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Money Reimagined: This Isn’t Good for Bitcoin
17.7.2020
This week's Twitter hack won't make it easier for the crypto industry to win friends in Washington D.C., with possible implications for DeFi and more. How we talk about events like this matters
Report Shows Bitcoin’s Covid-19 Recovery Stronger Than Other Markets With Zero Intervention
17.7.2020
The response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been ruthless on the global economy and during the last six months, traditional stocks and commodities have felt extreme market volatility. Coinshares published a comprehensive report this week in regard to how bitcoin performed during the coronavirus...
Blockchain Bites: Binance’s Bitcoin Mining, ConsenSys’ Legal Trouble and Why Politicians Blame Twitter, Not Bitcoin
17.7.2020
Binance will consolidate its bitcoin mining, ConsenSys is accused of intellectual property theft and Wonder Woman's illustrator will sell art on Ethereum
Twitter Doesn’t Need Web 3.0 to Solve Its Identity Problem
17.7.2020
The great Twitter hack does not herald the end of the centralized web. But we need stronger cryptography for social media
Bitcoin News Roundup for July 17, 2020
17.7.2020
With Binance expanding its miner ambitions and Thailand's CBDC seeing early use, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back with another bitcoin news roundup
Aave’s LEND Token Is Now Up 1,600% in 2020
17.7.2020
The native token of the decentralized lender Aave has risen by over 100% this month alone
Miner Hoards: Q2 Bitcoin Mining Supply Outflow Touches 12-Month Low
17.7.2020
Onchain data shows that bitcoin miners are hoarding despite the 50% loss in revenue that started on May 11, during the third reward halving. The seven-day average of bitcoin miners’ outflow volume and mining funds sent to exchanges remains significantly low. Roughly four weeks ago on June...
CoinMarketCap Launches Headlines
17.7.2020
CoinMarketCap is pleased to announce the launch of the most updated version of Headlines, an aptly-named product that gathers allContinue Reading
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First Mover: Why Bitcoin Traders Couldn’t Give a Sat About the Twitter Hack
17.7.2020
Bitcoin barely moved on this week’s Twitter hack. Here's what analysts said about why the attack had such little effect on prices
Best Defi Interoperability Solutions – Exploring Fusion vs Cosmos vs Polkadot
17.7.2020
After the famous bull market of 2017, the cryptocurrency market experienced a very long and harsh bear market. Whilst this makes for a complicated period for investors, it’s not a complete tragedy; even if prices have been disappointing, fundamentals, on the other hand, have never been...
Bank of Thailand Enters Third Phase of CBDC Development; Now “Using CBDC with Big Businesses”
17.7.2020
The Bank of Thailand (BOT) announced Wednesday that is has entered third-phase development of its central bank digital currency (CBDC). BOT is planning to expand the use of the CBDC among large businesses. The report by The Nation of Thailand quotes Vachira Arromdee, BOT assistant governor saying...
Twitter Says Hacker Group Targeted 130 Accounts
17.7.2020
The group behind Wednesday’s Twitter hack targeted up to 130 accounts and managed to gain full control of a smaller subset
Bitcoin Investors Unfazed By Great Twitter Hack, as Volatility Remains Stable
17.7.2020
Bitcoin traders seem unfazed by the massive Twitter hack on Wednesday, as the price of the top cryptocurrency has largely remained steady. Prominent U.S. figures including billionaires Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos were targeted by hackers in an apparent Twitter bitcoin (BTC) scam....
On dependency
17.7.2020
Rob Weychert:
But I can’t host your site or even my own site. I didn’t build the CMS. Other people made the hardware and software I use to generate and optimize images. Other people made the fonts. Other people standardized the digital formats for those images and fonts. I didn’t write the HTML...
The Twitter Hack Fiasco: Compromised Internal Tool, Paid Insiders, Direct Message Fears
17.7.2020
On Wednesday, a large number of Twitter accounts were compromised and the hackers used the accounts to tweet about a bitcoin doubling scam. According to multiple reports, a Twitter employee was paid to give the hackers an internal tool that let them leverage high-profile social media accounts....
What Does the Twitter Hack Mean for Bitcoin? Crypto Reacts
17.7.2020
Is the Twitter hack a watershed moment to decentralized social media? Does it reinforce negative stereotypes of Bitcoin only being used in crime? CoinDesk asked crypto luminaries to see what they think
In the Aftermath of Hack, Lawmakers Blame Twitter, Not Bitcoin
16.7.2020
Lawmakers are calling on Twitter to answer for a hack that shook the platform, focusing on cybersecurity rather than scapegoating cryptocurrencies
Peter Schiff’s Bitcoin Hack Comment Invites Ridicule
16.7.2020
Euro Pacific Capital CEO, Peter Schiff’s comment suggesting Bitcoin might be the next target following a hack of multiple VIP Twitter accounts has been ridiculed by bitcoiners. Seemingly relishing the prospect of a bitcoin hack, Schiff a gold bug and a well-known bitcoin critic, signs off...
Market Wrap: What Twitter Hack? Traders Stay Busy Buying Bitcoin at $9,000
16.7.2020
Bitcoin suffered a short period of selling in early trading but has bounced back, seemingly immune to Wednesday's Twitter hack
Twitter Hack: Chainalysis and CipherTrace Confirm FBI Investigation
16.7.2020
The FBI is investigating Wednesday’s Twitter hack, Chainalysis and CipherTrace confirm