Microsoft Looks to Trusted Computing for Blockchain Security Boost

Cryptocurrency safekeeping firms BitGo and Copper are combining their respective in-custody settlement networks, a way of accessing trading on a growing list of major exchanges without users’ assets leaving the secure confines of cold storage.The joining up of qualified custodian BitGo’s Go Network with Copper’s popular ClearLoop system will give users access to exchanges such

Hong Kong-based crypto exchange Bitfinex has hit back against claims it is insolvent and disclosed wallet addresses that hold over $1.5 billion in crypto assets. The company, which shares management with Tether, the venture behind the U.S dollar-pegged crypto USDT, stated in a blog post on Sunday that it is not insolvent, and "a constant…

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Bitcoin fell to as low as $50,700 late Wednesday, while ether dropped just under $2890 before reversing losses early Thursday.Some traders said the sell-offs were expected and not indicative of a broader market trend, citing price-action analysis.The crypto market hit multi-month highs earlier this week, declining a bit, before recovering early Thursday, as traders took

news A subsidiary of Swiss multinational investment bank Credit Suisse has completed a blockchain trial for fund transactions. Fundsquare, the fund distribution arm of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the project’s technical partner, announced the news on its blog Thursday, saying Credit Suisse Asset Management and Portugal-based bank Banco Best have “successfully processed live end-to-end fund…

Bitcoin and major tokens gave back all weekly gains as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission delayed key ETF decisions that were expected on Friday, dampening traders’ hopes of a long-term recovery.Bitcoin (BTC) slid under $26,000 to retrace all gains made earlier this week. In the past 24 hours, majors dogecoin (DOGE) and solana (SOL)

Silicon Valley was the second-highest ranked U.S. hub in CoinDesk's Crypto Hubs 2023. Several of the eight criteria were measured on a national basis, so all the U.S. hubs were hampered by a middling crypto regulatory score, a drivers criteria, which at 35% was the most heavily weighted overall. This poor performance was partially offset…

Security researchers have discovered a new botnet that, rather than posing a threat, seems to be seeking out and destroying a type of crypto-mining malware. Called Fbot, the botnet is a variant of one called Satori, which is in turn based on Mirai – a program normally used for DDoS attacks. Unusually, the DDoS module seems…

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