Bitcoin Mining Firm Hut 8 Appoints Jaime Leverton as CEO

Oct 27, 2020 at 20:13 UTCUpdated Oct 27, 2020 at 20:14 UTC‘Convincing’ Phishing Attack Targets Ledger Hardware Wallet UsersCustomers of Ledger, the hardware cryptocurrency wallet, are being targeted by a phishing attack posing as an email from Ledger support. On Sunday a Reddit user posted in the r/ethfinance subreddit, alerting the group to the existence of…

Sam Bankman-Fried once infamously offered to buy all the Solana tokens he could for $3 each. On Friday, while testifying at his criminal trial, he revealed he'd actually started buying SOL much earlier in its history, at 20 cents apiece.Regarding how he paid for the investments, he said during questioning from his lawyer: "I believed

Taiko has raised $15 million in a series A fundraising, bringing its lifetime outside investment total to $37 million.Project claims to be an "Ethereum-equivalent ZK rollup" with "based sequencing" – both tipped as technological breakthroughs – but Taiko faces a crowded field of competitors among Ethereum layer-2 networks.Taiko, a layer-2 scaling solution provider for the

Bitcoin's (BTC) attempt at a sizable rally was snuffed out Tuesday, but the crypto managed to hold the $27,000 level and was trading at $27,180 late in the afternoon, up 1.4% over the past 24 hours.The broader CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) was ahead 1% for the day. Notably underperforming was ether (ETH), with a gain

Aug 14, 2020 at 19:00 UTC(Muhammad Faiz Zulkeflee/Unsplash)Fortnite vs. Apple and Google Is the Internet’s First ‘World War’What’s truly at stake is the power to shape and profit from the future of digital experiences. For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox,…

news Cryptopia, the cryptocurrency exchange hit by a major hack in mid-January, has gone into liquidation and suspended trading operations. The news was announced Wednesday by Cryptopia’s assigned liquidator, professional services firm Grant Thornton New Zealand. Cryptopia confirmed the news on Twitter, as well as on its website. Possibly signaling changes afoot, Cryptopia website went under…

Meanwhile, BoE Governor Andrew Bailey said crypto qua crypto fails as currency qua currency, though dissidents like Alexey Navalny might disagree.Bank of England Chief Andrew Bailey(Tolga Akmen/WPA Pool/Getty Images)Jan 26, 2021 at 5:22 p.m. UTCBlockchain Bites: Universities Are Gaining Bitcoin Exposure as Institutional ETH Appetite GrowsThree storiesOverstock is looking to exit its blockchain-related investments, CoinDesk’s…

Oct 28, 2020 at 13:46 UTCUpdated Oct 28, 2020 at 14:20 UTCMarc Andreessen, a16z co-founder(JD Lasica/Flickr)Former BitLicense Chief to Manage Andreessen Horowitz’s Cryptocurrency EffortsThe one-time New York State finance regulator who shepherded the state’s BitLicense through its early days will join tech ventures fund Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) to focus on cryptocurrency companies.An a16z blog post…

U.K. Finance alongside 11 of its members completed the experimental phase of a tokenization and CBDC platform. The program identified improvements in economic value and enhanced functionality. 02:58 Stablecoins Explained: 3 Things You Need to Know 06:22 Philippines Taps Blockchain 04:56 BlackRock CEO Predicts Tokenization Is the Future of Markets 00:48 Tokenization on Public Blockchains