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Thinking About Smart Contract Security
Over the last day with the community's help we have crowdsourced a list of all of the major bugs with smart contracts on Ethereum so far, including both the...
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New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase
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Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery public dataset
Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies have captured the imagination of technologists, financiers, and economists. Digital currencies are only one application of the underlying blockchain technology. Earlier this year, we made the Bitcoin dataset publicly available for analysis in Google BigQuery. Today we’re making the…
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EU NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone
Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves
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Nostr and ATProto (2024)
This post could’ve been titled “Nostr vs ATProto”, but that really isn’t what I wanted to do here. While I will be comparing and contrasting them a lot, and that’s kind of even the point of writing this, I didn’t want to really pit the two against each other at all, and especially not with the title. I also want to…
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AI and Blockchain: An Introduction
At the kind invitation of Rob May and the Botchain team, I had the opportunity recently to keynote Brains and Chains, an interesting conference in New York expl
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The Evolving Economics of Bitcoin, Gold and Fiat Currencies
Find information for Bitcoin Futures Contract Specs provided by CME Group. View Contract Specs
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The “strategic reserve” exposes crypto as the scam it always was
Today, President Trump announced that the US Government would begin using taxpayer dollars to systematically buy up a variety of cryptocurrencies. Crypto prices shot up on the news. This is revealing, as crypto boosters have argued for years that cryptocurrency has legitimate economic value as a payment system outside…
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My view on the current situation of Bitcoin and the Blockchain
In a previous post, I wrote that I believe the Blockchain has the potential to be as disruptive -- and...
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Microsoft and Bank of America collaborate with Azure Blockchain as a Service
REDMOND, Wash., and NEW YORK — Sept. 27, 2016 — Today at Sibos, an annual conference organized by SWIFT for the financial industry, Microsoft Corp. and Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced a collaboration on blockchain technology to fuel transformation of trade finance transacting. As part of this collaboration…
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Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?
The theft last week of an estimated $100 million in crypto using a hardware backdoor planted in Ledger wallets points to a sophisticated and systematic attack aimed at subverting crypto wallets sold by legitimate resellers in Asia and Europe
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A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex
"Hello, to get your data back you have to pay for the decryption tool, the price is $1,200,000... You have to make the payment in Bitcoin...
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IPFS Backed by Decentralized Storage
Filebase now supports IPFS! Learn more about our latest network integration and how you can pin data onto IPFS in seconds, at a fraction of the cost of existing services.
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