Reflections on a Swatting: Inside One Bitcoin Engineer’s Security Battle Bitcoin developer and Casa wallet engineer Jameson Lopp recounts his 2017 swatting, and his fight to find his harasser. … Read More
Hitachi Trials Blockchain to Settle Retail Payments Using Just Fingerprints Tech conglomerate Hitachi and teleco giant KDDI are piloting a blockchain payments system that can identify shoppers via their fingerprints alone.… Read More
Decentralized Exchange Waves Scored a $6 Million Debut. Then It Got Hacked This booming crypto platform could hardly be described as institutional, but it isn’t fully decentralized either. … Read More
AMD Sees Q2 Drop in GPU Sales to Crypto Miners GPU sales for cryptocurrency mining fell quarter-over-quarter, AMD announced in its Q2 report on Wednesday.… Read More
US Lawmakers Want FinCEN Mandate to Explicitly Cover Crypto A new bill facing the U.S. Congress would have FinCEN more closely examine the cryptocurrency space, according to public documents.… Read More
SEC Puts Off Decision on 5 Bitcoin ETFs Till September 2018 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has postponed the review of Bitcoin ETFs proposed by investment firm Direxion Asset Management, as it needs more time to study the proposal before reaching a fina…… Read More
Rogue Employee Mined 500K Bitcoins in 2011, Qiwi CEO Says An employee at Qiwi reportedly mined roughly 500,000 bitcoins in 2011 by hijacking the company’s payment terminals, CEO Sergey Solonin said Wednesday.… Read More
Coinbase’s Internal Investigation Finds No Irregularities With Bitcoin Cash Listing In December 2017, Bitcoin Cash made an unexpected price run-up, increasing nearly 25 percent in a matter of days. The increase set the stage for Coinbase’s unprompted listing of Bitcoin Cash on December 19. Withi…… Read More
CFTC Chair Says Regulator Is ‘Behind’ on Blockchain The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is “falling behind” in understanding blockchain technology, chairman Christopher Giancarlo said. … Read More
Mining Giant Bitmain Offers New Policy to Boost Its Transparency Chinese mining company Bitmain has announced it is exploring new policies that will boost the company’s transparency and communication with the cryptocurrency community.In a company statement, Bitmain said, “We b…… Read More