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Equihax
Trawling the darknet as one does, I came across this little simple page this morning. It claims to be the real EQUIFAX hackers, unlike the last darknet site that was soon taken down by morons. I ha…
Parity Wallet security alert
We tell the story of Parity's technical roadmap with regular blogs. Read on to find out the latest on major upgrades that are delivering scalability for the Polkadot ecosystem.
Bitcoin is a Cult
The Bitcoin community has changed greatly over the years; from technophiles that could explain a Merkle tree in their sleep, to speculators driven by the desire for a quick profit & blockchain startups seeking billion dollar valuations led by people who don’t even know what a Merkle tree is. As the years have gone on…
Just Say No to Central Bank Digital Currencies
A Central Bank Digital Currency would enable a totalitarian nightmare
Bank transfers as a payment method
Bank transfers have exploded as a payment method in India and may become more common in much of the world.
Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1
The official blog of WizSec, a group of bitcoin security specialists, and their investigation into MtGox.
Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves
IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled
Chainalysis CTO said blockchain is easier to trace than paper money
Contrary to his original intentions, cryptocurrencies and DeFi platforms are now more vulnerable to privacy breaches and hacking than…
Ethereum Has Issues
I first wrote about the problem of bots front-running transactions a year and a half ago in The Order Flow , citing Dan Robinson and Georgio...
Why you can’t cash out part 1: Bitcoin’s “price” is largely fictional
Public discussion and media coverage of Bitcoin assumes certain things about Bitcoin: • Bitcoin has a price, that you could expect to buy or sell it around. • Bitcoin is like buying a share in a co…
The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether
Two Truths and a Take, Season 1 Episode 29
Analyzing Cryptocurrency Markets Using Python
A data-driven approach to cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple etc.) market analysis and visualization using Python.
Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments
Mullvad is now accepting payments in the Monero cryptocurrency.
Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology
Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.
Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency
We have sat here for the last 3 years seeing only infrastructure apps like wallets and exchanges emerge on top of Bitcoin. Why is that?