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One of crypto's most feared attacks may have an elegant solution. At least, that's according to the team behind cryptocurrency project Horizen – formally zencash – which lost more than $500,000 in such an attack, called a 51 percent attack, earlier this year. This attack happens when one single malicious miner controls more than 51 percent of the…

news Users of Android phones and desktop computers have had the option to use Opera’s blockchain-friendly browser for months now, but iPhone owners have been left out of the fun. That’s now changed with the launch of the latest version of Opera Touch for iOS. As per a blog post from the firm, the new…

While our attention was focused on exchange-traded funds earlier this month, federal regulators in the U.S. announced charges or sentences for various crypto parties.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions.Quiet monthThe narrativeRemember when it felt like an initial

One of the founders of the cypherpunk movement has just revealed new technology that he believes will revolutionize cryptocurrency from this moment on. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, the grey-haired, digital money pioneer David Chaum is launching a new cryptocurrency Elixxir via his startup. And his goals are bold. By using cryptographic techniques he invented decades…

Sep 3, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Sep 3, 2020 at 13:41 UTCNew Crypto Derivatives Let You Bet on (or Against) Tether’s SolvencyAfter years of debating whether tether (USDT) is fully backed 1-for-1 with U.S. dollars, the stablecoin’s critics and defenders alike can now put their money where their mouths are. Opium, a derivatives exchange, has…

markets View Bitcoin’s 50- and 200-day moving averages (MAs)look set to produce a death cross in the next week or two. Historical data shows the cryptocurrency could bottom out if the cross is confirmed. BTC may drop to support near $7,430 before then. A break above $8,820 is needed to invalidate the bearish lower-highs set…

news “We always needs to ask, ‘Who are we building for?'” Kicking off the annual ethereum hackathon ETHDenver, Aave CEO Stani Kulechov shared an opening address on on “leaping decentralized finance [into the] mainstream.” Aave is a Swiss-based blockchain technology company that officially launched in September of last year. Acting as the parent company to ETHLend…

Tuesday marks the end of an era. Binance's Changpeng Zhao stepped down and pleaded guilty to violating U.S. anti-money laundering requirements, despite the fact that Binance was never a U.S. exchange. With that, the myth of “borderless” crypto companies is truly over.To be sure, this is not the first time that U.S. law enforcement nailed

Jan 23, 2020 at 14:00 UTCImage via CoinDesk ArchiveDigital asset storage provider Ledger is partnering with FLETA, a South Korea-based blockchain platform for decentralized applications (dapps) to provide custodian services compliant with local laws.The French startup has been trying to extend the reach of its institutional-level services with Ledger Vault, building on the success of…