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How Researchers Used GM Car Crash Data And Frozen To Explain A Grisly 62-Year-Old Mystery
30.1.2021
I am a fan of the strange and unusual, so when our Editor-in-Chief Rory Carroll spotted this fascinating story in National Geographic about the Dyatlov Pass incident, he immediately sent it to me. He was right to do so, as this is one of my favorite mysteries and it seems it may have actually...
IMF Says Only 23% of Central Banks Can Legally Issue Digital Currencies
17.1.2021
Researchers at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have examined the central bank laws of 174 IMF members to answer the question of whether a digital currency is really money. They found that of all the central banks studied, only about 23%, or 40 central banks, “are legally allowed...
Researchers warn 3 apps have been stealing crypto undetected for a year
7.1.2021
Three crypto based apps have concealed a nasty surprise for those that have downloaded them
Researchers 'Trap' Frontrunning Bots Spying On Ethereum Transactions
30.12.2020
It is critical to understand malicious software known as frontrunning bots that spy on other people’s crypto transactions in order to make hefty profits at others’ expense, according to mobile wallet maker ZenGo. Only then, developers could build more secure systems.
One popular example...
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...
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,...
Crypto Billionaires: Ripple’s Jed McCaleb World’s 40th Richest Person, Cofounder Sells 29 Million XRP Last Week
11.12.2020
According to onchain data analytics researchers, one of the founders of the company Ripple, Jed McCaleb allegedly sold 29.5 million XRP in a single day. McCaleb, an early cryptocurrency investor, and self-made entrepreneur is one of the richest men on the planet. There are a number of investors...
University's epic burn: Researchers say Ripple's protocol ‘may fail badly’
4.12.2020
According to researchers at the University of Bern, the presence of faulty or malicious nodes on the Ripple network could have “devastating effects.”
Onchain Researchers Suspect Chinese Government Sold Plustoken’s Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Hoard Last Year
2.12.2020
A number of masterminds from the Plustoken scam were sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding cryptocurrency investors. Last week, on November 19, a court ruling had shown the Chinese government said that it seized over $4 billion in crypto assets from the Plustoken scam. Meanwhile, onchain...
New Research Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Lived in London Creating Bitcoin
26.11.2020
The hunt for the mysterious Bitcoin inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto continues to this day, as new data-driven research has been recently deployed in order to figure out the creator’s location while he/she or they worked on the network. The researchers analyzed Satoshi’s 539 Bitcointalk...
Calling Tops and Bottoms: 2020’s Most Popular Bitcoin Traders and Analysts
15.11.2020
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading is quite popular these days. With the price upswings and volatility in 2020, crypto traders have made and lost a lot of money. In the last few years, a number of digital currency enthusiasts have been attracted to professional traders and analysts routinely...
Researchers question what 'trustless' actually means for blockchain
27.10.2020
Blockchain allegedly eliminates the need for trust — but how far is this notion actually true, or helpful?
Downvoted: Security Researchers Slam Voatz Over Stance on White-Hat Hackers
6.10.2020
A broad ruling on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could “chill” security research by white-hat hackers, making tech less secure
Cumulative Ethereum Transaction Fees in 2020 Supersede Bitcoin’s by a Long Shot
30.9.2020
This week the research and analysis team Coin Metrics published a report on how decentralized finance (defi) is “fueling Ethereum’s growth.” Meanwhile, the researchers also highlighted that Ethereum’s cumulative transaction fees in 2020 are now over $350 million and more...
Don’t Have a Fast Bot? Beware of Initial DEX Offerings, Researchers Warn
29.9.2020
Despite a focus on “fairer distribution” of newly issued tokens, so-called Initial DEX Offerings (IDOs) tend to benefit only the most advanced traders, much in the same way as the now-infamous Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) of 2017, a crypto research firm Messari warned.
The warning comes on...
East Asia Dominates World’s Onchain Crypto Activity, Europe and North America Trail Behind
19.9.2020
Crypto activity continues to flourish worldwide, according to a new cryptocurrency adoption index published by the blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis. The researchers compile onchain digital currency retail value transferred, onchain crypto deposits, peer-to-peer exchange volume, and other...
Bitcoin Options Traders Bet the Price of BTC Can Touch $36K by December
14.9.2020
This past weekend, data shows the most active bitcoin options contracts were calls for $28k, $32k, and $36k by the year’s end. This means a number of options traders are betting the price of bitcoin will exceed the all-time high (ATH) the decentralized currency touched in December 2017....
Researchers identify 10 security flaws with SushiSwap
3.9.2020
As yield farmers race to reap fast returns from the next hot Uniswap clone, security researchers caution about the risks of unaudited smart contracts
Researchers are calling this new malware a triple threat for crypto users
2.9.2020
The surrounding threat level is low, but there are fears it could increase
Over $1 Billion Ethereum-Based Tokens Vulnerable to ‘Fake Deposit Exploit’
28.8.2020
A number of university researchers published a study that demystifies the “fake deposit vulnerability” in Ethereum-based smart contracts. The findings show that over 7,000 tokens worth more than $1 billion built on top of Ethereum are vulnerable to two types of attacks that exploit...