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With Latest Partnership, Ledger Vault Offers a Fix to Crypto’s Custody Problem
Within the sphere of traditional finance, at least, crypto has a custody problem. The problem? Crypto is complicated, security is tricky and — if we’re being frank — the suits don’t know a bit from a byte (or a blockchain from a cloud server). дальше »
2019-4-12 22:03 | |
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How the Mainstream Merchant Ecosystem May Promote Crypto Adoption for Bitcoin Payments
Getting into cryptocurrency isn’t as easy as it seems. There are a number of barriers to entry, such as technical expertise, funds, and the ability to get used to all of the tools and resources available. дальше »
2019-4-9 20:24 | |
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Tallahassee Payroll Account Loses Nearly $500,000 Due to Suspected Cyberattack
Nearly $500,000 has been diverted out of a city of Tallahassee payroll account and the suspected culprit is a cyber attack on the city’s human resources management application. City spokeswoman Alison Faris reported that “There is no indication of any impact to external city customers or vendors.” The funds were supposed to be used for […] дальше »
2019-4-9 14:24 | |
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Cryptocurrency Startup Becomes Japan’s 2nd Billion-Dollar Tech Unicorn
Liquid. com, a Japan-based cryptocurrency platform, announced the successful closure of its Series C fundraising round, which saw the company achieve a total valuation of over US$1 billion — making it one of only two tech unicorns in the country’s startup industry. дальше »
2019-4-4 05:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX should declare bankruptcy, EY says
Defunct cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX’s should enter bankruptcy proceedings in a bid to minimize costs and facilitate the recovery of assets for creditors, according to a report by Ernst & Young (EY), its court appointed monitor. дальше »
2019-4-3 12:23 | |
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In Fourth Report, QuadrigaCX Court Monitor Recommends Bankruptcy Proceedings
QuadrigaCX monitor Ernst & Young suspects that the beleaguered exchange’s late CEO, Gerald Cotten, may have been financing personal expenditures with company funds, and it is now recommending that the assets in Cotten’s estate be placed under a preservation order. дальше »
2019-4-3 01:19 | |
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Pakistan Introduces Crypto Regulation
The Pakistani government will now regulate local cryptocurrency firms under new legislation. Local news outlet The Express Tribune reported that the government of Pakistan will introduce Electronic Money Institutions (EMI) regulations based on the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). дальше »
2019-4-2 01:33 | |
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How safe are cryptocurrency payments?
Cryptocurrencies, according to the dictionary, are “a digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, operating independently of a central bank. дальше »
2019-4-1 17:30 | |
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Coinbase-Backed Stablecoin Claims Rivals Deceptively Pump Market Caps
Touted as the next big thing in crypto, stablecoins promise investors volatility-proof exposure to decentralized assets, but insiders say that this emerging asset class is vulnerable to the same manipulative practices that have tarnished the broader ecosystem. дальше »
2019-3-25 02:30 | |
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Crypto liquidity aggregator CoinDCX gets seed funding from Bain Capital Ventures
CryptoNinjas CoinDCX, an Estonia-domiciled global liquidity aggregator with R&D in Mumbai, India, announced it has raised a seed round of financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. Notable angels, including Sanjay Mehtaand Utsav Somani participated. дальше »
2019-3-21 20:59 | |
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New Zealand Terrorist Claims He Made Money From BitConnect
The perpetrator of the mass killings at New Zealand mosque appears to have funded his life with investments he made in defunct cryptocurrency BitConnect. Tarrant Used BitConnect Funds For ‘Travel’ As various media publications report citing a document which claims to be a manifesto by Brenton Tarrant, cryptocurrency investments allowed him to travel at an unspecified point in the past. дальше »
2019-3-15 15:00 | |
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Chinese Government Officials Targeted With Ransomware, North Korea Suspected
A statement issued by the People’s Government of Yiling District, Yichang has revealed that Chinese officials have been the target of a ransomware email attack in recent days. Also Read: Late Quadrigacx CEO Used Personal Funds to Fulfill Withdrawals Chinese Government Officials Face Ransomware Attack A statement issued by a Chinese provincial government website has […] The post Chinese Government Officials Targeted With Ransomware, North Korea Suspected appeared first on Bitcoin News. дальше »
2019-3-15 03:15 | |
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MIT Bitcoin: Legislators Discuss Regulation, Potential of Blockchain Tech
On March 9–10, 2019, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a two-day event, the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019. Put together by the student-organized MIT Bitcoin Club, the conference welcomed more than just Bitcoin voices from every corner of the industry. дальше »
2019-3-15 01:08 | |
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Bitcoin Auctioned For Over $300,000 Euros After Police Apprehended Drug-Related Crypto Funds
Bitcoin And Similar Tokens Auctioned For Over $330,000 Euros After Police Seizure Many people associate Bitcoin with crimes. This is a twisted vision that is often this way because people do not understand the asset very well, but they know of old stories like the Silk Road, the illegal marketplace in which people used Bitcoin […] дальше »
2019-3-14 00:42 | |
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CipherTrace CEO Becomes First-Ever Bitcoin Expert Witness in $1.4 Million Darkweb Crypto Case
A very high-profile court case involving cryptocurrencies is currently happening in Canada. No, we’re not talking about QuadrigaCX, the exchange which has lost all its funds after its owner died and took the private keys to the clients’ funds with him. дальше »
2019-3-6 23:10 | |
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As Court Reconvenes for QuadrigaCX, Questions Surround Empty Cold Wallets
As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends. дальше »
2019-3-5 20:20 | |
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QuadrigaCX Wallets Found Empty, Mystery of $150 Million Missing Crypto Deepens
The cold wallets of QuadrigaCX, once the largest crypto exchange of Canada, have reportedly been found to be empty. According to Bloomberg, most of the Bitcoin funds from the exchange’s cold wallets were moved out in April 2018, more than 9 months before QuadrigaCX revealed it had lost $150 million in customer funds after its CEO Gerald Cotten passed away with sole control of the company’s wallets. дальше »
2019-3-4 13:21 | |
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How to Use Multisig to Keep Your Coins Ultra-Safe
Multi-signature, or multisig, is a wallet configuration that requires at least two keys to authorize a transaction. Commonly used by cryptocurrency exchanges to ensure funds can’t be moved by a rogue employee, multisig also has applications for end-users. дальше »
2019-3-3 05:20 | |
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Report: Quadriga’s 6 Cold Wallets Have Been Without Funds Since April 2018
Ernst & Young, the court-appointed monitor in the Quadrigacx saga, released a report on March 1 which shows that cold wallets known to have been used by the Canadian exchange have been without funds since April 2018. дальше »
2019-3-2 22:43 | |
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These ‘Biometric Blockchain ATMs’ Scan Your Face to Fight Dark Web Card Fraud
Cutting-edge blockchain ATM prototypes are being rolled out in Saudi Arabia with a unique take on granting users access to funds. The ATMs use biometric scanners to scan the face of each account holder as part of a five-factor authentication process secured by a blockchain app being used by the largest ATM provider in the Middle East. дальше »
2019-3-2 00:32 | |
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Stanford Student Calls Out Crypto Professor for Inaccurate Bitcoin Lecture
In January of 2019, student Conner Brown attended a guest lecture by a Professor Susan Athey at the University of Stanford Graduate School. She gave a presentation to his “Evolution of Finance” class titled “Blockchain and the Future of Finance. дальше »
2019-3-1 03:39 | |
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Grim Stories of Ethical, Privacy Abuses Emerge About Coinbase’s New Partners
When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition. дальше »
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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A Guide to Regulated Crypto Financial Products You Can Trade in 2019
When bitcoin first hit the mainstream media in 2011 when Wired covered the rise of the defunct dark web marketplace Silk Road, it was hard to imagine that the digital currency used to buy drugs on the Internet could become a recognized alternative investment asset that high-net-worth individuals, private banks, and hedge funds are investingRead MoreRead More. дальше »
2019-2-28 02:00 | |
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Decentralized Payment Processor BTCPay Adds New Invoicing Options
Decentralized payment processing service BTCPay Server announced a new service available through their platform on February 22, 2019: a way to request payments by simply sharing a URL, thereby streamlining many of the model’s existing hangups. дальше »
2019-2-27 23:26 | |
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U.S. Government Returns a Fraction of Bitcoins Retrieved From the 2016 Bitfinex Hack
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announced on Feb. 25 via a blog post that the U. S. government has handed over 27 BTC believed to be the proceeds of a hack in which the exchange lost almost 120,000 Bitcoins in a security breach in August 2016. дальше »
2019-2-26 19:29 | |
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QuadrigaCX and the Million Dollar Questions: What We Do and Don’t Know
QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him. дальше »
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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Brian Armstrong Speculates the Death of Quadriga’s CEO Was Used as Cover for Mismanagement
Brian Armstrong, the CEO and co-founder of Coinbase, made a public statement speculating that QuadrigaCX—the exchange that lost $135 million in customer funds—may have used its CEO’s death as cover for earlier mismanagement. дальше »
2019-2-22 12:35 | |
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Coinbase Snaps Up Blockchain Intelligence Startup Neutrino
U. S. -based digital asset platform Coinbase has acquired blockchain intelligence startup Neutrino. The company made the news known earlier today, February 19, 2019, but the cost of the acquisition was not disclosed. дальше »
2019-2-20 23:12 | |
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PANTHEON X ICO
PANTHEON X aims to build a blockchain-based financial platform and a reliable network that allow anyone to trade in a safe and transparent manner. PANTHEON X will maximize the participants’ profit by providing a decentralized smart financial infrastructure. дальше »
2019-2-19 17:33 | |
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Op Ed: Why It’s Unsafe to Store Private Crypto Keys in the Cloud
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. дальше »
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
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NeuralTrade Network ICO
Most people are desperately seeking financial freedom in their life. Sadly financial freedom remains a dream to them or an elusive theory that forever escapes them. The biggest problem around financial freedom is some magic formula or some secret success model that they believe exists, they spend an endless amount of time, effort and even resources in obtaining this magic formula or the secret success model. дальше »
2019-2-15 22:51 | |
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Hold Security Firm Says Crypto Hackers Are Resorting To Using Faked Face Images To Steal Funds
Hackers Implement New Techniques To Steal Cryptocurrency Funds As cryptocurrencies expanded all over the world hackers and stealers have been trying to steal users’ funds in different platforms and implementing a wide range of innovative methods. дальше »
2019-2-15 23:41 | |
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R3 Corda Blockchain Used by Italian Banking Association to Trial Interbank Payment Solution
Blockchain technology is finding ways to be used around the world for various use cases, but perhaps the most obvious use case is in the traditional banking system. Considering the immutability and the ability to track funds, it is surprising that more banks have not integrated it. дальше »
2019-2-13 21:05 | |
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Blockstream Open Sources Development of Its Proof of Reserves Tool
On February 4, 2019, blockchain tech company Blockstream announced the development of a “proof of reserves” tool to standardize the authenticity of exchanges’ crypto reserves. дальше »
2019-2-7 01:01 | |
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Where’s the ‘Missing’ $150 Million? Crypto Exchange QuadrigaCX’s Fiasco Gets Weirder with New Research
According to a cryptocurrency researcher with an online alias “ProofofResearch,” QuadrigaCX may not have a Bitcoin cold wallet nor $150 million in crypto. In a research paper, Zerononcense editor ProofofResearch stated that based on the evaluation of the company’s 31 Bitcoin addresses, no evidence to prove the existence of a cold wallet for QuadrigaCX was found. дальше »
2019-2-5 17:46 | |
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76% of laundered cryptocurrency was washed with an exchange service
An overwhelming majority of 2018’s criminally-connected cryptocurrency was ultimately laundered on basic online exchange services. Blockchain researchers at Chainalysis have calculated that roughly 64 percent of last year’s dodgy cryptocurrency, which amounted to over $1 billion, was washed by simply depositing it onto digital asset exchanges and trading it. дальше »
2019-1-29 15:18 | |
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Graftroot: How Delegating Signatures Allows for Near-Infinite Spending Variations
This article is a direct follow-up from our Taproot explainer. If you haven’t read that article, you should probably do so first. If Taproot is deployed on Bitcoin, many smart contract constructions will look just like regular transactions on the blockchain. дальше »
2019-1-26 01:23 | |
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Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, and How It Will Benefit Bitcoin
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. дальше »
2019-1-25 01:19 | |
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Lightning Network Without Invoices Brings Us Closer to Streaming Money
A new feature for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN) implementation allows users to send funds instantly without needing to first create an invoice. Sphinx Enables ‘New Use Cases’ The latest upgrade, ‘Sphinx,’ which developers describe as being a “work in progress,” is nonetheless already available to anyone. дальше »
2019-1-13 21:00 | |
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‘Crypto Dusting’ Attack Sends Illegally Obtained Bitcoin to Random Cryptocurrency Wallets
Crypto dusting attack, a hack on cryptocurrency wallets is used to distribute laundered money to the wallets of unsuspecting customers, which in turn, affects their reputation and draws the attention of law enforcement, reports DarkReading on January 8, 2019. дальше »
2019-1-11 23:00 | |
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QR Code Fraud Could Result In $50,000 of Stolen Bitcoin Each Year
In the crypto world, it is common knowledge that public keys can be shared freely, as those keys simply represent an address that can be used to receive money. Unlike private keys, public keys cannot be used to withdraw funds from an address. дальше »
2019-1-7 19:58 | |
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200+ Bitcoin Stolen From Electrum Wallet Users Via Hack
The hacker used a malicious update to steal users’ funds.
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