Cyberattacks target French government websites: Report

With no monetary investment required, Pi Network users believe they have nothing to lose — but critics say otherwise.

“We are not planning to acquire Huobi,” said Sam Bankman-Fried, who manages assets at Alameda Research and leads crypto exchange FTX. 215 Total views 3 Total shares Global crypto exchange FTX will not be acquiring a majority stake in Huobi, according to CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF. In a Monday tweet, SBF explicitly denied a Bloomberg report…

As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) continues to provide a welcoming regulatory framework for blockchain-based technologies, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) continue to prosper within the region and are being used by projects in various ways. From concert tickets to research and philanthropy, Cointelegraph went to Dubai and Abu Dhabi to explore how various crypto projects operating within…

Singapore-based investment company Temasek has officially denied involvement in the cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain’s Initial Public Offering (IPO), according to an official statement August 30.Last month, media reported that Temasek was one of the key investors in the Bitmain pre-IPO funding round. The investment firm’s commitments for the pre-IPO allegedly totalled $560 million. In response…

Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb appears to have enjoyed a prosperous 2020, having sold more than $400 million worth of XRP over the last 12 months. Stellar CTO and Ripple architect Jed McCaleb cashed out a whopping $411 million in XRP in 2020, according to an updated report from blockchain analytics account Whale Alert. McCaleb sold 1.2…

Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner at the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, says crypto represents the latest, most significant transformation of the tech industry. 140 Total views 5 Total shares Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z), made a case for crypto and blockchain as the…

A million-dollar question in crypto might be whether tokens can be considered securities in the United States, with some crypto companies staking a lot of money on it. For payment platform Ripple — sued by the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2020 — defense costs have already topped $200 million, Cointelegraph has learned. The SEC…

Since El Salvador adopted Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender in September 2021, there have been a number of quick judgments issued declaring this move a failure, with some pundits going as far as to suggest that Bitcoin is somehow responsible for the economic challenges that existed in El Salvador well before Bitcoin was even created.…

The crypto market has been surging recently and there’s one cryptocurrency — Bitcoin (BTC) — leading the way. After having suffered through volatility for the better part of the last 60-some days, the flagship crypto has showcased a high level of recovery, even breaking past its 200-day moving average earlier this month, suggesting that a…