Financial authorities in Kazakhstan have targeted at least five online platforms exchanging cryptocurrencies outside the law. Documents, computer equipment, and cryptocurrency wallets have been seized during searches in the northern…
Continue ReadingThe hacker accumulated as much as $90 million worth of crypto from wallets with weak private keys during a six-year thieving spree. A hacker dubbed the “Blockchain Bandit” has finally…
Continue ReadingSeven major banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo, have reportedly teamed up to launch a digital wallet that will compete with other third-party wallet providers such…
Continue ReadingEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a research post that suggests using stealth addresses to enhance privacy-preserving transfers. Buterin detailed that stealth addresses can be implemented fairly quickly today on Ethereum…
Continue ReadingThe financial monitoring agency of Ukraine has restricted access to a number of online crypto exchangers operating out of Russia. Some of the coin trading platforms are working with sanctioned…
Continue ReadingRight now, Bitcoin is a day away from matching a nearly 10-year-old record and Ethereum could hit a significant milestone by Q2. The world’s first cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) is one…
Continue ReadingTo avoid becoming victims of an address poisoning attack, Metamask wallet users should ditch the practice of copying and pasting wallet addresses, the crypto wallet app support team has warned.…
Continue ReadingThe agency overseeing the financial sector in Germany has issued a warning about the ‘Godfather’ malware attacking banking and crypto applications. Hundreds of these platforms have been targeted, the regulator…
Continue ReadingAccording to onchain research, wallets connected to Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced co-founder of FTX, transferred a significant number of previously unreported transactions across various blockchains. The transfers were discovered by…
Continue ReadingA draft law devoted to the digital ruble has been filed with the State Duma, the lower house of Russian parliament. The legislation introduces rules determining how the new form…
Continue ReadingOn Dec. 27, 2022, a number of onchain researchers noticed that funds connected to Alameda Research and FTX have moved and have been swapped for other tokens. Reports show the…
Continue ReadingThe blockchain executive urged users who downloaded the BitKeep 7.2.9. APK malware to transfer their assets immediately. According to a letter posted on Chinese blockchain news publisher Odaily.com on Dec.…
Continue ReadingThe enforcement of a requirement for brokers to report gains made by crypto investors has been postponed by the U.S. Treasury Department and the IRS. The new tax rules, incorporated…
Continue ReadingThe European Central Bank (ECB) has published a new report on the progress of its investigation into the possible launch of a digital euro. The research will continue next year…
Continue ReadingThe Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is now using a digital tool allowing officers to link cryptocurrency wallets to their owners. The software also has a feature facilitating the monitoring…
Continue ReadingOn Wednesday, non-fungible token (NFT) supporters discovered that NFT metadata hosted on the platform FTX US points to broken metadata, and the links now point to FTX’s restructuring website. Specific…
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, the hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger announced the launch of a new device called Ledger Stax. The machine was designed by iPod creator, Tony Fadell, and the France-based firm…
Continue ReadingThe company unveiled a new stylish hardware wallet designed by a former Apple engineer at a Paris event today. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has announced a new…
Continue ReadingAccording to Transak, users of the Coinbase self-custody wallet in South East Asia can now use its Web3 onboarding platform “as a fiat on-ramp to buy crypto.” Transak’s integration with…
Continue ReadingThe Electrum wallet allows Bitcoiners to interact with the protocol in ways that do not limit or sacrifice more detailed features for a friendlier interface. This is an opinion editorial…
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, amid the many conversations concerning crypto exchange proof-of-reserves, Kraken executive Jesse Powell shared a screenshot of coinmarketcap.com’s newly launched proof-of-reserves (POR) dashboard. Powell said he planned to be…
Continue ReadingDuring the last week, the crypto community has been dealing with the demise of FTX and its affiliated crypto businesses, and ever since then, the proof-of-reserves topic has found its…
Continue ReadingConfidence in centralized exchanges appears to be waning as Bitcoin flows into self-custody wallets at near-record levels. Bitcoin (BTC) investors have been increasingly moving their holdings to self-custody solutions following…
Continue ReadingAccording to a Consensys blog post published on October 11, the Ethereum-based wallet Metamask has added instant bank-to-crypto transfers via the automated clearing house (ACH) settlement merchant Sardine. Metamask Users…
Continue ReadingEuropean Parliament’s economic committee has backed the adoption of the comprehensive Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation. It has also supported the introduction of rules for tracing cryptocurrency transfers, part…
Continue ReadingAn array of crypto-related services have been targeted in the latest round of sanctions on Russia approved by the EU. The measures are part of an expected tightening of the…
Continue ReadingWith the new Ethereumpow (ETHW) network launch, ethereum holders are eligible to receive a single ETHW for every ether they own. The following is a simple guide that shows ethereum…
Continue ReadingThe American financial services company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Robinhood Markets, Inc., announced the launch of a new non-custodial Web3 crypto wallet on Tuesday and said the product supports…
Continue ReadingMost wallets feel like they were created for developers. That’s becoming a bigger problem in terms of both practicality and security as crypto adoption increases. After Ethereum’s long-awaited Merge, it’s…
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, the non-profit technology consortium, the Linux Foundation, announced the launch of the Openwallet Foundation (OWF) in order to bolster the development of open-source crypto wallets. OWF’s goal is…
Continue ReadingTwo Bitcoiners explain their custody journey and invite others to reflect upon their own steps to claiming their sovereignty. This is an opinion editorial by Mark Maraia, an entrepreneur, author…
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