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When Bitcoin SV (BSV) forked from Bitcoin Cash, its mandate to create a faster, payments-focused blockchain required gutting some of Bitcoin’s key technical features. In doing so, it gutted some of Bitcoin’s key features; now, it’s worse off for it.One of these features, the so-called pay-to-script hash (P2SH) function, allows a
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The Money Reimagined PodcastAfter reading this newsletter, make sure you check out the latest edition of our podcast. This week, Sheila Warren and I talk to Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf about self-sovereign identity, the topic of the column below. A developer whose three-decade career has seen him deeply involved in
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Wasabi Wallet users need to upgrade to the latest version if they want to continue using the CoinJoin feature to keep their Bitcoin transaction histories private. That’s because those running older iterations of the wallet can no longer use this feature to mix their coins with users who have the newest
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A hypothetical man-in-the-middle attack would have allowed an attacker to hold users’ crypto for ransom on Trezor and KeepKey hardware wallets. Source
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A standard way to transact Bitcoin could be vulnerable to double-spending, new research has found. Blockchain sleuths at ZenGo, a wallet startup, have found a vulnerability that affected at least three major crypto wallets – Ledger Live, Edge and Breadwallet (BRD) – and potentially more. The bug, which the Tel Aviv-based firm
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Automated market maker protocol Balancer lost over $450,000 in a hacking incident on Sunday.The firm’s co-founder and CTO, Mike McDonald, confirmed that hackers drained at least two of their pools that contained deflationary tokens STA and STONK.He admitted that hackers exploited security vulnerabilities in those tokens to trick their pools
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[sociallocker id="55298"] With the coronavirus pandemic forcing many businesses to adopt work-from-home policies, the demand for video conferencing programs appears to have increased. Indeed, by late April, video conference app Zoom was seeing 300 million daily meeting participants, a 50% rise from the 200 million recorded at the start of
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The Bitcoin price rallied enormously in the weeks leading to its third mining reward halving on May 12, 2020.Many analysts believe the cryptocurrency would undergo a deep price pullback after the event, citing historical patterns.But the fractal ignores one crucial factor that led the bitcoin price lower after the second
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Decentralized exchange (DEX) Bisq rang the alarm bells last night after a hacker exploited a significant software flaw to steal more than $250,000 worth of cryptocurrency from users. Bisq, which allows users to exchange crypto anonymously, abruptly disabled trading late Tuesday night after it uncovered "a critical security vulnerability." At
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Xbox Series X Backward Compatibility Has One Depressing Flaw Published: February 25, 2020 9:43 PM UTC The Xbox Series X is scoring major points with gamers for its backward compatibility support. But this feature has one depressing flaw.
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