2019-11-20 23:39 |
A researcher was able to uncover 96% transactions of Mimblewimble’s privacy-centric coin Grin using $60 per week on AWS
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Dragonfly Research's Ivan Bogatyy recently published a blog post expanding on how he 'broke' MimbleWimble. The researcher elaborated on how he used merely $60 every week of AWS spend [Amazon cloud comThe post Litecoin's Charlie Lee, Grin developers respond to attack on MimbleWimble appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-19 16:00 | |
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With a leak of at least 23,000 emails, the recent BitMEX email leak was much heavier than expected. An inadvertent message that included lists of emails made the rounds last week, creating a security break for the largest crypto derivatives exchange.
2019-11-4 15:07 | |
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Last week, Uber recently rolled out a bunch of safety features including an optional PIN number to authenticate your ride. But it might roll out more stuff soon. According to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, the ride-hailing company is testing a feature in its mobile app that lets you record audio if you feel uncomfortable during your trip.
2019-10-1 08:08 | |
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Libra to serve as a cautionary tale for Binance’s Venus The exchange is planning to launch an independent association in charge of stablecoin project Instead of Western companies, Venus’ geographic scope aligns with Beijing's infrastructure initiative Last week, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced its upcoming project, Venus. With that the Mata-based crypto platform […]
2019-8-31 18:23 | |
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Last week, video conferencing app Zoom had to make a major change to its service to fix a frightening webcam vulnerability. But new evidence disclosed by security researcher Karan Lyons shows that other conferencing apps like RingCentral and Zhumu are susceptible to the same issue.
2019-7-16 09:22 | |
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Apple has pushed a silent update to Mac users to remove the web server sneakily installed by popular video conference app Zoom, TechCrunch reports. Earlier this week, a disclosure by security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh revealed how Zoom installed a secret local web server on Mac devices — with an intent to save an extra click — but left users vulnerable by making it possible for an attacker to hijack their webcams.
2019-7-11 08:41 | |
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According to Charlie Bilello, an investor and a finance researcher, Ethereum is being traded with substantial premiums above spot value through Grayscale’s Ethereum Investment Trust (ETHE). Grayscale's Ethereum Trust started trading last week.
2019-6-29 17:43 | |
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About the author: Ali is an independent cryptocurrency researcher based in Iran. By CCN: LocalBitcoins. com, the world’s most-popular peer-to-peer bitcoin trading platform, has begun restricting its service for Iranian users this week.
2019-5-23 12:42 | |
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By CCN. com: Within three hours, the bitcoin price surged from $5,682 to $5,910 on Coinbase, a leading regulated crypto exchange that operates in the U. S. market, reaching a new 2019 high. In the past week, the bitcoin price has soared by more than 11 percent, allowing the rest of the crypto market to add $20 billion to its market capitalization.
2019-5-7 10:11 | |
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Analysts Lean Bullish (Almost) Across The Board Last week, Willy Woo, a prominent crypto researcher, released what has to be the biggest collection of analyst opinions in a while. According to the data he gathered,.
2019-4-29 04:00 | |
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About 80,000 eth held in DAI collaterals has been sold or withdrawn in the past week as MakerDAO (MKR) holders move to raise the DAI issuance fee yet again. A...
2019-4-20 17:20 | |
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While Blockstream’s researcher Andrew Poelstra will speak of Schnorr Signatures this May at the nicely named Magical Crypto Conference, part of Consensus Blockchain week, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) will be celebrating.
2019-3-17 14:49 | |
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It’s no secret that Facebook doesn’t respect your privacy in the least: we learned last October that the company used the phone number you provided for two-factor authentication to enable advertisers to target you.
2019-3-4 12:04 | |
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Square Could Spark Widespread Bitcoin Adoption Earlier this week, Ethereum World News reported that Square, a fintech startup based out of San Francisco, had sold millions worth of Bitcoin (BTC) over fiscal 2018.
2019-3-2 09:05 | |
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We’re just over two weeks into 2019, and one of the biggest data leaks in recent years has surfaced. Today, renowned security researcher Troy Hunt reported a massive leak consisting of 773 million unique email IDs and 21 million unique passwords, which he refers to as Collection #1.
2019-1-17 10:55 | |
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The crypto-jacking epidemic continues this week with news that 415,000 routers have been infected with crypto mining malware. The targeted routers were quietly hijacked to mine cryptocurrency without alerting users.
2018-12-5 02:50 | |
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Videoconferencing is almost always terrible at the best of times, but can you imagine someone taking control of your screen during a meeting and sending inappropriate messages to the other attendees? Zoom patched this kind of vulnerability in the desktop app for its video chat service last week to save people from a conference call from hell.
2018-12-4 15:44 | |
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It seems we might never win the battle against fake cryptocurrency apps on Google’s Play Store, as another four have been identified this week. The apps were masquerading on the Play Store as cryptocurrency wallets for NEO, Tether, and MetaMask.
2018-11-14 18:09 | |
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An Australian researcher has received a prestigious award from the nation’s top computer society, specifically for his pioneering contributions to anonymizing cryptocurrency transactions. Associate Professor Joseph Liu of Monash University has been named the Australian Computer Society’s (ACS) researcher of the year at its annual disruptor awards last week.
2018-11-8 16:29 | |
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As a follow-up to last week’s Bitcoinist article on sh*tcoins and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), Bitcoinist looks at crypto researcher Steven Zheng’s numbers, successful-to-unsuccessful ICO ratio, and more.
2018-9-16 16:00 | |
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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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According to Kevin Rooke, a crypto researcher, ICO’s are the main cause of Ethereum’s price decline. In a tweet, Kevin pointed out that this week alone, ICOs have dumped about $30 million in ETH (153,000 ETH), and that’s way more than it has ever happened in a week since March.
2018-9-12 22:37 | |
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Altcoin markets are witnessing upheaval September 11 as Ethereum (ETH) sees major sell-offs from ICOs and Dogecoin generates altcoins’ second-biggest transaction volumes. Dogecoin ‘Envy Of The Crypto World’ Data uploaded to Twitter by cryptocurrency researcher Kevin Rooke shows the abrupt rise of DOGE after developers released the coin’s long-awaited Ethereum bridge beta September 5.
2018-9-11 18:00 | |
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An increasing number of blockchain companies are flocking to the initial coin offering (ICO) market to initiate token sales and raise millions of dollars in an unregulated market. According to several local projects, brokers are demanding millions of dollars to be paid out for unconditional listings.
2018-8-14 22:00 | |
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Investors of KuCoin, a major crypto exchange, are expressing their concerns regarding the mysterious disappearance of KuCoin headquarters in Hong Kong. Where Did KuCoin Go? Earlier this week, Jackson Wong, a cryptocurrency researcher and journalist based in Hong Kong, released an investigative report on the headquarters of KuCoin, which are supposed to be based in […] The post Vanishing KuCoin Office Worry Investors, Fate of Major Crypto Exchange appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-8-13 10:00 | |
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Until just a few days ago, the interface of the betting market Augur was compromised in a way that could have allowed attackers to replace every bit of information on the platform—and users would not have been able to tell the difference.
2018-8-9 06:35 | |
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Last week Nic Carter, the partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder of Coinmetrics. io, published an interesting study that looks at the ever-changing narratives tied to Bitcoin technology.
2018-8-8 01:35 | |
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Earlier this week, the presence of a new crypto mining malware was discovered named ZombieBoy. This malware started mining initially at $1000 per month. The existence of this threat was revealed by a Private security researcher, James Quinn Tweet by Latest Hacking News: “ZombieBoy: New Crypto-Mining Malware Exploits Multiple CVEs” ZombieBoy was named after its use […]
2018-8-4 20:57 | |
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John McAfee threw down the gauntlet last week when claiming his newly-created Bitcoin wallet, Bitfi, was “unhackable. ” It took security researchers less than a week to hack it. As of yesterday, a Dutch security researcher known as “OverSoft” claimed to have root access to McAfee’s unhackable wallet.
2018-8-3 01:28 | |
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Bitcoin may still be significantly undervalued due to mainstream investors missing its “value proposition,” a Swiss researcher has concluded. ‘Only Viable Candidate For Non-Sovereign Store Of Value’ Thomas Huber — a member of the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at the Department of Management, Technology and Economics at ETH Zurich university — made the claims as part of ongoing research into cryptocurrency markets this week.
2018-7-28 01:00 | |
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The priorities of Bitcoiners are starting to shift in the wrong direction, and represent an actual existential threat to the success of a censorship resistant and resilient system.
Monero price has rallied for five consecutive weeks and is trading at levels last seen in April 2022. Monero (XMR), the largest privacy-focused cryptocurrency, was seen trading at $220.70 on Thursday Jan. 23, up by 113% from its lowest level…
For all the bright promises, the path forward is not without obstacles—and I’m here to focus on the challenges that come along for the ride in 2025
Bitcoin (BTC) whales have been accumulating BTC through privacy transactions for more than two years, according to CryptoQuant CEO and co-founder Ki Young Ju. Ki assessed the average number of transactions passing through CoinJoin, an anonymization service, and discovered that the number had tripled this cycle.
As the crypto industry experiences lower volumes, here are our top cryptocurrencies to watch this week: HYPE, Horizen and IMX.
Zac Williamson is the co-founder and CEO of Aztec, a privacy-first Layer 2 solution on Ethereum.
The following is a guest article from Matthew Niemerg, co-founder of Aleph Zero. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a landmark ruling yesterday that could fundamentally reshape how cryptocurrency protocols are regulated.