Cornell Professor Reopens Scaling Debate With Bitcoin Critique
One of the known security vulnerabilities in cryptocurrency is the human being and his or her capacity for foolish acts. ...
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Researcher Nears Launch of Ava, a Crypto & Potential Ethereum Killer
By CCN: The crypto ecosystem often explores which blockchain will emerge as the 'Ethereum killer.' So far, no network has ...
How Crypto Social Network Minds is Using Ad Buys to Create a ‘Semi-Stablecoin’
All the talk about stablecoins has people re-examining the actual value of crypto tokens and the associated markets. The discussion ...
Crypto Exchanges Begin to Disregard Bitcoin Cash SV After Block Reorg
Bitcoin Cash SV, the hard forked chain of Bitcoin Cash created by a camp composed of CoinGeek, Calvin Ayre, and ...
Ethereum: We Haven’t Seen the Last of the Bug That Killed the DAO
More than two years after the collapse of The DAO thrust the Ethereum community into civil war, one of the ...
Samsung: Smartphones are the Most Secure Device When Using Cryptocurrency
According to Samsung, the $290 billion behemoth which dominates every major industry in South Korea, smartphones are the safest device ...
New Bitcoin Scam Targets Embarrassed Porn Viewers
A new scam has begun targeting porn viewers in an attempt to blackmail victims and extort $1,900 -- and they ...
EOS Faces Constitutional Crisis over Frozen Accounts
“Consensus by conference call” -- that’s how one critic characterized the on-chain governance model employed by the nascent EOS network ...
EOS Freezes Seven Accounts Following Mainnet Snafu
EOS, an altcoin blockchain that was halted by a bug that prevented transactions two days after going live, has frozen ...
EOS Vulnerability Will Lead to ‘Massive Exchange Hack’, Predicts Cornell Blockchain Researcher
The EOS network has barely processed its first blocks, but one blockchain researcher is already predicting that an as-yet-undiscovered vulnerability ...
Extension Block Proposal Stumbles In Attempt to End Bitcoin Block Size Debate
The block size debate has gotten to a point that some bitcoin observers think it could doom bitcoin. Bitcoin has ...
Bitfinex’s Lesson: Has the Time for Regulation Arrived?
In light of the Bitfinex hack and other hacks, the bitcoin community faces the need to improve security and is ...
Ethereum Crises Deepens; SoftFork Out, HardFork Decision in Just 16 Days
The Ethereum community is in emergency mode as showstoping findings from the Cornell team sent the soft-fork option out. The ...
Cornell Professor Sirer Blasts Back: Asks ChangeTip to Prove Their Commitment to Privacy
A Cornell professor is done hearing about how bad ChangeTip feels when he called them out for their, what he ...
Cornell Professor Says ChangeTip Must Die, and He Has a Strong Point
ChangeTip’s humble origins began in the earlier days of Bitcoin, when it wasn’t as strong of a talking point of ...
Germany’s Finance Chief Joins Slew of Financial Leaders Scoffing at Libra
Germany joined the chorus of countries offering stiff resistance to Libra, Facebook’s new digital coin. German Finance Minister, Olaf Scholz,...
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