2026-1-13 19:53 |
Social engineering will not disappear, but we can make it far less effective and far less catastrophic when attacks occur. origin »
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President Donald Trump’s support for stablecoins may be less about blockchain innovation and more about financial engineering, according to Mateusz Kara, CEO of European crypto payments giant Ari10. The launch of USD1, a new dollar-pegged stablecoin backed by U.S. President…
2025-3-27 23:28 | |
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It used to be that tying someone’s shoes together was a nasty prank, but now it’s a performance-enhancing feat of bio-mechanical engineering. A team of researchers and engineers at Stanford University have developed a radical new method to increase the running efficiency of humans: they put a rubber band between a pair of shoes.
2019-10-10 23:57 | |
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Mozilla has patched its Firefox browser for a second time in response to a spearphishing campaign targeting employees of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, ZDNet reports. According to ZDNet, hackers have been attempting to phish Coinbase staff with emails containing links to malicious websites.
2019-6-21 15:08 | |
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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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“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
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The BMW marque is synonymous with German build quality and engineering prowess. It didn’t earn that respect overnight; BMW has been manufacturing and innovating automotive components for over 100 years.
2019-4-26 17:18 | |
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Minisketch is a new solution that’s trying to solve an old problem. Spearheaded by Blockstream co-founder Pieter Wuille, Bitcoin Core contributor and fellow Blockstream co-founder Gregory Maxwell, and Blockstream software engineer Gleb Naumenko, the open-source initiative is designed to achieve set reconciliation between the mempools of each full node.
2018-12-18 18:48 | |
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Cardano, the platform underpinning ADA, the ninth largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is opening its doors to third-party developers through a new client, written in systems programing language Rust.
2018-10-2 16:45 | |
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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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For many, the complex nature of crypto investing is an unsolvable enigma. Despite the potential for great returns, many are hesitant to jump in and navigate the complexities and uncertainties inherent in this space.
2018-7-25 17:09 | |
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Braille books are big. Dauntingly so. For example, when Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was translated into the system, it was over 1,000 pages across 14 volumes of thick paper. Well, researchers at Harvard have taken a big step into making this a thing of the past with reprogrammable braille.
2018-7-25 15:30 | |
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The Bitcoin movement has brought with it a tidal wave of activity in cryptocurrency investments and trading. As a result, crypto market capitalization soared to an all-time high of around $820 billion in early January of 2018.
2018-7-13 17:51 | |
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X's Smart Cashtags could enhance financial transparency and influence market dynamics by providing precise asset tracking and live pricing. The post Elon Musk’s X to launch Smart Cashtags for accurate asset tracking and live pricing appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Quantum risk is accelerating. The market is adjusting. The clock is ticking, and the industry must move before time runs out.
Tokenized deposits could revolutionize financial systems by enhancing liquidity, efficiency, and programmable payments in institutional finance. The post BNY rolls out tokenized deposits to enhance real-time payments and settlement appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Finance is about to become programmable, verifiable, and borderless by default — the way the internet itself already is.
The less visible the crypto infrastructure is, the more powerful it becomes, and that will be the real fulfillment of all decentralized tech promises.
With banks, payments giants, corporates, and regulators aligned, stablecoins are on track to become the backbone of global finance.