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The Swiss-based non-profit blockchain industry association, the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), believes that the crises resulting from the coronavirus pandemic have highlighted the benefits of distributed ledger technology (DLT).In email correspondence with Cryptox, a representative of the GBBC asserted that DLT can modernize and address the inefficiencies of the
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The Blue Mockingbird malware gang has infected more than 1000 business systems with Monero mining malware since December 2019.The global scale of the hacker group’s operations was revealed by cloud security firm Red Canary on May 26.The report outlined the group’s methodology. The malware attacks servers running ASP.NET applications and
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As shelter-in-place orders are extended throughout the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic, controversy around online voting systems has surfaced. The dangers of internet voting were recently publicly announced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS.On April 9, the AAAS Center for Scientific Evidence
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In Kyiv, Ukraine, investigators have found another example of someone using the systems at their workplace for illicit cryptocurrency mining. The Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office official Facebook page announced on Feb. 26 that it concluded a pre-trial investigation against an unnamed individual in collaboration with the State Bureau of Investigation. The accused
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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, suspended trading on Wednesday, alerting users that the outage is due to “temporary system maintenance.” The exchange has suspended deposits, withdrawals, spot trading, margin trading, person-to-person trading, lending, redemption and asset transfers from sub-accounts, margin accounts, futures accounts and wallets that hold
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One of the world's largest defense contractors is seeking "cryptocurrency exploiters" to support a client based in Washington, D.C.Advertised on LinkedIn, the Virginia-based arm of BAE Systems is searching for candidates who can "demonstrate proficiency in cryptocurrency" and can move to the U.S. capital to "support a client’s operational requirements."Successful
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Today, OKEx announced the release time of the 10th session of Jumpstart where HyperDAO (HDAO) will conduct its token sale. OKEx has always been a proud supporter of the decentralised finance space. Earlier last year, OKEx became the first major platform to integrate Maker’s Dai Savings Rate into its platform.
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This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Ben Goertzel is founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a blockchain-based AI marketplace project.As AI rapidly pervades every sector of the economy, there are few
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Adding to the increasing number of major cryptocurrency facilities in the global crypto ecosystem, the Denver-based energy company Crusoe Energy Systems is set to launch a new Bitcoin mining farm after raising $70 million.Crusoe Energy Systems is well known for its role in the oil and gas industry. As a
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Bitcoin was designed as a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency, but as the network expanded, there was no way to avoid the growing influence of centralized crypto exchanges. Soon after Bitcoin’s launch, more people wanted to enter the system. While mining was an affordable option at the time, buying crypto with fiat
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