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Forks, or the threat of them, seem to be an established feature of the cryptocurrency landscape. But what are they? Why are they such a big deal? And what is the difference between a hard fork and a soft fork?A “fork,” in programming terms, is an open-source code modification. Usually,
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In 2021, the number of global crypto holders has been estimated to have increased by 3.9% to more than 300 million crypto users worldwide, with more than 18,000 businesses already accepting cryptocurrencies as payment. India is currently in the lead with 100 million users, followed by the United States with
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Yeah, I think people are concerned. I think people are educated and understand this. But I also think that people have mostly decided that "oh, somebody is going to fix this” or “I'm sure somebody's looking into that,” when the opposite is the case. Nobody is really focused on this.
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sponsored Binance, the world’s leading blockchain and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider, today announced that it has joined the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), a nonprofit corporation focused on identifying, validating, mitigating, and neutralizing cybercrime threats. Binance is the first organization from the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry to formally join the
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In recent months, the PoW consensus mechanism has received scrutiny by lawmakers globally for its energy consumption. Most recently, the U.S. held a congressional hearing to discuss the energy consumption related to the PoW. Meanwhile, the EU markets regulator called for a ban on the validation system, citing its energy
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Ethereum’s latest price decrease was fueled by increased altcoin inflows to cryptocurrency exchanges. Experts attribute the drop in Ethereum’s price to direct transfers from the NFT marketplace OpenSea. OpenSea Transaction Volume Dangerous For Ethereum According to Etherscan data, OpenSea has been unloading thousands of ETH on the market in the last few
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A bug on the non-fungible tokens (NFT) marketplace OpenSea has allowed an attacker to get away with massive discounts on several NFTs and make huge profit.The bug, which was discovered as early as Dec. 31, 2021, allowed the attacker to buy NFTs at older, lower prices, and sell them for
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Want to buy some bitcoin? Better get your ID and front-facing camera ready.These days, the price of entry into cryptocurrency is usually not just your dollars or euros but also a wealth of personal data. The practice of gathering such data from users, known as know-your-customer, or KYC, has been
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Cryptocurrency was supposed to be about privacy. It’s right there in the prefix "crypto" (meaning “hidden” or “secret”), a nickname the technology shares with cryptography, the discipline that spawned it.“We have to trust [banks] with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts,” Bitcoin creator Satoshi
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Bitcoin (BTC) set new multi-month lows on Jan. 24 as the new week began with some classic price behavior.BTC/USD 1-minute candle chart (Binance). Source: TradingView“Rangeplay” for BTC after CME gap fillData from Cryptox Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD dipping to $32,967 on Bitstamp prior to the Wall Street open Monday.That
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