Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Getting Its Own Hacker Camp

Miners earned over $1.1 billion in January. Monthly bitcoin miner revenue since January 2016Feb 2, 2021 at 7:31 p.m. UTCBitcoin Miners Saw Revenue Rise 62% in January From DecemberBitcoin miners generated an estimated $1.1 billion in revenue in January, up 62% from December, according to on-chain data from Coin Metrics analyzed by CoinDesk.The surge in…

Nov 17, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 17, 2020 at 2:01 p.m. UTCBalaji Srinivasan, HashKey Back $2M Round in Twitter Privacy Tool Mask NetworkMask Network, the protocol that allows users to send encrypted messages, cryptocurrencies and even dapps over Twitter and Facebook, announced a $2 million funding round Tuesday co-led by HashKey and Hash…

This week CoinDesk recounted the saga of Bitcoin developer's Luke Dashjr's proposal to amend key open-source software in a way that would have severely curtailed the use of data-oriented applications like Ordinals inscriptions – sometimes referred to as "NFTs on Bitcoin."Several days ago, as detailed in the piece, Ava Chow, a Blockstream developer who serves

A draft proposal by the EP's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs suggests creating new regulations for public initial coin offerings (ICOs).

news Xpring, Ripple’s grant network for developers launched last May, is stepping into the $140 billion global gaming industry. The project has partnered with the gaming blockchain startup Forte to create a $100 million fund to support game developers, the companies announced on Tuesday. According to a report in the Verge, all of the money…

A Montenegro high court has annulled a decision by a lower court to release Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon on bail as he faces charges of attempting to travel with falsified documents, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.The Basic Court of the country's capital Podgorica had accepted a previous proposal made by Kwon's lawyers in early May…

While bitcoin remains shy of its November 2021 all-time high in U.S. dollar terms, it has already breached record highs in local currencies in many markets around the globe.The U.S. dollar index (DXY) is ahead 10.7% since November 2021, meaning many currencies across the world have lost value. Among the countries where bitcoin has hit

Scammers spun up at least 7,905 blockchain wallets in May to collect crypto they steal from ordinary users, according to a blockchain security company Forta Network.Forta, which has recently launched its own token, operates a network of bots that detect various kinds of scams on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Optimism, Avalanche, Arbitrum and Fantom…

May 25, 2020 at 11:54 UTCUpdated May 25, 2020 at 12:31 UTCWith bitcoin’s price losing altitude again, small investors appear to be seeking exposure to the top cryptocurrency by market value. Prices fell by 9.8% last week to register bitcoin’s biggest weekly decline since the second week of March, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index. A…