Tagged: bitcoin

February 13, 2019 @ 2:16 am By Cali Haan  |  

Unsecured databases hosted on the free and open-source cross-platform database MongoDB are still being attacked by hackers demanding Bitcoin ransoms, says Zero Day, albeit less effectively than before. Reports of hack exploitation of MongoDB data first surfaced in December 2016, “when hackers realized they could extort… Read More

February 12, 2019 @ 2:43 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bitcoin advocates and companies like Ripple have long been critical of slow and expensive cross-border money transfer services provided by banks and other traditional firms. Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse presides over a vast sum of publicly-tradable XRP crypto tokens which the company has used to… Read More

February 9, 2019 @ 2:03 am By Cali Haan  |  

Child porn has been permanently logged on a code copy of the Bitcoin blockchain called “Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision” (BSV), The Next Web reports. BSV was created last year in yet another contentious “forking” of Bitcoin after the team behind Bitcoin Cash broke up and Craig… Read More

February 8, 2019 @ 2:51 am By Cali Haan  |  

A software developer with a background in using multiple small computers to analyze the human genome is building a master blockchain surveillance tool for Google he hopes will show what their real use is, Forbes reports. According to Forbes, Google has so far been behind… Read More

February 8, 2019 @ 1:44 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bankers at Korea’s central bank, the Bank of Korea, have issued one of the most decisive warnings against the creation of a central bank-backed cryptocurrency so far, The Korea Times reports. International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde called last year for an “even-handed approach” to… Read More

February 7, 2019 @ 3:38 am By Cali Haan  |  

Veteran cryptographer Bruce Schneier has strongly attacked “trust automation” value claims by blockchain advocates in a piece published in Wired this week called, “There’s No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology.” He also called cryptocurrencies “useless” to anyone but spectators and criminals: “Honestly, cryptocurrencies are useless…. Read More

February 6, 2019 @ 3:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Coinbase announced on Tuesday it is now offering Bitcoin support on its Coinbase Wallet service. Coinbase reported that users may now store their Bitcoin directly in the Coinbase Wallet app, which already supports Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and more than 100,000 different ERC20 tokens, and ERC721 collectibles… Read More

February 6, 2019 @ 9:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Aave, a UK-based tech company which specializes in the development of decentralized and hybrid blockchain applications, announced on Wednesday the launch of bitcoin on its crypto lending marketplace platform, ETHLend. According to Aave,  ETHLend is a lending peer to peer marketplace where users can borrow money using their… Read More

February 6, 2019 @ 2:21 am By Cali Haan  |  

Three large banks in Japan, players in the country’s “crowded” payments market, have decided to abandon a cooperative pilot undertaken in 2017 to create a peer-to-peer remittance network, Nikkei Asian Review (NAR) reports. The three banks- Mizuho Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group– will… Read More

February 5, 2019 @ 12:05 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Claims by current operators of the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX that the company has “lost” cold wallets containing more than $150 million in crypto are being disputed by a researcher at the Zerononsense blog. QuadrigaCX filed for creditor protection last week, and according to Zerononsense,… Read More

February 5, 2019 @ 10:26 am By Cali Haan  |  

A young “crypto anarchist” going by the name of “John Galton” who claimed to be fleeing marijauna-related charges in the US has been shot dead in his home in Acapulco, NBC San Diego reports. The young man’s male friend , Jason Henza, 43, was reportedly… Read More

February 3, 2019 @ 12:08 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Oakland, California resident Sandford Bemi Faison is being held on charges alleging he tried to buy a toxic chemical on the Dark Net in order to poison his estranged spouse, The Los Angeles Times reports. The intended victim is also the mother of the accused’s two… Read More

February 3, 2019 @ 10:53 am By Cali Haan  |  

Joel Ortiz, a 20-year-old California college student, has accepted a plea deal and has agreed to a sentence of 10 years for stealing $5 million in cryptocurrencies from victims he robbed via SIM-swap hack, Motherboard reports. Ortiz will be sentenced on March 14, and it… Read More

February 1, 2019 @ 10:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wikipedia operated nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, has formed a partnership with Bitcoin payments processor Bitpay to accept Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash donations. According to the duo, all of the Wikimedia Foundation’s work is driven by its vision to create a world in which everyone can freely share in… Read More

February 1, 2019 @ 3:52 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bitfury, one of the world’s largest cryptomining  and “blockchain-services” firms has announced it is partnering with the Korea-based company Commons Foundation, “to open and operate Bitcoin transaction processing centers in Paraguay as part of the foundation’s “Golden Goose” initiative to expand cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation… Read More

January 31, 2019 @ 2:45 am By Cali Haan  |  

A nurse from Rancho Cordova, California, has been arrested by federal agents in the US and charged with conspiracy and distribution of fentanyl for allegedly selling more than 20 ooo prescription opioid pills and patches over the Dark Net for bitcoins, The Sacramento Bee reports…. Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 3:51 am By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers may have created a fake LocalBitcoin forum page for the popular global peer-to-peer Bitcoins trading service LocalBitcoins, thereby conning “a number” of affected users out of disclosing the info needed to steal their digital coins. According to a report from LocalBitcoins on Reddit, the… Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 2:42 am By Cali Haan  |  

JP Morgan analysts have written that the main value of cryptocurrencies would be in situations of “dystopia” where investors have, “lost faith in all major reserve assets (dollar, euro, yen, gold) and in the payments system,” Business Insider reports. According to “a note dated January 24th,”… Read More

January 25, 2019 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has always been an active participant in the crypto industry but typically this engagement has been more in the form of commentary. This week, researchers at MIT have dived into crypto by creating the ability to build a better… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 9:28 am By Cali Haan  |  

VanEck has withdrawn it’s its SEC application for a rule change that would allow the company to list a Bitcoin ETF on the Cboe exchange. According to the relevant release from the SEC, VanEck first filed for the rule change on June 20th of last… Read More