Cryptocurrency

A sophisticated phishing operation targeting MyEtherWallet users netted criminals more than $15,000 in just hours last week. The attack came to light when security specialist Wesley Neelen discovered

Tokyo's SBI Group is making a substantial push into cryptocurrency and blockchain this week through multiple business moves. The holding company, which controls most of SBI's subsidiary operations, pa

Vitalik Buterin expects the vast majority of initial coin offerings to collapse. At the ETHWaterloo hackathon, the Ethereum co-founder told judges from Coinbase, Consensys, Slock.It, and Augur that ni

Brickblock announced its public token sale begins October 31st, offering cryptocurrency holders a way to invest in real-world assets without traditional middlemen. The Berlin-based startup has built

Peer-to-peer marketplaces for cryptocurrency transactions are starting to gain meaningful adoption across the broader sector. LocalEthereum, a newly launched P2P platform for buying and selling ether,

A Swiss nonprofit called the Publiq Foundation announced the launch of a blockchain-based content platform designed to combat fake news and bias in reporting. The platform gives authors, journalists,

Singapore's Monetary Authority and Hong Kong's Monetary Authority are building a cross-border blockchain platform for trade finance. The project aims to eliminate fraud and errors in a system built on

BitGive, the first nonprofit to combine Bitcoin technology with 501(c)(3) status, unveiled GiveTrack in beta form Tuesday night at Money2020 in Las Vegas. The platform tracks charitable donations from

A $124 ATM fee in Las Vegas caught the attention of BitPay co-founder and chairman Tony Gallippi this week. He posted the receipt on Twitter, highlighting what he viewed as an absurd charge for a debi

BMCHAIN is testing token adoption in Russia. The project raised $1,564,897 through its ICO, and Business Molodost, which helped launch it, accepts BMT as payment for courses at discounts reaching 50%.

MiningPool has partnered with Bitcoinshirt.co after editors at the site discovered the store's merchandise designs through a Reddit post from the company's owners. The collaboration sets the stage fo

Throughout 2017, development teams at Bitcoin and Ethereum shifted focus to building systems that sit on top of their blockchains, seeking to handle far more transactions than the main chains could ma

Dash, which ranks as the sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market value, debuts on Qryptos (a cryptocurrency-only trading platform) and Quoinex (a crypto-fiat exchange), both operating as subsidiaries o

BitRent envisions fundamentally transforming the real estate sector through blockchain technology, targeting a dramatic expansion of crypto market value to $10 trillion via investor participation. The

Hackers breached Hanatour, South Korea's largest travel agency, this month and stole the personal data of more than one million customers. The information included names, phone numbers, social securit

Imec-DistriNet researcher Mathy Vanhoef uncovered critical flaws in WPA2 this past week, exposing vulnerabilities that affect the encryption protecting all contemporary Wi-Fi networks. His findings re

Australia's financial regulator is moving forward with a significant overhaul of its anti-money laundering framework, bringing cryptocurrency exchanges into formal compliance oversight for the first t

BitClave raised nearly $15 million in its pre-sale, positioning itself as a privacy-focused alternative to Google and Facebook. The Ethereum-based search engine built transparency into its core functi

Circle bought Trigger Finance, a platform that lets retail investors set custom rules for trading and receiving alerts. The acquisition moves the Trigger team to Circle's new headquarters in New York,

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