Academic paper suggests governments should attack public blockchains

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has postponed its decision on the listing and trading of a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) until September 30, according to an official document released by the SEC August 7. ETFs are securities that track a basket of assets proportionately represented in the fund’s shares. They are seen by…

A survey showed that 26% of institutional investors and wealth managers support Bitcoin’s use case as a reserve asset. 

Since the start of the week Ether (ETH) has gained more than 17% and the gains appear to be connected to increasing stablecoin use and the rise of DeFi applications. As reported by Cointelegraph, Ethereum network usage surpassed Bitcoin’s, doubling the volume settled over the entirety of 2019.Another possibly bullish factor in the background is the…

Bitcoin can scale as an adopted store of value using second-layer solutions, but not on-chain with its current technology says Abra’s CEO. 588 Total views 16 Total shares Bill Barhydt, CEO and founder of the Abra digital finance wallet and exchange app, said he sees Bitcoin’s (BTC) blockchain struggling when it comes to on-chain mass…

Proceeds were spent on luxury cars, jewellery and real estate, rather than cryptocurrency mining and trading, shock. The operators of a global cryptocurrency-based Ponzi scheme have been charged with fraud and money laundering following a United States Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) probe.According to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice, four of the five…

Energy network company E.ON has filed a patent application for a blockchain-based data collector with the European Patent Office. E.ON announced the patent filing on the company’s website on July 19.As per the announcement, the device in question makes use of sensors to collect user data, which the user can then choose to sell as data…

Exodus CEO JP Richardson says the firm’s security team reviews all engineers’ code to prevent malicious actions.

Leading Chinese DeFi protocol has lost 99.95% of locked funds in a nearly $25 million hack. 1345 Total views 52 Total shares Chinese decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol dForce has been exploited in a $24.95 million hack that has resulted in its Lendf.Me lending platform going offline.According to DeFi data aggregator DeFi Pulse, the total…