Bitcoin (BTC) faced and also to curb centralization with its Equihash based proof of work model.
2018-8-10 17:07 | |
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Cryptocurrency industry and community figures are reacting after it emerged a Bitcoin Core developer fixed a “critical” bug in the code for the Bitcoin Cash hard fork. Fields: Bug ‘Would Have Split’ Chain In a blog post August 10th, Corey Fields relates how in April 2018 he anonymously reported the consensus bug, known as SIGHASH_BUG.
2018-8-10 16:00 | |
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On Thursday, August 9, a developer and researcher in the crypto industry detailed the difficulties he had communicating a vulnerability in the Bitcoin Cash protocol to their dev team. Cory Fields from the Digital Currency Initiative at MIT Media Lab in Massachusetts outlined the issue in a post on his Medium blog.
2018-8-10 12:02 | |
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Pascal Boyart has integrated the idea of digital currencies as he navigates the world of street art in Paris.
2018-8-9 16:16 | |
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The exact scope of the software updates to be implemented in November will become known in a few days.
2018-8-9 13:15 | |
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A Japanese cybersecurity firm has found Bitcoin ATM malware accompanied by a card with a malicious code for sale on an underground forum
2018-8-9 04:49 | |
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The bug was found before Sui mainnet was live and the foundation granted a $500,000 award for the discovery.
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The developers of Bitcoin Core just fixed a bug that could have brought down the whole Bitcoin network. Cobra, the anonymous Co-owner of bitcoin. org and bitcointalk. org, thinks this bug was a big deal.