A Beginner’s Guide to the Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
Electrum is one of Bitcoin’s most popular wallets. It uniquely walks the fine line between beginner usability and expert functionality. This guide introduces Electrum with step-by-step examples highlighting the most important beginner features. No previous...
Proof of Keys Explained: Bitcoin’s First Planned ‘Bank Run’ Is Today
Do your bitcoins really exist?
The answer might seem like an obvious “yes,” but the brewing “Proof of Keys” movement, launching today, argues the answer is not so clear.
How in control a person is of...
Happy 10th Birthday: How Bitcoin started and flourished
Bitcoin celebrates 10 years!
When the increasing impact of the digital economy in our daily lives areconsidered, as opposed to popular belief on the media, it was not a surprising development that most of the...
Phishing Attack on Electrum Wallet Nets Hacker Almost $1 Million in Hours: Report
A reportedly ongoing hack against cryptocurrency wallet Electrum has seen a malicious party steal almost 250 Bitcoin (BTC) (about $937,000), commentators reported on social media Dec. 27.
Subsequently confirmed by Electrum itself, the attack consists of creating a fake version of the wallet...
Whitfield Diffie Talks Cryptography ‘Resurgence’ and Blockchain
“This is very fulfilling because when you thought the subject must have run its course, it flares up again.”
Those words, from cryptography legend Whitfield Diffie, perhaps captured the essence of the first day...
Coinbase Now Lets You Convert your Altcoins into Bitcoin Coinbase Now Lets You Convert...
Want to convert your altcoins to bitcoins this Christmas? Coinbase has launched Coinbase Convert, a new feature that allows retail users to make direct crypto-to-crypto conversions on the exchange.
Quick Crypto Conversions
The new feature, which...
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Litigation
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are gaining more attention as days pass. Aside from the advantages that cryptocurrencies have like anonymity and easy international transactions, people are enticed by the fact that it can become a good investment. Apart...
Hacker backdoors popular JavaScript library to steal Bitcoin funds
A hacker has gained (legitimate) access to a popular JavaScript library and has injected malicious code that steals Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash funds stored inside BitPay's Copay wallet apps.
The presence of this malicious code...
Bitcoin Didn’t Die 323 Times. Just Twice.
There’s an interesting web page called “Bitcoin Obituaries” which says that Bitcoin has died 323 times. The idea is that each time someone claims Bitcoin is dead, its actually just a minor bump in the road,...