Popular paper wallet app falls prey to mysterious vulnerabilitydecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Ben Munster A deadly vulnerability in WalletGenerator, a service that generates printable private and public keys for storing cryptocurrencies, could affect …
Facebook Facebook’s cryptocurrency to roll out in 2020decryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Ben Munster FacebookCoin—or “GlobalCoin,” as it’s been dubbed internally—will roll out in a dozen countries in 2020, and will undergo live testing by the end of …
Sequoia Capital Binance CEO in second-round court battle against VC giant Sequoia Capitaldecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Ben Munster Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is taking Sequoia Capital back to court. Zhao says an injunction the VC firm brought against him in 2017 unfairly exploited …
Business Unstoppable Domains raises $4 million to make “uncensorable websites” a realitydecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Guillermo Jimenez Imagine a digital world in which no website can ever be taken down—and no content can ever be censored—by anyone other than the web domain’s …
Blockchain Cosmos: how it gets the vote outdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Tim Copeland Blockchain governance is hard to pull off. The EOS platform for instance uses a voting mechanism to determine how the platform evolves. The problem? …
Bitcoin Cash Roger Ver and Craig Wright: new hullabaloodecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Adriana Hamacher ST JULIAN’S, MALTA—Nothing makes Roger Ver madder than the mere mention of his nemesis, self-proclaimed “Bitcoin inventor” Craig Wright. “Too bad this …
Ethereum How Loopring and 0x are competing to build the first serious DEXdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Tim Copeland The race to build a scalable decentralized exchange (DEX) is on. DEXs match buyers to sellers and facilitate trading without a third party. 0x and …
Founder of defunct Cryptopia exchange has already founded a new onedecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Ben Munster It appears that the founder of the recently hacked and shuttered Cryptopia exchange has already founded a new one. Adam Clark, Cryptopia’s founder and …
Business UK financial watchdog warns investors after £27m lost to crypto scamsdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Adriana Hamacher Cryptocurrency and foreign exchange (forex) scams tripled in the last financial year, according to new data from the UK financial watchdog, the …
Bitcoin Craig Wright claims patent for Bitcoin white paperdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Ben Munster Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright announced Tuesday that the US Copyright Office had granted him a copyright registration for the …
Bitfinex Bitfinex and Ethfinex create Tokinex—to run even more IEOsdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Tim Copeland The new, rebranded ICO is in full swing. Initial exchange offerings, or IEOs, have brought the controversial form of fundraising back to life under a …
Investing Kraken to offer stock to accredited investorsdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Ben Munster Crypto exchange Kraken will soon be selling tokenized stock via “Bnk to the Future,” a regulation-compliant investment platform that lets let …
Business SEC again delays ruling on VanEck Bitcoin ETF, surprising no onedecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Guillermo Jimenez The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission took its sweet time on this one, but the result on the the latest Bitcoin ETF proposal was the same—which …
Vitalik Buterin Vitalik Buterin’s secret: How to store your seed phrasedecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Adriana Hamacher Vitalk Buterin, Ethereum’s co-founder and all-’round crypto-genius,’ took to Twitter over the weekend to decry the increasing popularity of, what he …
Bitcoin Forget the Game of Thrones finale! Tether sits atop the Iron Throne in Crypterosdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Ben Munster Bitcoin has now redipped to below $8,000, but has still largely recovered from last week’s $1,000 correction—hooray! And one of the reasons, as …
Bribery Live at ETH NY: It’s Vitalik Buterin!decryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Tim Copeland It’s actually kind of wonderful that one of the smartest people in the entire world—and certainly in crypto—has been thinking a lot lately about how …
U.S. Department of Justice DOJ wants the book thrown at confessed ICO scammerdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Guillermo Jimenez Three years hard time. That’s the fate of a confessed ICO fraudster, if the U.S. government has its way. Maksim Zaslavskiy, the man behind …
Curry with The Block’s Mike Dudasdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Ben Munster NEW YORK—Mike Dudas keeps offering me a job at his website, The Block, at a rate far higher than what I could possibly dream of at Decrypt. But I keep …
Binance Binance releases details on its next multi-million-dollar IEOdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Guillermo Jimenez After a hiccup last week, suffering the sixth-largest hack of a cryptocurrency exchange in history, Binance has reopened its doors, and it’s coming …
Business How Ripple is building out the XRP ecosystem through Xpringdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Tim Copeland XRP is a cryptocurrency primarily known for its use in cross-border payments, an initiative largely led by Ripple. Yet, a larger ecosystem is now …
Coinbase Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong: Crypto will go from niche to mainstreamdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Tim Copeland Crypto needs to start small before it goes big, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said yesterday at the Consensus conference in New York. In particular, …
Business Justin Sun interview: Teslas, Twitter bots and his man crush on Vitalik Buterindecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Tim Copeland NEW YORK—Early yesterday morning, Tron’s head of communications, Cliff Edwards, hustled into the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. He was profusely …
Gab Gab is serious about forking Keybase, replacing Stellar with Bitcoindecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Guillermo Jimenez Gab’s plans to fork over Silicon Valley projects did not end with just Brave. The “free speech social media network” is evolving, and Gab is taking a …
Business ShapeShift is having a butterfly momentdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Adriana Hamacher QuadrigaCX, Bitfinex, Binance… the list of exchanges that have seen customer funds stolen is increasing on a weekly basis. But there’s one …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCoinbase XRP price soars after Coinbase opens up trading in New Yorkdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Rebecca Campbell Fans of Ripple and XRP are seemingly thrilled by the news that Coinbase has finally opened up trading for the altcoin in New York. Following a tweet …
Business Crypto traders get access to FDIC-insured accounts through Safra Bankdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Guillermo Jimenez The risky world of cryptocurrency trading may soon be getting appreciably less risky—at least when cash is involved. SFOX, a San Francisco-based …
HTC HTC Exodus One now offers crypto trading using Kyber Networkdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Tim Copeland HTC continues to make its push to become the go-to maker of blockchain phones. The Tawainese smartphone maker announced today that it has integrated …
Bitcoin Crypto Mom Hester Peirce: The time is still right for a Bitcoin ETFdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Tim Copeland The SEC has denied every Bitcoin ETF application that it has yet laid its eyes on, but there’s one voice within the Commission that hasn’t given up …
Kevin Hart Comedian Kevin Hart faces multi-million dollar ICO lawsuitdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Guillermo Jimenez An ICO investor walks into a courtroom—stop us if you’ve heard this one. Last November, a group of investors in Flik—a blockchain-based funding and …
