Earlier this month, William Shatner the actor, spokesman, and crypto entrepreneur, announced his new partnership with Mattereum, a blockchain Ethereum-based system, to develop an authentication and digital ownership transfer system for collectibles utilizing a “digital Read more…
2020 will see a new cryptocurrency: “GlobalCoin”. Facebook will launch the crypotcurrency-based payment system in a “dozen countries” by the beginning of 2020, though trials will start before the end of this year. The social Read more…
Mozilla officially announced their upgraded Firefox browser recently. The upgrades known as Firefox Nightly 68 and Beta 67 now automatically block crypto mining malware and fingerprinting hack attacks. The new features were developed in collaboration Read more…
Blockchain-based systems may be the key to ensuring responsible sourcing for minerals. The Dodd-Frank Act, passed in 2017, requires any US firm to ensure that mineral resources they obtained were not for the enrichment of Read more…
Cryptocurrency theft is on the rise with more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency taken in 2018 alone, and the trend shows no signs of slowing down. More than 50% of cryptocurrency theft occurs in the Read more…
The collapse of Quadriga Fintech Solutions Corp and documentation of more than $1.7 billion worth of cryptocurrency stolen in 2018 have both been solid blows to the financial technology reputation. As of late February, cryptocurrency Read more…
Jesse Lund, VP of IBM’s Blockchain and digital currencies, said that he expects Bitcoin’s (BTC) price to eventually hit $1 million during an interview Wednesday with Finder.com. Lund explained that he “likes that number,” given Read more…
The Switzerland-based non-profit organization Distributed Technology Research Foundation (DTR) Foundation is behind a new cryptocurrency development effort, called Unit-e, that has seven major universities collaborating on a solution for blockchain’s scalability and performance problems in Read more…
Bitcoin and blockchain were the topics of discussion at Davos Economic Forum this week. Top investors speculated that Bitcoin could be facing a significant plummet in price this year, even more after the dramatic fall Read more…
Numerous studies have found that most current malware attacks are designed for cryptojacking. In fact, new coin miner malware jumped a mind-boggling 1189% in the first three months of this year according to Raj Samani, Read more…