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Death and self-custody: How to pass on your crypto when you die
11.1.2023
Crypto lawyers suggest including highly detailed instructions in one’s will and appointing a crypto-savvy next-of-kin, among other suggestions
$5 wrench attacks appear to be on the rise in the crypto community
2.2.2022
"Be careful, sometimes, when you mention that you work in crypto, people's impression of you immediately switches to "millionaire" or "billionaire", making you far more susceptible to extortion-related crimes," writes security expert Dr. Anon
Watch Thieves Wrench Open a Bitcoin ATM – Leaving a Regular ATM Intact
24.1.2020
Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, PhiladelphiaPolice
An American store manager was left baffled after thieves executed a sophisticated plan to steal a Bitcoin ATM that “wasn’t doing well” – leaving a cash-filled conventional ATM behind.
Police in Philidelphia said two men used crowbars to break...
Evercoin Launches Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet
12.11.2019
At New York Consensus Invest Summit, Evercoin Inc. today announced Evercoin 2, the “safest hardware wallet”. Evercoin 2 provides a wallet and exchange for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies featuring a hardware wallet the size of a house key powered by YubiKey 5ci, the first implementation of...
Turkey Throws Another Wrench Into the USD’s Works and Joins Russian Swift
11.10.2019
The dominance of the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency is being robustly challenged on all fronts. Other geopolitical powers and smaller but important players are unwilling to accept the political influence Washington exerts through its fiat money. And in times of trade wars, sanctions...
Promises and Static Values
23.8.2019
Async can throw a real wrench into the cogs of our programming workflows, all despite the fact that async is the modern JavaScript pattern. While async/await helps, there’s sometimes confusion about the way to have a single function that returns a value whether it exists or needs a Promise...