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Analysis Shows Bitcoin Whales Are Stockpiling, but ‘BTC Ownership Is Not Highly Concentrated’

4.2.2021
During the last few months, a few reports from mainstream media (MSM) outlets tried to prove that a large sum of bitcoin is controlled by a small group of people. Recently, Bloomberg claimed that “2% of accounts control 95% of all bitcoin,” a claim that doesn’t hold weight...

Research Proves Recent Transfers of 8,000 Ten-Year-Old ‘Forgotten Bitcoins’ Were Sold to Coinbase

27.1.2021
For months now our newsdesk has followed the tracks of a mysterious whale from 2010, a miner who not only mined thousands of bitcoin back in the day, but has also spent over 8,000 bitcoin during the past ten months. This week, the Russian blockchain researcher, Issak Shvarts published a report...

Two Rubygems Infected With Crypto-Stealing Feature Malware Spotted by Researchers

19.12.2020
New infected Rubygems packages have been spotted in its open-source software repository and which contained malicious code mainly used to steal cryptocurrencies from users via supply chain attack. Two Cryptocurrency-Stealers Rubygems Detected by Researchers at Sonatype According to Ax Sharma,...

Researcher Publishes Never Before Seen Emails Between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney

28.11.2020
Just recently three previously unpublished emails from Bitcoin’s inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, have been made public. The emails reveal the correspondence between Satoshi and the early Bitcoin developer Hal Finney. The communications between Nakamoto and Finney stem from November 2008...

US Fed researcher says CBDCs should beat Big Tech payments on privacy protection

23.11.2020
The paper also put forward CBDCs as solutions to high transaction fees and the energy use of mining cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin

Report: Blockchain Price Oracle Manipulation Produces Millions in Losses, Shows No Signs of Slowing

12.11.2020
On November 9, a writer from the website samczsun.com published a report that shows a number of issues with price oracle manipulation stemming from a few blockchain applications. The researcher notes that price oracle manipulation has resulted in “over $30 [million] in losses so far.”...

DeFi needs more fixed-rate lending protocols: Messari researcher

29.10.2020
Researcher argues that fixed rate lending and borrowing would bring DeFi closer to traditional finance

Ethereum researcher Virgil Griffith files motion to dismiss North Korea conspiracy charge

24.10.2020
Griffith argues that because his April 2019 conference presentation consisted of widely-available public information, he was not providing a "service" to North Korean officials

A researcher debunks Stock-to-Flow model, likens Bitcoin to a 'tech stock'

8.10.2020
"There are many reasons why the price of Bitcoin can rise or fall, but S2F is not one of them”, contends report author

Researcher suggests miners are manipulating Ethereum blocks to exploit DeFi

1.10.2020
Miner Extractable Value is no longer just a theoretical concept

Ethereum Might Face Supply Squeeze - Researcher

2.9.2020
With the roll-out of staking on Ethereum (ETH), as well as DeFi protocols like yearn.finance (YFI) introducing ETH vaults, the market for the second-most valuable cryptoasset may be about to get significantly tighter, US-based crypto research firm Delphi Digital has warned. The case for what...

Ethereum vulnerable to frontrunners: Researcher

31.8.2020
Bots abound

Darknet Giant Empire Market Offline for 36 Hours, Blame Cast at Massive DDoS Attack

23.8.2020
According to a number of sources, one of the largest darknet markets in the world, Empire Market has been offline for well over 36 hours. The researcher and analyst Dark.fail has been tweeting about the subject, as the market hasn’t been down for this long since 2019. It seems the popular...

Researcher Re-mined Satoshi's Bitcoin Blocks To Discover His Secrets

23.8.2020
Satoshi Nakamoto used a single PC to mine 1.1M Bitcoin

Bitcoin Users Leery of Tor: 23% of the Network’s Exit Capacity Compromised

13.8.2020
Hackers are stealing bitcoin through the large-scale use of malicious relays on the Tor network according to a newly published research report on the subject. The researcher dubbed “nusenu” said he warned people about the growing problem in December 2019 but instead of improving...