Cryptocurrency

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...