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Jameson Lopp sounds alarm on Bitcoin address poisoning attacks
7.4.2025
Jameson Lopp, the chief security officer at Bitcoin (BTC) custody company Casa, sounded the alarm on Bitcoin address poisoning attacks, a social engineering scam that uses similar addresses from a victim's transaction history to fool them into sending funds to the malicious address.According...
Jameson Lopp sounds alarm on Bitcoin address poisoning attacks
7.4.2025
Jameson Lopp, the chief security officer at Bitcoin (BTC) custody company Casa, sounded the alarm on Bitcoin address poisoning attacks, a social engineering scam that uses similar addresses from a victim's transaction history to fool them into sending funds to the malicious address.According...
Burning quantum-vulnerable BTC is the best option — Jameson Lopp
16.3.2025
Jameson Lopp, the chief security officer at Bitcoin (BTC) custody company Casa, recently argued against allowing quantum recovery of lost BTC and said that burning these coins to protect the integrity of the protocol was the preferable option.According to Lopp, allowing individuals or institutions...
Canadian man says kidnappers wanted to torture him for his Bitcoin: Report
7.1.2025
An unnamed Canadian man says he’s been forced to move from one Airbnb to another to evade his suspected kidnappers
Canadian man says kidnappers wanted to torture him for his Bitcoin: Report
7.1.2025
An unnamed Canadian man says he’s been forced to move from one Airbnb to another to evade his suspected kidnappers
Canadian man says kidnappers wanted to torture him for his Bitcoin: Report
7.1.2025
An unidentified Canadian man said he has been forced to move from one Airbnb to another to evade his suspected kidnappers
Canadian man says kidnappers wanted to torture him for his Bitcoin: Report
7.1.2025
An unidentified Canadian man said he has been forced to move from one Airbnb to another to evade his suspected kidnappers
Canadian man says kidnappers wanted to torture him for his Bitcoin: Report
7.1.2025
An unidentified Canadian man said he has been forced to move from one Airbnb to another to evade his suspected kidnappers
Canadian man says kidnappers wanted to torture him for his Bitcoin: Report
7.1.2025
An unidentified Canadian man said he has been forced to move from one Airbnb to another to evade his suspected kidnappers
Canadian man says kidnappers wanted to torture him for his Bitcoin: Report
7.1.2025
An unidentified Canadian man said he has been forced to move from one Airbnb to another to evade his suspected kidnappers
Canadian man says kidnappers wanted to torture him for his Bitcoin: Report
7.1.2025
An unidentified Canadian man said he has been forced to move from one Airbnb to another to evade his suspected kidnappers
Saylor’s comments on big bank BTC custody are ‘batshit insane’ — Buterin
23.10.2024
Saylor appears to be “explicitly arguing for a regulatory capture approach to protecting crypto,” which was not what it is about, said Buterin.
Jameson Lopp: Most don't realize how easy self-custody has become
30.9.2024
Cypherpunk Jameson Lopp is making sure there are viable custody solutions that prioritize the user
Crypto community reacts to Windows-CrowdStrike outage as blockchains unaffected
19.7.2024
Many crypto community members noted that blockchains’ decentralized nature allowed them to continue running despite widespread outages across the global economy
Casa Co-Founder Jameson Lopp: Attacks on Cryptocurrency Whales Are “Vastly Underreported”
13.5.2024
Jameson Lopp, the co-founder of Casa, a Bitcoin services company, referred to increasing attacks targeting cryptocurrency whales. On social media, Lopp stated that “while still relatively rare,” the number of targeted attacks against crypto whales was “vastly underreported.”...
Bad actors and ‘block storms’ — Bitcoin dev calls for testnet reboot
6.5.2024
Bitcoin’s testnet needs to be reset so it can remain free for developers to use, says software engineer Jameson Lopp
Jameson Lopp’s Bitcoin Testnet ‘Griefing’ Stirs Controversy
30.4.2024
Jameson Lopp, a prominent figure in the Bitcoin community, deliberately “griefed” one of Bitcoin’s testnets by generating three years’ worth of blocks in a single week to highlight a vulnerability, sparking outrage among fellow Bitcoin developers. Using just 20 lines of code...
Someone ‘shit in the jacuzzi’ — Bitcoiners furious after testnet griefing
30.4.2024
That “someone” — Bitcoiner Jameson Lopp — argues he was championing a much-needed fix to one of Bitcoin’s testnets
Unlimited Innovations vs. 2,500 Swimming Pools — AI Faces Similar Environmental Backlash as Bitcoin Mining
29.12.2023
In recent years, attention has centered on bitcoin mining, particularly its energy usage in securing the network and validating transactions through proof-of-work (PoW). As generative artificial intelligence (AI) emerges as a major force in technology, it’s encountering similar environmental...
Elon Musk’s AI Tool Grok Misleads Users with Random Bitcoin Payment Address
11.12.2023
Image Source: Pixabay Grok, the artificial intelligence tool developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, has recently deceived users by falsely claiming to accept Bitcoin payments during a Q&A event. The tool even provided a random Bitcoin (BTC) donation address, as highlighted by Jameson Lopp,...