Ethereum is gearing up to launch its first-ever hackathon, dubbed "Attackathon," with a $2 million reward pool. The Ethereum Protocol Security (EPS) research team announced this event in a statement published on July 8, 2024. According to the team,...
Recent data from blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence reveals that a cryptocurrency wallet associated with the German government still holds approximately 38,488 Bitcoin (BTC), valued at about $2.19 billion. This substantial holding comes despite the German government's recent sales...
Japanese investment firm MetaPlanet has significantly increased its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings, purchasing 42.47 BTC for over 400 million yen (approximately $2.8 million USD), according to a press release issued on Monday, July 8, 2024. This acquisition brings the firm's...
The Bitcoin Core developers have unveiled a new policy focused on disclosing "critical bugs" in a move to improve the communication of Bitcoin security vulnerabilities. This announcement came in a message to the Bitcoin Development Mailing List on July...
General Bytes, Prague-based company that manufactures Bitcoin ATMs and has sold 15,000 units in over 149 countries, has shut down its cloud services due to a security vulnerability that allowed a hacker to access customers' hot wallets and steal...
According to a chart released by Crypto ATM Radar, more than 400 Bitcoin ATMs have gone offline in the first two months of 2023. In January, 289 machines stopped operating, and in February, 123 more were taken offline, making...
Deribit, the world's largest Bitcoin and Ethereum options exchange by trading volume, has announced its intentions to offer Bitcoin volatility futures. Luke Strijers, Deribit's Chief Commercial Officer, told verifiable sources today, March 1, 2023, that users would be able...
Ever since the release of the Bitcoin whitepaper over a decade ago, the interest in blockchain technology has grown exponentially. The space is maturing and now covers a myriad of projects, cryptocurrencies, smart contract functionalities, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Non-Fungible...
The highly anticipated upgrade of Bitcoin was activated on Sunday the 14th day of November 2021 at block 709,632. This is a major update happening right after Segwit, a major update in 2017 which helped bitcoin to scale. Just...
Financial services provider, Square, is planning to build an open-source Bitcoin mining system and has begun investigating the technical requirements. This is according to CEO Jack Dorsey who shared a series of tweets explaining that he plans to follow...
