5 posts tagged ‘bitcoin’
Mt. Gox Victims Report 'Double Repayments' From 2014 Bitcoin Hack
Gizmodo,
Well, that’s one way to see your investment pay off. In 2014, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, suffered a notorious hack that stole 850,000 Bitcoins from the platform. Victims are finally starting to get their money back on Tuesday, nearly 10 years later. However, some are reporting Mt. Gox… Read more...
Bitcoin ATM company Coin Cloud got hacked. Even its new owners don’t know how.
TechCrunch,
In November, the cybersecurity collective vx-underground wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that unknown hackers were claiming to have breached Coin Cloud, a bankrupt Bitcoin ATM company. According to vx-underground, the hackers claimed to have stolen 70,000 pictures of customers taken from cameras embedded in the ATMs, as well as the personal data of 300,000 customers, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
How Jane Street-backed ZetaChain aims to expand Bitcoin’s use cases
Despite its dominant market share in the crypto sphere, Bitcoin has had limited applications compared to other blockchains which have blossomed to facilitate asset transfers in everything from financial products to video games. Ethereum, for example, has close to 6,000 developers actively building on its network every month as of October 1, according to numbers […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Taproot Wizards raises $7.5M for its Ordinals project to bring the ‘magic’ back to Bitcoin
Taproot Wizards, a Bitcoin-focused Ordinals project, is trying to change the way the blockchain is perceived. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Millions of Old Bitcoin Wallets Have Critical Security Flaws, Experts Say
Bitcoin wallets older than 2016 could have a vulnerability that puts over $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency at risk, according to a report in the Washington Post. Read more...