Sergio Demian Lerner, a computer security researcher has revealed that Bitcoin’s creator used a single computer to mine an estimated 1 million bitcoin minted in the early days. Lerner’s latest research “The Patoshi Mining Machine” looks into whether or not the Patoshi pattern (Satoshi’s mining) was done by multiple computers […]

According to a court filing called “Edward Snowden Speaking Engagements 2015-2020,” the infamous NSA whistleblower was paid to discuss the cryptocurrency and other digital assets at virtual conferences during the last few years. The document submitted to the court on August 14, 2020, discusses Snowden’s speaking engagements and how he […]

Empire Market, the largest cryptocurrency darknet market, abruptly shut down, having stolen user funds amounting to over $30 million in BTC. The marketplace went offline on August 20, no notifications was issued from the marketplace admins. This appears to be a pretty massive exit scam, according to the latest update […]

“Army” of over 6,000 hackers is at North Korea disposal, for carrying out cyber warfare, according to the recent report published by the U.S. Army. The report claims that a lion part of hacker groups are operating outside North Korea as the country lacks the domestic infrastructure to support full-scale […]

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong claims that tech giant Apple is blocking some functionalities for cryptocurrencies, including money making options and unrestricted dApp browsers “Apple has been very restrictive and hostile to cryptocurrency over the years. They’re still blocking some functionality right now, including the ability to earn money with cryptocurrency […]

New Payments Platform Australia (NPPA), Australia’s new real-time payments system is accusing Ripple of intellectual property infringement over the branding of Ripple’s ‘PayID’ payment standard.More than 60 Australian banks currently use NPPA. Operators of Australia’s interbank payments network ‘Pay ID’ had filed a suit with the Federal Court of Australia […]

Italian based pornography startup PornVisory is shifting to a decentralized governance structure based on the ​DFO standard, which allegedly allows greater user influence than DAOs. DFO (decentralized flexible organization) standart will allow token holders to propose changes and vote on governance aspects that will be subject to community voting. Platform users […]

The Bolivarian Council of Mayors in Venezuela signed “National Tax Harmonization Agreement”, including oil-backed cryptocurrency Petro as a means to collect payments of taxes and sanctions. Delcy Rodríguez, the vice president of Venezuela, will be in charge of implementing a single registry of taxpayers through a digital consultation tool. The […]

Florida teenager Graham Ivan Clark who stands accused of playing a part in the massive Twitter hack that occurred last week pleaded not guilty to all charges. Clark was indicted on a slew of fraud charges last week, accused of illegally gaining access to the Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, […]

OneCoin investors representing plaintiffs Donald Berdeaux and Christine Grablis have agreed to settle with Konstantin Ignatov, Onecoin co-mastermind. Ignotov is no longer one of the key defendants in legal actions brought by victims of the $4 billion scam. The case will continue to target another key OneCoin figure Ignatov’s sister […]