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Sierra Club leads lawsuit against NY town to prevent expanding Bitcoin mining operations
21.12.2020
The lawsuit alleges Greenidge circumvented state laws by seeking regulatory approval "through two separate but interdependent approval applications."
Urgent plea to prevent auction of $1.6B Bitcoin seized from Silk Road hacker
18.12.2020
Pierre Rochard has made an “urgent” plea to lawmakers to instead create a strategic Bitcoin reserve and fill it with BTC seized by law enforcement
France moves to ban anonymous crypto accounts to prevent money laundering
10.12.2020
France is preparing new frameworks to prevent anonymity in crypto
OKEx CEO Says Exchange Updating Procedures to Prevent Repeat of Withdrawal Freeze Issue
2.12.2020
Jay Hao pledged in an AMA that his firm has taken steps to ensure that cryptocurrency withdrawals can't again be stuck by the absence of a key holder
Russian Prime Minister Pledges to ‘Civilize’ Crypto Market and Prevent Scams
26.11.2020
Changes to the law will bring Russia's crypto users more protections against fraud, said Mikhail Mishustin
Ethereum’s ‘Unannounced Hard Fork’ Was Trying to Prevent the Very Disruption It Caused
12.11.2020
A hard fork that split Ethereum’s chain in two was activated on purpose, calling into question Ethereum’s client coordination
How to Prevent Pasting into an Input
19.10.2020
Every once in a while I get to a website that doesn’t allow me to paste into a form input. In most cases it’s something to do with login credentials (username and or password) and auth codes. So how are they preventing me from pasting information? It’s as easy as you’d...
High Gas Fees Prevent Ethereum From Being Ethereum
14.10.2020
Miners are incentivized to keep Ethereum gas fees high, and in doing so limit one of the network's principal use cases
Kyrgyzstan’s central bank suspends SWIFT to prevent capital outflow
7.10.2020
The bank is shutting down the SWIFT network as protests rocked the country
Ethreum partners with ChainSafe and OpenRelay to prevent more 51% attacks
20.9.2020
The quest to protect Ethereum Classic continues
Ledger wallet upgrade can prevent ‘dusting attacks’
18.9.2020
Cold wallet maker Ledger adds more privacy protection to its software suite
Audits first: ‘No strings-attached grants’ to prevent DeFi debacles
27.8.2020
Fair Launch Capital’s business model may help prevent future YAM DeFi debacles
University of Utah Pays Ransomware Gang to Prevent Student Data Leak
22.8.2020
This is one instance where the ransomware gang got away with it
Major Chinese Banks Bar Customers From Buying Gold, Precious Metals
1.8.2020
Major Chinese banks have taken measures to prevent customers from buying gold, platinum, palladium, and other precious metal-related products through them. The Shanghai Gold Exchange also says it may take necessary measures to curb gold trading to “protect investors.” Chinese Banks...
Escalating Bank Runs Spur Chinese Government to Require Approval for Large Cash Transactions
7.7.2020
A series of bank runs has prompted the Chinese government to begin requiring approval for large cash deposits and withdrawals at commercial banks, starting with banks in a northern province. Recently, two bank runs happened within a week as people lost faith in financial institutions amid...
Bitcoin Price Analyst Says This Can Prevent a Big BTC Drop in Q3 2020
5.7.2020
The price of Bitcoin dropped below $9,000 for the second time in one week but the uptrend of BTC can be sustained despite a historically bearish Q3
Israeli Firm Develops Tech Allowing Crypto Users to Retrieve Funds Sent in Error
30.6.2020
Israeli blockchain startup Kirobo says it solved the problem of funds being lost through errors in irreversible crypto transactions
Bancor Discovers Critical Vulnerability, Hacks Itself to Prevent Theft
18.6.2020
The Bancor decentralized exchange has released a smart contract with a critical vulnerability, and is now hacking itself to save user funds from malicious actors
Canaan Narrows Q1 Loss to $5.6 Million Amid Weakening Demand for Mining Hardware
23.5.2020
Bitcoin mining rig manufacturer Canaan Creative reported a net loss of $5.6 million for the first quarter of 2020, down from $9.5 million a year earlier. The Chinese company cut prices of its ASIC-based machines by over 50% in an effort to improve sales, but that wasn’t enough to prevent...
MakerDAO Takes New Measures to Prevent Another ‘Black Swan’ Collapse
4.5.2020
The DeFi lending market MakerDAO has updated its governance protocols to prevent another occurrence of forced liquidations that lead to huge losses