I Tried to Get People to Give Away Bitcoin – And They Did

news Binance Jersey’s Twitter account was hacked by an anonymous twitter user called @LightningNetwo9. According to tweets posted on Binance Jersey by the hacker, the hacker is a security researcher claiming to operate with altruistic motivations. The hacking was confirmed via Binance Jersey’s telegram account. The hacker claims he could have used the successful hack…

news Online retailer Overstock.com announced it will pay shareholder dividends in a digital security listed on its affiliate company tZero’s trading platform. The move, approved by the company’s board of directors, will see that one digital voting series A-1 preferred stock (series A-1) will represent 10 shares of common stock, or 10 shares of voting…

Aug 14, 2020 at 15:15 UTCINX has named a low-profile Israeli outfit to underwrite its reported $117 million initial public offering (IPO) later this year. In an amended filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week, the Gibraltar-based crypto and security token exchange confirmed it had chosen A-Labs Finance and Advisory to underwrite…

May 28, 2020 at 17:18 UTCGoldman Sachs office, Jersey City, N.J. (Credit: Akshay Sadarangani/Unsplash)What Goldman Gets Wrong About Bitcoin (From Someone Who Used to Work There)Jill Carlson, a CoinDesk columnist, is co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit research organization working to guarantee the right to a free and open financial system. She is…

Digital asset investment products have witnessed outflows for the fifth consecutive week as bitcoin (BTC), the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has traded down in May.Outflows last week came to $32 million, pushing the total during the streak to $232 million, according to a report from CoinShares. Investors withdrew $33 million from bitcoin products…

news Developers behind the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Beam have revealed that the “critical” bug discovered and subsequently fixed in their wallet software last week could have put user funds directly at risk. As stated in a Medium post published today, the vulnerability would have allowed an attacker to create “modified transactions” and subsequently send funds directly…

Wandering through the damp, grey streets of Brooklyn this past Tuesday, I encountered a paper sign, haphazardly taped to a street pole. “Missing Cat,” it read. But there was something off about the image of the cat itself – a sort of Halloween-themed caricature, rendered whimsically in midnight black, with a stitched-up mouth and a…

Featured SpeakerBowTiedBullPresidentBowTied JungleThe pseudonymous investor BowtiedBull explores the BowtiedJungle, where citizens swap advice on investing, job-seeking, ...Krisztian Sandor is a reporter on the U.S. markets team focusing on stablecoins and institutional investment. He holds BTC and ETH.Featured SpeakerBowTiedBullPresidentBowTied JungleThe pseudonymous investor BowtiedBull explores the BowtiedJungle, where citizens swap advice on investing, job-seeking, ...Blockchain-based crypto lending…

Crypto wallet Beam, which is backed by notable digital asset investors, such as venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and the investment arm of Coinbase (COIN), went live on Thursday.Beam was developed by fintech firm Eco, the developer of a protocol of the same name. The wallet will support the protocol's native token ECO and…