Monero Fork Underway In Bid to Block Big Miners
A hard fork of privacy-centric cryptocurrency monero executed this morning, but the success of the roll-out is still unclear.
At block number 1546000 (08.20 UTC...
PSA: electrum.com bought by scammers to distribute alleged “Electrum Pro” coin stealing malware
The official website remains https://electrum.org
The scammers seem to have offered quite a chunk of money to buy electrum.com which was previously used by someone in...
Hong Kong Exchange OKEx Rolls Back Futures Transactions
Hong Kong–based cryptocurrency trading platform OKEx announced on March 30 that it was rolling back on all futures transactions due to what executives deemed...
Stellar Gears Up to Implement Lightning Network
Last week, on March 15, 2018, Lightning Labs unveiled their beta for the Lightning Network in a flash of media attention and enthusiasm. The Lightning Network has been...
The 9 Biggest Screwups in Bitcoin History
Do you know where your bitcoins are right now? Hopefully they're still in your wallet where you left them, but the history of bitcoin...
Binance Claims Hackers Lost Money in Stealing Attempt; ONT Trading to Begin Soon
While hacking rumors at the biggest crypto exchange by trading volume, Binance, led to panic in the community, an official statement claims that all funds are...
Bitcoin price drops 10% as hackers exploit Binance’s API keys
Welcome to another rollercoaster day for the cryptocurrency community. In just a few minutes, bitcoin price crashed from $10,740 to $9,690, which represents a 10.8 percent...
Bitcoin’s Famed Tokyo Whale Sold $400 Million and He’s Not Done Yet
He’s not your typical Bitcoin whale, but Nobuaki Kobayashi has become a force to be reckoned with in the cryptocurrency world.
The Tokyo attorney and...
Cryptocurrency Exchange Poloniex Has Been Bought by Circle
Payment company Circle has announced that it has purchased Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange. Rumors of the acquisition had been circulating for weeks, and were finally...
Bitcoin.org Owner Asks the Community to Change Bitcoin’s Central PoW Algorithm
This week the owner of the web portal Bitcoin.org and Bitcointalk, a pseudonym called Cobra wrote an open letter to the bitcoin community asking...
