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Redditor's hacked Bitcoin is a lesson on the hidden dangers of paper wallets
27.7.2023
"My Bitcoin was taken. How?" A Reddit user thought they were following best practices until two days ago when their Bitcoin wallet was completely cleaned out
A Crypto Lesson From George Soros Amid Binance and Coinbase Accusations
14.6.2023
Positioning and expectations explain why the Binance case drove prices down but markets rebounded after Coinbase
Ledger’s Hard Lesson: Being Right Isn't Good Enough
19.5.2023
Public communication doesn’t work like computer code. The French hardware wallet maker learned that the hard way
GREED Token Is Not a Crypto Scam, but a Lesson on How to Get Scammed Amid Meme Coin Mania
15.5.2023
Despite multiple warnings from Voshy, the meme coin's creator, speculators turned over Twitter permissions to get access to the token. They got a valuable lesson in account security
Not funny: Comedy club NFT debacle teaches lesson in transparency
28.4.2023
What started with a comedy club would later become a notorious case of legal loopholes and frustration for the nonfungible token community
Web2’s Lesson for AI: Decentralize to Protect Humanity
14.4.2023
In order to prevent the potentially destructive impact of AI on humanity, we need open-source innovation and collective governance that is possible through blockchain protocols and Web3, rather than the monopoly defaulting structure of Web2, according to Michael Casey, CoinDesk's chief content...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Learns Hard Lesson: Don't Mess With Disney Lawyers
31.3.2023
As you may have heard, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has been culture-war feuding with one of Florida’s more famous corporate tenants, The Walt Disney Company. Earlier this year, DeSantis directed the state to take over control of the special district where Disney World is located. As such...
An Ode to LocalBitcoins (and a Lesson About Maintaining Bitcoin's Public Goods)
10.2.2023
‘Tracers in the Dark’ presents a fun crime story — and lesson in privacy
2.1.2023
Want to keep the government from snooping on your transactional history? Start studying the forensics of crime and privacy on the blockchain
TikTok: how data changed one dev's discovery tactics
30.11.2022
Also: a 'premium mobile' lesson, and plenty of new platform news
SEC Could Use BlockFi as Object Lesson for Clear Crypto Regulation, Says Ex-SEC Official
30.11.2022
Howard Fischer, a Moses Singer LLP partner, discusses why the SEC is more concerned with regulating crypto than getting the $30 million BlockFi owes the agency
Ripple CTO Says One Important Lesson From FTX Meltdown ‘Will Not Be Learned’
24.11.2022
A Ripple executive says there is one important lesson from the meltdown of crypto exchange FTX that he “can say with total confidence will not be learned.” The executive added: “Regulation that punishes after the fact won’t catch it. Investor due diligence won’t...
FTX lesson: Crypto needs the press, the press needs crypto
11.11.2022
CoinDesk played a central role in this week’s FTX meltdown, following our coverage of Alameda Research’s suspect balance sheet last week. But the crypto industry's maturation and eventual success requires that we flesh out these unstable structures and bad practices
Lesson From the US Elections: Don't Mention Crypto
3.11.2022
Crypto isn't apparently faring well this year as a political topic in midterm congressional campaigns. A remarkable few candidates have been willing to say anything at all about digital assets in public, though plenty have assured the industry privately about what they’d do for crypto and that...
Lesson learned? Sky Mavis teams up with Google Cloud to avoid another Ronin hack
9.9.2022
Google Cloud will be an independent enterprise validator for Ronin in a node pool along with Animoca Brands, DappRadar and Nansen
Terra's Collapse Is a Hard Lesson for Sloppy Crypto VCs and Gullible Retail Investors
31.7.2022
It’s not the greatest time to be a venture capitalist (VC) in crypto. Many of them have seen both the value of their investments and reputation plummet, as projects they were actively promoting, such as Terra, failed spectacularly, hitting the whole crypto industry. ...
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EU Regulator Warns About Crypto — Questions Whether Many Will Survive
14.7.2022
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Chair Verena Ross says that the crypto market crash should be a “cautionary lesson” for investors. She noted that there is a “real question” about whether many crypto assets will survive. ESMA Chair on Crypto Risks...
Peter Schiff Gets an Unexpected Lesson in the Benefits of Bitcoin as Banking Woes Bite
4.7.2022
The arch-Bitcoin (BTC) skeptic Peter Schiff has experienced problems with the traditional international banking system – giving BTC advocates the opportunity to tell him that his struggles could have been avoided had he made use of bitcoin.
Schiff has become infamous in the world of crypto...
Can a lesson in bimetallism help the long-term stability of Bitcoin and privacy coins?
28.5.2022
Will the potential long-term bear market of 2022 begin the push for increased privacy for people exchanging cryptocurrencies?
DeFiance Founder's USD 1.76M Loss is a Lesson For NFT Investors
22.3.2022
Founder of the cryptoasset fund DeFiance Capital, Arthur Cheong, has seen one of his hot wallets compromised, resulting in the loss of over 70 blue-chip non-fungible tokens (NFTs) worth over USD 1.76m. The incident is another stark reminder for all NFT investors to be extra careful - and less...