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$30M Bitcoin Cash ‘SIM Hack’ Sparks Wild Crypto Tales With Vague Sources

23.2.2020
On February 21, the crypto Twitter commentator Dovey Wan published a series of tweets about an alleged SIM card hack that purportedly saw the loss of $30 million in bitcoin cash. The story stemmed from a Reddit post that’s now deleted and so far no one has provided any verifiable proof from...

Hacking Group Outlaw Upgrades Malware for Illicit Income Sources: Report

11.2.2020
Outlaw has been updating its toolkit to steal enterprise data for nearly half a year at this point

Coronavirus Outbreak Forces Chinese Crypto ASIC Manufacturers to Delay Orders

3.2.2020
Bitcoin mining rig deliveries from China are delayed due to the coronavirus according to a few Chinese manufacturers. Microbt and Ebang sent notices to customers via the firm’s Wechat channels. Sources say Bitmain and Innosilicon are delaying mining device shipments as well. Also read: How...

Bitmain Responds to Layoff Rumors From Ousted Co-Founder Zahn

7.1.2020
Ousted Bitmain co-founder Micree Zahn took to Weibo on Monday to speak out against a reported Bitmain “personnel optimization plan” which could purportedly see around 500 Bitmain workers dismissed by January 17. Chinese media broke the story last week citing inside sources at...

Chipmaking Giant Samsung Reveals 3nm Semiconductor Prototype

6.1.2020
In mid-December, Intel revealed that the company expects to design 2nm and 1.4 nm semiconductors by 2029. During the same timeframe, regional sources reported Canaan and Bitmain will reveal new mining rigs this year equipped with TSMC-based 5nm chips. Now, competition is growing stronger as Samsung...

EY Open-Sources Tech It Says Slashes Cost of Private Ethereum Transactions

19.12.2019
Lowering the costs of private transactions in this way makes the public ethereum blockchain more competitive with private chains, EY says

Lightning Network Wiki Page Faces Removal for Lack of Notability

13.12.2019
A slew of Wikipedia editors would like to delete the Lightning Network (LN) Wiki page because the subject matter does not hold notability. Wikipedia editors use notability as a test to find out if a topic warrants its own article. The LN article debate on Wikipedia is still raging as a few editors...

The State Encourages ICO Fraud. The Free Market Minimizes It

11.12.2019
Many Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have been and are frauds. The state enables this con game in various ways, including the establishment of accredited investors and the regulation of businesses that sell equity. Shut off from the most lucrative aspects of investment, average people rush into...

Weekly Platform News: Upgrading Navigations to HTTPS, Sale of .org Domains, New Browser Engine

5.12.2019
In this week's roundup: DuckDuckGo gets smarter encryption, a fight over the sale of dot org domains, and a new browser engine is in the works. Let's get into the news! DuckDuckGo upgrades and open-sources its encryption DuckDuckGo has open-sourced its “Smarter Encryption” technology that enables...

Film Reveals Never-Before-Seen Information About the Silk Road Case

1.12.2019
On November 26, a new Silk Road video was published that reveals underreported and never-before-seen information. The film called the “Silk Road Case: The Real, Untold Story” contains over 400 references to direct evidence from a wide range of sources. The organization Freeross.org...

Crypto Employees in China Work From Home to Avoid Government Pressure

29.11.2019
Not too long after embracing blockchain, Beijing has made it clear, one way or the other, that it didn’t mean Bitcoin. Increased scrutiny over the cryptocurrency sector and harsh measures against some companies have been implemented to supposedly protect citizens from scams. Sources say...

Why Not Pay Sources for Stories? — Asks Blockchain Media Startup

20.11.2019
BLOCKTV wants to pay people for helping it tell meaningful stories about the blockchain space, even though established journalistic norms say not to

Russia Blocks 2 Crypto News Websites

19.10.2019
Russian authorities have restricted access to a couple of cryptocurrency news outlets. The formal reasons for the censorship move are different in each case but the end result is the same. In both, regulators have acted on the basis of a law that empowers them to block online sources of information...

4 New High-Powered Bitcoin Miners Revealed

12.10.2019
Bitmain Technologies and Canaan Creative have announced new mining rigs that process roughly 58-73 terahash per second (TH/s). Sources also reveal that Canaan’s initial public offering (IPO) could be listed in the U.S. next month. Also Read: Mining Firm Canaan Creative Secures Hundreds...

Chinese Mining Giant Canaan to Go Public in US in November: Sources

11.10.2019
Chinese crypto mining giant Canaan Creative plans to be listed as a publicly traded company in the U.S. in November 2019, sources say

Russia Regulates Digital Rights, Advances Other Crypto-Related Bills

4.10.2019
After much deliberation in the past months and years, Moscow has recently taken important steps toward regulating the crypto space. These are part of the efforts to open the way for the development of the Russian digital economy. The country, heavily dependent on energy exports and hurt by Western...

Video Shows $10M Chinese Bitcoin Mining Farm in Flames

1.10.2019
During the early morning hours of September 30, a nine-minute video circulated on Twitter showing a large bitcoin mining farm burning down. Sources say the mining farm belonged to the company Innosilicon and roughly $10 million worth of mining rigs were destroyed. Also Read: Central Banks in Panic...