Europol anticipates rise in AI-driven cybercrime: IOCTA 2024

Terrorist organization ISIS has turned to blockchain technology to anonymously spread videos and propaganda to thousands of people worldwide.A Vice report on Dec. 13th noted that experts who track ISIS’s activities online have found that supporters of the terror group are currently experimenting with blockchain-based messaging app, BCM. On the subject, a BCM spokesperson told…

Adult webcam streaming websites are getting a boost from pandemic lockdowns. 1766 Total views 17 Total shares Live streaming webcam platform Stripchat is among several adult websites experiencing a boom in crypto payments over the past year.The adult social streaming and entertainment platform revealed in a blog that cryptocurrency is rapidly becoming a preferred payment…

Bitget's new fund will receive $100 million as an initial investment to support the next generation of Web3 projects. Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTCrypto derivatives exchange Bitget launched a new fund focused on supporting the next generation of Web3 projects. According to a statement seen by Cointelegraph, $100 million…

FairX, a financial services company involved with banking and digital assets, has shut down its operations as it failed to establish a licensed national bank.According to a FairX Twitter thread on July 19, the company has fallen short of setting up a licensed national bank due to a lack of funding. FairX was trying to…

Cross-chain interoperability is a domain that has piqued the interest of many financial institutions over the years, as it stands to produce a technology that can potentially mitigate a whole host of their recurring operational issues — such as data leakages, loss of customer funds during international transactions and poor accountability — in a totally…

After hitting a wall with banks, a borrower has turned to DeFi to pay off his mortgage. 1219 Total views 11 Total shares A software engineer has taken decentralized finance to a new level of practicality, by paying off his mortgage with Commonwealth Bank of Australia and refinancing the loan through fixed-rate lending protocol Notional…

China is reportedly leading the world in the number of blockchain projects currently underway in the country, Chinese English-language news daily China.org.cn reports on April 2.Citing a report by Blockdata, China.org.cn states that there are 263 blockchain-related projects in China, accounting for 25 percent of the global total.Li Qilei, the CTO at blockchain platform developer…

1. What is SegWit? SegWit — or Segregated Witness — is the name given to a Bitcoin (BTC) protocol upgrade, which was implemented on Aug. 23, 2017. As in any decentralized blockchain, if Bitcoin’s algorithm needs updating, it’s up to the Bitcoin developers and contributors to agree on how and when to make changes together. Completed in…