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Is Grayscale ‘Trying’ To Corner The Bitcoin Market?

John Wanguba Jan 1, 2021

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust has been acquiring more bitcoins (BTC) at any given chance that they get. These massive acquisitions have had some investors suggest that Grayscale is acquiring all these coins aiming to corner and monopolize the…

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XRP Markets Startled After SEC Filed $1.3B Lawsuit Against Ripple

John Wanguba Dec 24, 2020

XRP markets have imploded violently. On December 22, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against Ripple Labs. The Commission took legal action against the XRP creator, its co-founder Christian Larsen, as well as…

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Former Uber security chief arrested for covering up 2016 hack

E-Crypto News Staff Aug 20, 2020

In addition to obstruction of justice, prosecutors charged Sullivan with failing to share knowledge of a felony. In total, he faces up to eight years in prison if convicted of both charges. "We expect good corporate citizenship," said…

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Have I Been Pwned's code base will be open sourced

E-Crypto News Staff Aug 7, 2020

Hunt noted there were a few reasons for this, including the prevalence of open source projects and the fact Have I Been Pwned has always been “open in spirit.” On a practical level, it’ll enable others to fix bugs and implement ideas that…

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Ripple UBRI program looks to improve anonymity

E-Crypto News Staff Jul 22, 2020

Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative is focusing on how to improve privacy in the Ripple network. Stefanie Roos, Assistant Professor at the Delft University of Technology, is directing the institution’s efforts to create…

Bitcoin News

Bitcoin Security 101: How to Create a 2 of 2 Multi-Signature BCH Wallet

E-Crypto News Staff Jul 20, 2020

In the world of cryptocurrencies, there’s a lot of discussions and lessons when it comes to digital asset security and one of them is multisig wallets. The term multisig stands for multi-signature and the following post will teach…

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Pentagon plans to trace Bitcoin transactions

E-Crypto News Staff Jul 20, 2020

The Pentagon researches possible tools to trace Bitcoin transactions in an effort to detect criminal activities. Experts at the Pentagon are considering hiring a crypto analytical service to efficiently detect cryptocurrency transactions…

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Seven Hong Kong VPN providers accused of exposing private user data

E-Crypto News Staff Jul 19, 2020

At least some of the information went offline, although it was visible in IoT search engine Shodan.io for 18 days. One of the providers, UFO VPN, claimed that it couldn’t lock down its data quickly due to pandemic-related staff changes. It…

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Zoom fixed a vanity URL issue that could have led to phishing attacks

E-Crypto News Staff Jul 16, 2020

Zoom says it has fixed a security issue that would have let hackers manipulate organizations’ custom URLs for the service and send legitimate-seeming meeting invitations. If a victim accepted the invitation and attended the meeting, the…

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FaceApp is cool again, and adamant it's not a privacy minefield

E-Crypto News Staff Jul 3, 2020

FaceApp’s next frontier is bringing its image-editing magic to video, ideally to create live filters on top of videos. A limited version of this feature has already soft-launched on the iOS app, letting you try the old age and child-like…

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