UK Government Pilots Blockchain in Bid to Secure Digital Evidence

May 19, 2020 at 11:13 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/Tutti FruttiBitcoin’s Impending Golden Cross May Bolster Bulls: AnalystsA widely tracked bitcoin price indicator is about to turn bullish – potentially accelerating the recent uptrend of the top cryptocurrency by market value.The 50-day moving average (MA) of bitcoin’s price looks set to cross above the 200-day MA within two…

The former president of the United States is launching a crypto yield product, even as he appeals to the crypto industry in his current bid for office. Donald Trump will be the "chief crypto advocate" for World Liberty Financial, a venture that has offered scant hints so far about what it will actually do. You’re

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A poster on Breach Forums is advertising access to Binance’s law enforcement request panel for $10,000 in crypto.Access to this panel seems to be from compromised email accounts belonging to law enforcement officials, a common vulnerability in these systems.A bad actor is selling access to Binance’s law enforcement request panel, which provides lawful access to

Backpack’s founders, Armani Ferrante and Tristan Yver, left FTX/Alameda before the firms collapsed.The fresh capital injection will cover the compliance and licensing costs as Backpack looks to expand into more jurisdictions.Longtime Solana contributor Armani Ferrante’s crypto wallet and exchange company Backpack has raised $17 million in a funding round led by Placeholder VC, according to

news Months after it filed an application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Beijing-based cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain is undergoing a series of business changes that extend even to its China offices, the company confirmed Tuesday. “There has been some adjustment to our staff this year as we continue to build a…

Polygon Labs, the Ethereum scaling platform, has released an open database that shows positive use cases of blockchain on any application from across the world, it announced on Thursday.Called "The Value Prop," the database hosts as many as 39 use cases and over 300 applications, with numbers expected to increase. Polygon Labs conceived the project…

NEWS Traders have reportedly incurred losses after Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx settled bitcoin cash futures contracts almost without warning ahead of last week’s hard fork. According to a Bloomberg report Monday, the decision by OKEx resulted in significant losses for some investors, including Qiao Changhe, founder of a firm called Consensus Technologies, who said…

The idea of a decentralized internet isn’t new. Projects like Hyphanet and Tor were early attempts to create decentralized networks. More recently, blockchain-based initiatives such as IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) and Filecoin have emerged. However, these efforts have faced significant challenges. The primary hurdle has been the need for widespread physical infrastructure - servers, routers