Ethereum

Technology

From armed robbery to a $530m hack: The week cryptocurrency went mad

In recent weeks the entire cryptocurrency industry has been rocked by a shocking amount of hacks, cyberattacks, mistakes and thefts. Here are the highlights.

Jan 29, 2018

By Jason Murdock

Bitcoin YouTube

Blockchain

Former Lloyds FX head joins Cobalt blockchain post-trade platform

Ex Lloyds forex chief Darren Coote has also invested in Cobalt.

Jan 29, 2018

By Ian Allison

Bitcoin

Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin giant BTCC bought by Hong Kong investment fund, plans to focus on international market

BTCC has been acquired by an unnamed Hong Kong-based blockchain investment fund

Jan 29, 2018

By Ian Allison

Bitcoin

CyberSecurity

Experty hacked: Over $150,000 worth of Ethereum stolen from ICO participants in phishing scam

Scammers pretending to be from Experty sent out a fake pre-ICO announcement email that encouraged users to send money to an Ethereum wallet that wasn't affiliated with the company.

Jan 29, 2018

By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

Blockchain

Will blockchain make social media fairer?

Blockchain takes away the power from social media giants by giving the ownership of data back to users.

Jan 27, 2018

By Ben Dickson

Facebook Bitcoin

Hacker puts over 650,000 personal patient records for sale on the dark web

CyberSecurity

Coincheck hack: Massive cryptocurrency heist sees hackers steal over $500m as exchange halts trading

Hackers stole over $500m from Coincheck, a major Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange, in the biggest cryptocurrency heist to date.

Jan 27, 2018

By India Ashok

Bitcoin

Blockchain

Blockstack focuses on building decentralised web amid crypto-token mania

Blockstack's Muneeb Ali refers to Google's motto – 'Don't be evil', and says shouldn't it be, 'can't be evil'?

Jan 26, 2018

By Ian Allison

Bitcoin Google Facebook

Cryptocurrency

Playing the game: Investment opportunities via cryptocurrencies are real

Egor Gurjev, CEO at Playkey looks at how cryptocurrency will truly empower gamers by monetising that network.

Jan 25, 2018

By Egor Gurjev

Bitcoin

Blockchain

Blockchain 2.0: Exchanging value in the physical and digital world, continuously and simultaneously

The Spherity team consider liquid supply medium exchange: continuous transactions, token streaming and digital twins.

Jan 23, 2018

By Carsten Stöcker, Dimitri de Jonghe, Michael Rüther

Bitcoin

Blockchain

Status supports Matrix: ICO gains used to back non-blockchain decentralisation technology

Status, which last year tokenised to the tune of about $100m, has sunk $5m into non-blockchain decentralisation technology Matrix.

Jan 22, 2018

By Ian Allison

Bitcoin

Blockchain

Blockchain identity system ShoCard meets GDPR standards

ShoCard removes the need for authentication data to be stored on an organisation's databases.

Jan 22, 2018

By Ian Allison

Bitcoin

Indian cabinet approves IOC, Oil India and BPCL’s collective $3bn stake purchase in Russian oil fields

Blockchain

BTL's blockchain energy trading project adds Gazprom, Total, Eni and more

Mercuria, Vattenfall, Petroineos and Freepoint are also joining phase two of BTL's 'OneOffice' trading project.

Jan 22, 2018

By Ian Allison

Bitcoin

Blockchain

ING, Societe Generale and ABN Amro do first blockchain agricultural commodity trade

The enhanced Easy Trading Connect (ETC) blockchain prototype was coordinated by seller Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC); the buyer was Shandong Bohi Industry in China.

Jan 22, 2018

By Ian Allison

Bitcoin

Technology

Cryptocurrency scandal: South Korean regulators probe claims of insider trading

As speculation about South Korea's stance on crypto shifts markets, it has emerged that at least one government official in the region is under investigation for insider trading.

Jan 19, 2018

By Jason Murdock

South Korea Bitcoin

Blockchain

Æternity doubles Parity hack bounty to rival $25m reward for Osama Bin Laden

Æternity had initially offered a reward of 10% of the funds taken; it's now 20%.

Jan 19, 2018

By Ian Allison

Blockchain

From CryptoPunks to Decentraland: The work of art in the age of blockchain revolution

The Rare Digital Art Festival, which took place in New York City last week, was packed to the rafters.

Jan 18, 2018

By Ian Allison

Bitcoin

Technology

The bitcoin resurgence? Cryptocurrency bouncing back after 48 hours of 'carnage'

Popular digital currency appears to rise in value after chaotic start to 2018 and particularly rough 48 hours.

Jan 18, 2018

By Jason Murdock

Bitcoin

Blockchain

Ethereum-based Digix and Republic Protocol doing dark pool crypto to gold trading

Republic Protocol is building a decentralized open-source dark pool protocol for the trading of cryptocurrency pairs across the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains.

Jan 18, 2018

By Ian Allison

Bitcoin

CyberSecurity

New Satori botnet variant now targets cryptocurrency mining rigs, replaces wallet addresses

The Satori variant comes less than a month after hackers posted the working code for a Huawei router exploit, which was used by the original Satori botnet, for free.

Jan 18, 2018

By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

Technology

John McAfee calm on bitcoin crash: 'Relax everyone, cryptocurrency can't be stopped'

Outspoken technology pioneer John McAfee steadies cryptocurrency investors' nerves

Jan 17, 2018

By Jason Murdock

Bitcoin

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