2019-4-30 23:46 |
Anti-malware software firm Malwarebytes discovered that the number of infected Electrum wallets has amounted to 152,000
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On-chain data shows the number of Bitcoin wallets with a non-zero balance has set a new all-time high above 40 million. Number Of Bitcoin Wallets With Non-Zero Balance Hits New ATH As per the latest weekly report from Glassnode, the number of BTC wallets that hold a non-zero amount of coins has now reached a […]
2022-2-2 22:00 | |
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Data from Glassnode shows that number of Bitcoin wallets held by financial institutions has resumed growing
2021-5-8 12:52 | |
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On April 23, the security consulting firm Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) published a document concerning a number of unsound public and private key pairs tied to the Ethereum blockchain. The probability of chance needed to crack 256-bit encryption would take years for hackers to access random private keys.
2019-4-25 16:58 | |
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Two Nigerian nationals face charges of attempting to defraud US residents through numerous Bitcoin investment scams. But the pair are yet to be apprehended by US authorities. Onwuemerie Ogor Gift and Kelvin Usifo are facing a 13-count indictment, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, and 11 instances of wire fraud, OregonLive reports.
2019-4-25 15:18 | |
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CryptoNinjas Totle, a crypto portfolio management and DEX aggregation platform, has announced today a new update to the Totle Portfolio Management dApp with four new features. The team revealed that the platform has now integrated two new wallets, bringing the total number of supported.
2019-4-24 13:29 | |
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One of the important attributes for measuring the success of BTC is by how widely adopted it is not just in terms of wallets, but also in the number of use cases that it fulfills.... The post Now You Can Pay With BTC in Amazon via Lightning Network Thanks to Moon appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-4-23 01:21 | |
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One of the biggest responsibilities of cryptocurrency owners is safely storing their digital assets. Over the last few years, hardware wallets have become an extremely convenient security solution that has helped in this regard.
2019-4-16 19:22 | |
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Electrum servers are still under a sustained Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. The wallet developers announced the issue on April 7, 2018. In correspondence with Bitcoin Magazine, Electrum developer Thomas Voegtlin speculated that the attack may be a form of retaliation from a phishing attacker who has been targeting Electrum in recent weeks.
2019-4-11 21:47 | |
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By now many a guide online has likely taught you how to buy, sell, and store your cryptocurrency. One area of research we’ve found lacking was the one explaining how to keep track of everything you have.
2019-4-7 17:45 | |
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The latest surge in Bitcoin price may have been caused by increased activity across the board as the number of active wallets has risen by as much as 40-60 percent, according to the latest data and industry analysts.
2019-4-5 19:30 | |
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A recent report by Bloomberg cites a reduction in the number of idle Bitcoin wallets as a primary reason for the latest price surge. But is that really the case? Idle Bitcoin Wallets Plunge Citing a research from market intelligence firm Flipside Crypto, Bloomberg reports that a high number of Bitcoin wallets have become active […] Smaller Holders Caused Latest Bitcoin Rally, Bloomberg Reports, But Did They Really? originally published on My Bitcoin News by Yordan Lyanchev.
2019-4-5 12:07 | |
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A new report by the software firm DataLight predicted that Bitcoin could become the world’s top payment system within the next decade if it maintains its current growth rate.
2019-4-5 21:51 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Olusegun Ogundeji. Bitcoin has crossed the $5,000 price range again (after its first reach to that level in 2017) following a sudden breakout on April 2, 2019.
2019-4-4 18:42 | |
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An analytical firm from Boston says that since March 15, a great number of crypto wallets of average users were active, which could have provoked the current BTC increase
2019-4-4 14:45 | |
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Bitcoin is getting a lot of attention for the recent jump in price, but the fact that there was already a growing number of active wallets prior to the boost. In the last two weeks, Bloomberg reports that, while there is usually about 50% of Bitcoins that reside in inactive wallets for around six months […]
2019-4-4 04:53 | |
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A high number of digital wallets holding Bitcoin became active two weeks before the recent crypto market rally
2019-4-4 01:25 | |
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The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.
2019-4-4 00:05 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.
2019-4-2 21:54 | |
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Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.
2019-3-29 18:20 | |
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Sending bitcoin lightning payments over the web might soon get easier. That’s because a new bitcoin standard for simplifying lightning payments, the open-source WebLN standard, is gaining traction, now being used by Lightning Joule and Bluewallet, two of the more popular lightning wallets, as well as apps like Lightning Spin, to slim down the number […]
2019-3-26 01:00 | |
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Like any currency, cryptos need a place to be stored by people. As the technical equivalent of fiat personal storage, these digital and hardware storages are aptly called e-wallets. With a large number of wallets for cryptocurrencies in the market, the selection process for users relies on the level of security, ease of access and use case.
2019-3-25 09:29 | |
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Lightning Labs, the development team working to grow the Lightning Network, just released the alpha version of a new protocol called Lightning Loop. Lightning Loop is designed to give users the ability to deposit and withdraw bitcoin from their payment channels (the two-way payment gateways that allow users to send and receive funds to and from each other) without closing these channels entirely.
2019-3-22 20:32 | |
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As anxiety grows around every new twist and turn in the ongoing QuadrigaCX drama, along with extensive QuadrigaCX media coverage, Canada’s mainstream media has been calling on the government to bring in better oversight and regulation of cryptocurrency businesses, especially cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-3-20 18:42 | |
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A recent report suggests that the user count of Blockchain Inc wallet has grown to a massive 34 million in 2019, the percent growth of 48% from 2018 is for sure a reason to rejoice. If we compare the number from 2012, the growth rate goes up by a staggering 1 million percent. The growth […]
2019-3-15 03:37 | |
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2019-3-14 06:03 | |
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Over the last few months, a number of cryptocurrency wallet and exchange providers have joined the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO). The foundation aims to improve digital currency operability because it believes the user experience (UX) for cryptocurrencies is poor and the majority of wallets cannot handle payment requests between wallets.
2019-3-14 01:20 | |
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CipherTrace, a blockchain analytics company, is partnering with the Republic of Malta’s sole financial regulatory agency to ensure that all crypto transactions within the country are free of money laundering and other similar financial crimes.
2019-3-14 00:14 | |
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2019-3-13 19:34 | |
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Ledger, one of the leading hardware wallet manufacturers, has discovered a number of vulnerabilities in devices created by its main competitor. The company says that there are five different security flaws distributed between the Trezor One and the Trezor Model T.
2019-3-13 21:36 | |
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It would seem that there are a number of unresolved issues with Trezor’s wallets as Ledger has revealed in a post dated March 11, 2019, which outlines five major vulnerabilities in their competitor’s product.
2019-3-13 20:00 | |
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What Is BC-Vault? BC Vault is a secure cryptocurrency vault that can store the user’s private keys in a secure hardware wallet, designed to suit the needs of both experienced and novice crypto owners.
2019-3-12 10:40 | |
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The battle of the hardware wallets is heating up. At this weekend’s MIT Bitcoin Expo in Boston, Charles Guillmet, Chief Security Officer of Ledger, presented a number of physical attacks that could be executed against Trezor hardware wallets.
2019-3-12 05:30 | |
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Several years into the cryptocurrency era, many users and enthusiasts have faced a peculiar issue: managing their various crypto assets required a degree of automation. It’s hard to keep track of everything that blooms in your crypto garden: on the one hand, many of us have accounts on more than one crypto exchange and wallets scattered across many blockchains; on the other, a large number of ICO investors and HODLers need ready access to their numbers.
2019-3-5 19:13 | |
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A group of lawyers from some of Canada’s top law firms convened in a court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today to secure the right to represent creditors in the ongoing QuadrigaCX litigation.
2019-2-15 01:45 | |
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The number of crypto coins hacked in 2018 was worth billions in dollars. A good number of the hacks launched targeted digital currency exchanges, the resulting loss was close to $ 1 billion. This has spiked a series of arguments with one team advocating for the use of digital wallets as opposed to entrusting centralized […]
2019-2-8 18:55 | |
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According to a recent report, Joel Ortiz, the 20-year-old student from Boston who was indicted by prosecutors in Santa Clara, California, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in what is believed to be the very first SIM swapping conviction in the United States.
2019-2-6 01:17 | |
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Today, February 5, 2019, a court in Nova Scotia, Canada, granted bankruptcy protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) to the embattled Vancouver-based cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX.
2019-2-6 23:12 | |
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When I decided, maybe against my better judgement, to live on bitcoin for a week, the plan was met by a combination of cautions and jokes from friends and loved ones: “Just don’t starve,” “Well, it’s the New Year, a perfect time to start a new diet,” “Will you be able to eat?”, “Have you really thought about it?”I had “really” thought about it and it seemed not only sensible but necessary.
2019-2-5 23:06 | |
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On January 26, 2019, clients of peer-to-peer bitcoin trading service LocalBitcoins were the targets of a phishing scam which resulted in the theft of a handful of bitcoins.
2019-1-31 18:40 | |
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Peer-to-peer bitcoin trading site LocalBitcoins says it's suffered a hack via a third-party service that affected a small number of users.
2019-1-28 16:20 | |
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Your crypto wallet could contain laundered coins, says a firm specializing in cryptocurrency security. BestMixer, a bitcoin tumbler site that provides untraceable cryptocurrency, may have tainted a significant number of wallets by gifting them small amounts of Bitcoin (BTC) – a technique known as ‘crypto dusting.
2019-1-14 22:11 | |
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The number of active Bitcoin wallets, many of which have long been dormant, has seen an uptick that could herald some major market movements, analysts say
2019-1-12 07:00 | |
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The number of long-dormant Bitcoin wallets becoming active once again is rising according to a crypto research group. According to those compiling the data, this could pave the way for large price moves.
2019-1-12 02:00 | |
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Crypto payment platform Bitrefill has launched Thor, a service that allows customers to open Lightning channels on demand. Thor will connect to Bitrefill's node on the Lightning Network, allowing users to receive Lightning payments whether they have bitcoin loaded into their Lightning wallets or not.
2019-1-11 18:02 | |
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USDC this week surpassed $300 million in market cap (including Circle activity) and earned the support of six new companies, bringing to nearly 100 the number of exchanges, protocols, platforms, applications, wallets and service providers that are part of the USDC ecosystem. USDC, launched in September, is now the second
2019-1-10 19:03 | |
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2019-1-5 21:09 | |
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In the time-honored tradition of goal setting for the new year, Bitcoin Magazine has compiled a short list of seven possible New Year’s Resolutions for Bitcoiners as we head into 2019.
2019-1-2 03:22 | |
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Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder.
2019-1-1 19:31 | |
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Many projects that had their own Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) using Ethereum have started to liquidate their ETH funds this year as the prices started to go down. Now, the withdrawals have reach an all year high of 420,000 ETH being withdrawn this month.
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The “Godfather” malware is also known to target 110 cryptocurrency exchange platforms and 94 cryptocurrency wallet apps.
Password-stealing malware is being spread by hackers through NFT airdrops purporting to be Solana Phantom security updates.
Dressed up as legitimate desktop software, this sneaky malware has infected thousands of machines across 11 countries, forcing them to unknowingly mine Monero (XMR).
The developer who found the vulnerability requested developers sign their revisions with the GPG key to ensure all their revisions on the project can be verified.
Blockchain security firm Halborn has warned users of the latest phishing emails doing the rounds.
As the crypto community notices and calls out such scams, the fraudsters tend to turn off replies to their tweets to prevent being exposed as scammers.
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