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Thunderstruck: Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Experiences ‘Explosive’ Growth
The Bitcoin scaling solution has gotten bigger.Over 450 bitcoin (BTC) is held among more than 12,000 Lightning Network channels on the Bitcoin mainnet, according...
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The Exodus 1 And The FINNEY: A ‘Quiet Revolution’ Or Just Quiet?
December 6, 2018 10:21 PMHTC and Sirin Labs look to increase mainstream adoption of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency through smartphones.Launching just over a month...
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ConsenSys Sacrifices 13 Percent Of Its Employees In New Business Strategy
December 6, 2018 10:36 PMAmid Crypto Winter, many projects are cutting back. ConsenSys has historically bragged about its almost infinite funding, but apparently even...
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Mediterranean EU Countries Agree To Push Blockchain Adoption
December 6, 2018 12:13 AMSeven countries, including France and Malta, put their weight behind the "Southern European Countries Ministerial Declaration on Distributed Ledger Technologies."France,...
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Crypto Exchange Orionx Loses Chilean Supreme Court Appeal
December 6, 2018 12:23 AMThe company sought to have its account reinstated after being dropped by BancoEstado earlier this year, but that’s not going...
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Researchers Provide Model To Detect ‘Pump-And-Dump’ Schemes Before They Occur
Jiahua Xi and Benjamin Livshits of Imperial College London have used an algorithm to detect signs of an imminent scam.In findings that could prevent...
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Japan’s National Tax Agency Works To Prevent Crypto Tax Evasion
December 4, 2018 11:49 PMThe tax regulator seeks to tighten its grip during the country’s 2019 tax reformation restructuring.According to a report in Japanese...
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New Swiss FinTech License Requirements For Blockchain-Based Firms
The “crypto-nation” continues to support the development of FinTech businesses by instituting "relaxed" license requirements.Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), the country's financial regulator,...
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GhostAction compromises two top GitHub devs, hits 340 repos
Two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts were compromised, pushing a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories.The GhostAction campaign has stolen...
OCC fines AmEx $350M over $13B money laundering
The OCC found American Express National Bank processed approximately $13 billion in suspected trade-based money laundering from June 2014...
AnyDesk Linux pre-auth RCE exploit gives root access
Security researchers published AnyPwn, a working exploit for a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw in AnyDesk Linux that grants...
