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The number of addresses holding at least 0.1 Bitcoin (BTC) has exceeded the 3-million mark for the first time as hodlers brace for the halving.Source: glassnodeAnalysts who adhere to the efficient markets hypothesis, believe that the halving is already priced in and will not significantly affect the price. However, there
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Recent changes to Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) in iOS may have killed burner wallets for iPhone users.Burner wallets are non-custodial wallets that store a user's private key in the browser’s local storage. A change made by Apple to Safari’s Webkit engine meant to enhance user privacy may jeopardize this
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The Bitcoin.com Wallet app has reached almost 10.5 million wallets created across several million app downloads. This milestone follows last month’s release
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The leading provider of Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency payment services, BitPay, announced on Feb. 4 that the company will soon allow invoices to be paid from any Bitcoin wallet or exchange. BitPay CEO Stephen Pair told CryptoX that the decision to enable merchant payments from any Bitcoin wallet was driven
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Kraken Security Labs revealed on Jan 31. that Trezor hardware wallets and their derivatives can be hacked to extract private keys. Though the procedure is quite involved, Kraken claims that it “requires just 15 minutes of physical access to the device.”The attack requires a physical intervention on the Trezor
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The security research team at Kraken has found a way to hack into the popular Trezor bitcoin hardware wallet. In merely 15 minutes with physical access to the device, the team extracted seeds from the wallet.Only works if hacker has physical access to the walletAccording to Kraken Security Labs, breaking
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On today’s holiday episode, we’ll define and demystify the blockchain concepts of “Hot Wallets” and “Cold Storage”Disclosure Read More The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating
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Ether is down significantly from record highs and the majority of its holders are losing money on their investments.The second-largest cryptocurrency, which powers ethereum's blockchain, is currently trading at $131, representing a 90 percent drop from the all-time high of $1,431 reached in early January 2018, according to CoinDesk's ether
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Binance Singapore has purportedly abruptly suspended a Bitcoin withdrawal from a trader using a wallet with a coin-mixing service, a harsh reminder that large exchanges aren’t the best place to hold coins if one values anonymity and accessibility. Binance Account Suspended Twitter user Catxolotl (@bittlecat) received a message from Binance Singapore
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A major code update for the cryptocurrency bitcoin SV (for Satoshi's vision) will render some features of BitGo's wallets useless, the crypto custodian says.In a blog update on Wednesday, "Murch," a software engineer at the firm, said the Genesis hard fork scheduled for Feb. 4, 2020, would usher in a
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