Swiss-based The Pillar Project will hold its second annual “unconference” in Lithuania between July 15th and 22nd, 2018. The non-profit is developing an advanced cryptocurrency and token wallet and anticipate at least 500 attendees to its open event focusing on e-commerce tools and infrastructure for the Pillar Wallet platform. The Pillar Project ran a successful… Continue reading Pillar Project’s 2018 “Woodstock of Crypto” Set to Attract Over 500 Blockchain Entrepreneurs and Technologists.
Month: March 2018
‘Fauxpersky’ malware steals and sends passwords to an attacker’s inbox
Researchers say the malware is “highly efficient,” even if it’s not very sophisticated. By Zack Whittaker for Zero Day | March 28, 2018 A newly-discovered keylogger malware has been found infecting computers in the wild. Though the malware is far from advanced, it’s efficient at stealing passwords. Researchers at Cybereason, a Boston,… Continue reading ‘Fauxpersky’ malware steals and sends passwords to an attacker’s inbox
Blockstream Introduces Lightning Applications With The Week of LApps
The last few months have seen an exciting increase in the pace of updates and news from the three main development teams working on the different Bitcoin Lightning Network clients. The recent mainnet beta announcement from Lightning Labs, has been followed for the past few days with an exciting series via the Blockstream blog outlining… Continue reading Blockstream Introduces Lightning Applications With The Week of LApps
Bitify Now Looks Like a Darkweb Marketplace
Stolen giftcards, hacked logins, copyrighted books, email and password lists. It sounds like what would be available on the darkweb in some silk road successor site. But all that is being sold in the open, on the regular internet. Bitify claims to be “the world’s largest Bitcoin Marketplace and Auction site” and touts a strong… Continue reading Bitify Now Looks Like a Darkweb Marketplace
Cboe Letter to SEC Argues Industry Can Support Cryptocurrency ETFs
The president and COO for the Cboe Global Markets has sent a new letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expressing the view that the industry can support the launch of a cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP). The letter, from Chris Concannon, the company’s head, which was in response to a January staff letter… Continue reading Cboe Letter to SEC Argues Industry Can Support Cryptocurrency ETFs
NEM-based Blockchain Platform ProximaX Taps Decentralized Applications Market
A new blockchain platform called ProximaX has been in development by the people behind the NEM blockchain and the Catapult platform since August 2017 to tap into the rapidly growing decentralized application (DApp) market. The ProximaX blockchain-based decentralized platform, spearheaded by Lon Wong, the president of the NEM.io Foundation, promises to be an all-in-one platform… Continue reading NEM-based Blockchain Platform ProximaX Taps Decentralized Applications Market
Circle Hires Naeem Ishaq as Chief Financial Officer
Global peer-to-peer payment and cryptocurrency investment service Circle has hired Naeem Ishaq, a former executive at Boxed and Square, as CFO, Treasurer, and Executive Vice President of Risk. Last month, Circle made headlines when the company acquired the digital asset exchange Poloniex. Up until December 2016, Circle operated a bitcoin exchange and hosted wallet. It… Continue reading Circle Hires Naeem Ishaq as Chief Financial Officer
VirusBay Aims To Make Malware Analysis More Social
March 27th 2018, By Lawrence Abrams For those looking to learn about and share malware samples, a site called VirusBay may be what you are looking for. VirusBay’s goal is to make malware analysis more social by providing a place for researchers to upload samples, request samples, and discuss them with other researchers. … Continue reading VirusBay Aims To Make Malware Analysis More Social
Coinbase to add support for Ethereum based ERC20 tokens
In a recent blog post, San-Francisco based digital currency exchange Coinbase has announced that they intend to begin supporting the ERC20 technical standard in the coming months. In the blog, Coinbase said: “This paves the way for supporting ERC20 assets across Coinbase products in the future, though we aren’t announcing support for any specific assets… Continue reading Coinbase to add support for Ethereum based ERC20 tokens
Art Venture KnownOrigin is Aiming to Disrupt the Art World with Blockchain Technology
Investment in the art industry is expensive for many people; however, the advent of blockchain technology is changing the art world, with one organisation aiming to bring people closer to art. According to figures from the Tefaf art market report, released by the European Fine Art Foundation, it showed that in 2016 global art market… Continue reading Art Venture KnownOrigin is Aiming to Disrupt the Art World with Blockchain Technology