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Blockchain Bites: BlockFi Hacked, Block.one Sued, BitMEX Down
19.5.2020
A SIM swapping exploit revealed BlockFi customer names and addresses while BitMEX is hit with RICO accusations
Base Layer Blockchain Harmony Adds Staking to Open Up Validator Set
19.5.2020
Harmony announced Tuesday that its mainnet has now incorporated staking, allowing users to earn ONE tokens for locking in their current holdings
Bitcoin News Roundup for May 19, 2020
19.5.2020
BTC hits a golden cross while hackers break into COVID-19 researching supercomputers. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast
The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption
19.5.2020
What people fail to consider when they criticize Bitcoin's electricity footprint, according to our columnist
BlockFi: Hacker Sim-Swapped Employee’s Phone, No Funds Were Lost
19.5.2020
The hacker compromised an employee's phone and gained access to users' personal information, including their names and addresses, but BlockFi says no funds were affected
Libra Taps Another Former FinCEN Official as General Counsel
19.5.2020
Robert Werner is the second former FinCEN staffer to join the Libra Association this month
Hybrid Blockchain Maker Kadena Adds Chainlink Price Feeds
19.5.2020
The former JPMorgan blockchain leads at Kadena have inked a deal to use Chainlink’s oracles for pricing crypto assets on Kadena's high-throughput network
BitMEX Trading Engine Goes Offline, Company ‘Investigating’
19.5.2020
The trading engine for BitMEX, formerly the largest bitcoin derivatives exchange measured by open interest, is offline at press time
Block.one Failed to Decentralize EOS, Argues New Securities Fraud Lawsuit
19.5.2020
The plaintiffs – a crypto fund and an individual investor – are seeking compensatory damages from Block.one and other defendants
Ex-CFTC Chair Chris Giancarlo Joins Swiss Effort to Fund COVID Relief Projects
19.5.2020
Led by Swiss crypto exchange Lykke, a $200,000 initiative to fund tech-driven COVID-19 relief projects has tapped ex-CFTC chair Chris Giancarlo as its advisor
First Mover: Bitcoin Difficulty Adjustment Feels Like Post-Halving Easing Party
19.5.2020
Bitcoin mining is set to get easier, as the network undergoes an expected difficulty adjustment on Tuesday – the first since last week's reward halving
Bitcoin’s Impending Golden Cross May Bolster Bulls: Analysts
19.5.2020
Bitcoin's price uptrend could gather pace following the confirmation of the golden crossover in the next few days
Nvidia Disguised $1B in ‘Fickle’ Crypto Mining Sales as Gaming Revenue, Lawsuit Claims
19.5.2020
An amended lawsuit accuses the chip maker of concealing $1 billion in graphics processing unit sales to crypto miners to downplay risk to long-term profits
EU Supercomputers Hijacked From COVID-19 Research to Mine Cryptocurrency
19.5.2020
A number of supercomputers programmed to search for a vaccine for the coronavirus were remotely hijacked last week using stolen credentials
DTCC Considers DLT Use in Securities Trading With 2 New Studies
19.5.2020
DTCC, the plumber to capital markets’ quadrillion-dollar pipes, is wondering if DLT can boost securities processing
Vitalik Buterin: Blockchains Will Discourage Monopolies, Not Create Them
19.5.2020
Antitrust agencies should reconsider blockchains as they can help them fight monopolies, Vitalik Buterin and Thibault Schrepel argue in a new paper
Developers of Ethereum Privacy Tool Tornado Cash Smash Their Keys
19.5.2020
Developers of ether mixer Tornado Cash have destroyed their admin keys, turning the privacy tool into permissionless code
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Stuck in High $9K Range as Stocks Soar on Powell Comments
18.5.2020
Bitcoin treaded water in the high $9,000 range Monday as stocks rallied and traders wondered when the cryptocurrency would break five digits again
Company That Sued FTX and Ripple Now Sets Its Sights on BitMEX
18.5.2020
BMA LLC, which two weeks ago sued Ripple, has now accused crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX of orchestrating the largest financial crime in U.S. history
USV’s Albert Wenger on the World After Capital
18.5.2020
A blueprint for redesigning society as the world shifts from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Age