Microsoft reported that digital currency mining encounters dropped 40 percent from 2018 to 2019, according to a report. The tech company noted in the report that only 50 endpoints for each 100,000 came across a digital currency miner. Ethiopia was the country with the highest...
Balancer Pool suffered a complicated attack that took advantage of a technicality in its system, Coindesk reported. The identity of the attacker is still reportedly not known, and the hacker is said to have hidden his or her footprint effectively. Exchange aggregator 1inch said in a...
CertiK, an auditing firm, wants to bring Internet of Things (IoT) devices onto blockchain through its new partnership with Hdac, CoinDesk reports. Hdac’s blockchain platform will work to combine the tight authentication, seamless mapping and machine-to-machine transactions with a network containing IoT devices. The new...
Telegram consented to a $18.5 million penalty in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) settlement over an unsuccessful token offering, CoinDesk reported. The company will also tell the agency about any intentions for any kind of cryptocurrency issuance in the three years to come....
A florist in Australia named Binancé has purportedly won a domain name disagreement with Binance, the digital currency exchange, Decrypt reported. Binance has been in dispute with the florist as of the middle of April. Lawyers for the firm reportedly contended that the Binance trademark has...
New Zealand police have frozen $90 million they say belongs to alleged bitcoin scammer Alexander Vinnik in what’s being called the country’s largest money seizure ever. Vinnik, who’s currently held in France but wanted in the United States and his native Russia, allegedly laundered billions...
Crypto.com said it has signed on to the Open Payments Coalition with a “commitment to drive open payments globally,” according to an announcement. The site will put PayID into place on its infrastructure as its first effort. Users receive an ID that works throughout “any...
The government of Austria is backing the creation of a pandemic-related mobile application based on the blockchain, CoinDesk reported. Its Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs provided a grant of $67,600 to the QualiSig program that taps into portions of the country’s digital identity...
The U.S. Air Force has granted blockchain firm SIMBA Chain a $1.5 million check to help create a new blockchain for supply logistics in the next two years, according to Coindesk.com. The South Bend, Indiana-based company will now also be partnering with Boeing as it...
