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Japan’s Zaif Crypto Exchange loses about $59.7 Million in Fresh Hack

The continuous news of hacking of cryptocurrency exchanges has grown this year when compared to previous years in the cryptocurrency industry. It started with Coincheck a cryptocurrency exchange in Japan where about $500 million worth of NEM token was stolen and now another cryptocurrency exchange in Japan, Zaif exchange in the news after a hack […] The post Japan’s Zaif Crypto Exchange loses about $59.7 Million in Fresh Hack appeared first on ZyCrypto. дальше »

2018-9-20 13:43


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Japan lost over $540M in cryptocurrency hacks in first half of 2018

Hackers have swiped over $540 million (60 billion Yen) worth of cryptocurrency from Japanese netizens over the first six months of 2018. On September 20, Japan’s National Police Agency revealed the number of cryptocurrency-related reported incidents rose to 158 – triple the amount of incidents over the same period last year, local outlet The Asahi Shimbun reports. дальше »

2018-9-20 11:47


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New Study: Hard Forks Dangerous to Cryptocurrency Stability

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. дальше »

2018-9-15 22:43


Cryptocurrency Exchanges Are Fundamentally Flawed: Imperfections To Fix?

The Mt. Gox disgrace which took place in 2014 saw the advent of thefts and hacks, which have characterized a number of crypto exchanges, with the most recent occurring early this year. In this particular scandal, approximately $500 million worth of clients’ virtual assets disappeared from Coincheck, a Japan based crypto exchange. Apart from these […] дальше »

2018-9-2 12:15


Research Shows Ethereum Blockchain Miners Get Paid Almost $2.5 Billion per Year

Research Reveals That Ethereum Miners Make $2.5 Billion On An Annual basis While the prices of Ethereum have been faltering and its network faced with endless scalability challenges, investors who mine the second largest digital currency somehow managed to rake in an annual payout worth a whopping $2.5 billion. As per a report published by […] дальше »

2018-8-20 19:56


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Apple says teen who hacked its network didn’t compromise customer data

Seeking to reassure customers after the news of repeated breaches of its network broke yesterday, Apple said that no user data was compromised in the attacks, reports Reuters. The statement follows the 16-year-old Melbourne-based student’s appearance in court: according to statements by his lawyer, he had broken into Apple’s mainframe multiple times over the course of a year, and downloaded 90GB of files. дальше »

2018-8-17 09:19


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How a Finnish millionaire lost $35M worth of Bitcoin in a gambling scam

Is your cryptocurrency portfolio looking a little light lately? That’s nothing compared to one Finnish investor, who lost 5,500 Bitcoin ($35 million) to an investment scam this year. Bangkok Post reports that businessman Aarni Otava Saarimaa was approached by a group who sought to link him up with some hot investments: shares in a few high-profile companies and a cryptocurrency called Dragon Coin. дальше »

2018-8-13 13:05


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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


Top 5 Threats Keeping Cybersecurity Professionals Up at Night

If you’d asked any cybersecurity professional around this time last year what the greatest threat to cybersecurity was, they’d have undoubtedly said ransomware. Now worth over a billion dollars a year (and rising), with attacks like WannaCry and Petya/NotPetya wreaking havoc, every expert worth their salt was planning ways to stay ahead of the hackers. […] дальше »

2018-7-14 05:00


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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name. дальше »

2018-7-13 17:16