XRP Token Plunges Nearly 40% Following the Announcement of SEC Charges Against Ripple

Ripple's XRP has lost almost 40% of its value after the token price dropped from $0.51 on December 21 to $0.31 at the time of writing. T...

Trezor warns of phishing attack targeting users

Trezor has warned users of its hardware wallet about a phishing scam it said was related to an earlier hack on one of its competitors. The c...

ARK Announces Partnership with Magic.Link

As Ark approachs the launch of MarketSquare, we want to give our community an inside look at some of the partnerships we have formed. These ...

South Korea to delay digital currency tax law until January 2022

Digital currency holders in South Korea have been granted an extra three months before a new taxation rule is implemented. The rule was to b...

Waves sets up $3M grant fund to promote cross-chain interoperability

The Waves Association announced on Wednesday a new grant program for cross-chain interoperability development. The pool consists of 1 millio...

Twetch passes 1 million transaction milestone

Twetch, the social media app built on Bitcoin, exceeded 1 million transactions on October 27. This is a remarkable and significant milestone...

Waves and Fantom enter collaboration

Joint work will be focused on developing a broader DeFi ecosystem using the Gravity cross-chain communication protocol. We are excited to an...

BTC escrow firm CEO faces 60 years in jail over alleged $7M scam

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted the operator of a BTC escrow on charges of defrauding two of his clients out of $7 million. Fede...

Lamden Mainnet is Here!

A Technology Delivered We're happy to announce that we've officially launched Lamden mainnet! Today marks a day of independence and ...

Feature from Tech The $55M Hack That Almost Brought Ethereum Down

Bloomberg News reporter Mathew Leising's new book, "Out of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist That ...

Lamden Mainnet is Coming. Lamden Mainnet will be launching on…16 september 2020

The Moment of Truth The wait is almost over; Lamden's mainnet launch is fast approaching. September 16th, 2020 will be an inflection poi...

TECH 26 AUGUST 2020 Patrick Thompson Mitiga, an incident readiness and response company, has discovered that a product available on Amazon Web Services Marketplace contained Monero mining malware. Mitiga published their findings, noting that they discovered the malware when conducting a security audit for a financial services company. “Mitiga’s security research team has identified an AWS Community AMI containing malicious code running an unidentified Monero crypto miner,” according to the Mitiga’s blog post. “We have concerns this may be a phenomenon, rather than an isolated occurrence.” Malware on AWS Marketplace Unfortunately, the AWS marketplace allows anyone to sell virtual services on its marketplace. Although the marketplace is full of verified vendors, it also contains offerings from unverified community members. Mitiga discovered that one community member was selling a Windows 2008 virtual server that secretly used the computing power of anyone who downloa

Mitiga, an incident readiness and response company, has discovered that a product available on Amazon Web Services Marketplace contained Mon...

IRS sends new batch of ‘crypto letters’ to taxpayers

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has sent another batch of its infamous "crypto letter" to individuals suspected of owning digit...

Story from News Goldman Sachs Eyes Own Token as Bank Appoints New Head of Digital Assets

Goldman Sachs is seriously considering its own cryptocurrency, possibly a stablecoin, as it significantly expands its digital assets team an...

Antminer shipping faces delay as Bitmain founders’ row continues

SIC hardware manufacturer Bitmain has delayed the shipping of its block reward miners. An announcement posted on WeChat by the Antminer Sale...

Can blockchain restore trust in technology?

If Bitcoin succeeds in the way its developers and entrepreneurs hope, it will be the biggest change in technology infrastructure since the m...

FBI called to probe Twitter amid fears of future hacks

The FBI is leading an investigation into the July 15 Twitter hack, in which 31 high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised by a hacker an...

Japan’s blockchain industry grows by 30% in 2020

Japan's blockchain industry has been growing rapidly in 2020 despite the economic struggles and the global pandemic. A new report by one...

Police in China detaining digital currency OTC traders: report

China's fight against digital currency trading has now turned to the over-the-counter trading sector. Police in the country have been de...

Story from Markets Outflow of Bitcoin From Miners at Lows Not Seen Since 2010

Miner outflows of bitcoin have dropped to decade lows, with analysts suggesting a hoarding mentality is partly responsible. The seven-day av...

Revolut updated terms allow users ‘beneficial rights’ to digital currency

Challenger bank startup Revolut has amended its terms and conditions, giving users 'beneficial rights' to digital currency bought th...

Korea university to build blockchain and AI campus

A South Korean university has announced that it's building a blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) campus in the city of Daegu. Th...

Instability, high remittance fees drive India digital currency adoption

The instability of the rupee combined with high remittance fees is driving digital currency adoption in India, according to a new report. Th...

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! But don’t think about the fees

Happy Pizza Day! And this year, please make mine extra spicy. Yes, it's May 22 again, the day all Bitcoiners celebrate by ordering a piz...

Justin Sun’s Steem locks user funds

Steem is going to freeze roughly $5 million in Steem tokens that belong to supporters of Hive.IO, a hard forked version of the Steem blockch...

Embattled ABTCoin ICO can’t pay settlement costs

ABTCoin, a digital currency startup that was found guilty of violating federal securities laws, has just told New York federal judge Vernon ...

Fake Libra scams pose new challenge for Facebook

Almost a year after Facebook's Libra was first announced, the outlook for the stablecoin looks starkly different. Once hailed as a game-...

ErisX obtains BitLicense, gets green light to serve New Yorkers

ErisX has become the latest digital currency company to make an entry into New York after Eris Clearing, its clearing and settlement arm, ob...

Bitmain admits hardware problems with Antminer S17

Chinese processing hardware manufacturer Bitmain has admitted there are problems with its Antminer S17, following a growing number of compla...