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SEC Disapproves BOX Security’s Request to Report Stock Trading Data on Ethereum Blockchain
28.12.2020
BOX proposed a rule change to the SEC for using the Ethereum blockchain to record and publishing end-of-day securities ownership balances
Bitcoin whales are buying more aggressively since Christmas, data finds
28.12.2020
High-net-worth investors, or whales, have been buying Bitcoin more aggressively since Christmas, on-chain data show
Why you wouldn’t eat chicken nuggets, and why you shouldn’t trust Big Data
28.12.2020
Do you really know how your data is used and monetized? If you did, you’d probably think twice about giving your personal details away so freely
Bitcoin Derivatives Action Swells: A Few June Futures Trade for $30K, Deribit Adds $140K Options Strike
27.12.2020
Bitcoin derivatives markets have been seeing significant demand in recent months at the same time bitcoin spot markets climbed to all-time price highs and surged 149% during the last three months. Just recently the leading bitcoin options exchange Deribit announced the launch of both $120k...
10-Year-Old Block Rewards Wake Up: Data Parsers Catch a String of 1,000 ‘Satoshi Era’ Bitcoins from 2010 Spent Today
27.12.2020
On December 27, at around 2 a.m. in the morning (EST), another large string of decade-old sleeping bitcoins was transferred. The miner spent 20 block rewards that were originally mined in 2010, and also spent the corresponding bitcoin cash block rewards as well. The bitcoins moved are worth well...
A Utility Class for Covering Elements
26.12.2020
Big ol’ same to Michelle Barker here:
Here’s something I find myself needing to do again and again in CSS: completely covering one element with another. It’s the same CSS every time: the first element (the one that needs to be covered) has position: relative applied to it....
Data Leaks, Regulatory "Fun" and 20 Crypto Jokes
26.12.2020
In the week leading to the holidays, a Twitter exchange between Elon Musk and Michael Saylor added fuel to the BTC rally, but shortly, as BTC dropped below USD 23K, and then it went back up. You know, the usual. But then serious problems hit the fan for Ledger and their users when personal info...
Responsible, Conditional Loading
25.12.2020
Over on the Polyplane blog (there’s no byline but presumably it’s Kilian Valkhof), there is a great article, Creating websites with prefers-reduced-data, about the prefers-reduced-data media query. No browser support yet, but eventually you can use it in CSS to make choices that reduce...
Despite Bitcoin’s Price Highs, Onchain Data Shows BTC Miners Are Not Spending More Than Usual
25.12.2020
The cryptocurrency economy has been higher in value than ever before as bitcoin has touched an all-time price high at $24,298 per unit. Regardless of the all-time price highs, the world’s bitcoin miners are not spending more bitcoin than usual according to onchain statistics. Bitcoin miner...
DeFi data manipulation is too easy — and current oracle solutions aren’t helping much
24.12.2020
DeFi exploits are too common for mass adoption. But there are solutions to the oracle problem
Ledger data leak: A ‘simple mistake’ exposed 270K crypto wallet buyers
24.12.2020
Ledger wallet users face mounting home invasion and other scareware threats as hacker dumps private customer information online
From SIM Swaps to Home-Invasion Threats, Ledger Leak Has Cascading Consequences
23.12.2020
The incident shows the variety of ways data can be used to hurt people, and raises questions about how and if certain data should be retained at all
Who's playing what on PlayStation 5?
22.12.2020
We have some data for that!
How The Web is Really Built
22.12.2020
My 2020 was colored by the considerable amount of time I spent analyzing data about CSS usage in the wild, for the CSS chapter of the Web Almanac, by the HTTP Archive. The results were eye-opening to me. A wake-up call of sorts. We spend so much time in the bubble of bleeding-edge tech that we lose...
Ledger Leak Invokes Legal Action, One Customer Allegedly Threatened With Home Invasion
21.12.2020
Just recently, reports of the Ledger customer database breach being dumped on Raidforums for free has become a viral story among cryptocurrency proponents. Now customers are threatening to take legal action against the hardware wallet manufacturer, and one customer has complained of getting...
Converting and Optimizing Images From the Command Line
21.12.2020
Images take up to 50% of the total size of an average web page. And if images are not optimized, users end up downloading extra bytes. And if they’re downloading extra bytes, the site not only takes that much more time to load, but users are using more data, both of which can be resolved, at least...
Ledger Database Dump: Was My Data Leaked and What To Do Next?
21.12.2020
Following the hackers' massive dump of customers' personal information stolen from France-based major hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger, the Cryptoverse has been hard at work providing ways for users to check if they've been included in the breach, as well as suggestions on what to do next. They...
Ledger Wallet Data Leak Dumped on Raidforums for Free, Company Regrets the Situation
21.12.2020
Just recently, the hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has been dealing with a lot of criticism for the e-commerce customer data leak that took place last June. The data contained the emails of a million Ledger wallet customers, and thousands of clients had additional information leaked like phone...
Ledger users threaten legal action after hacker dumps personal data
20.12.2020
A cybersecurity expert claimed the affected users would be targeted online and in person now that their personal information had been made public
Bitcoin Addresses Holding $1 Million Goes ‘Parabolic,’ 10% of BTC Supply Sits Idle for 10 Years
18.12.2020
While bitcoin trades above the $20k handle, onchain data shows that the number of bitcoin addresses holding at least $1 million has climbed substantially increasing by more than 150%. Moreover, Glassnode’s statistics indicate that roughly 1.85 million bitcoin hasn’t moved in over...