Worldcoin’s biometric gamble is a privacy time bomb

Ransomware hackers initially demanded $10 million to restore access to travel firm CWT’s computers and delete any stolen data. 504 Total views 15 Total shares U.S.-based corporate travel firm CWT paid $4.5 million in a Bitcoin ransom to hackers who stole sensitive files from the company.According to a July 31 report from Reuters, representatives from…

Hodl Law sued the SEC in 2022, claiming it could face the regulator’s ire for using Ethereum and wanted a court to force it to decide if ETH is a security.

On April 5, Italy’s “blood donation day,” the Italian Red Cross constructed an advanced medical post using funds generated through a crypto fundraiser.The Italian Red Cross has raised nearly $32,000 through cryptocurrency donations in less than one month. Roughly $22,000 has been used to finance the construction of the initiative’s first advanced medical post in…

Blur founder Pacman is hopeful that the major NFT trading applications will soon find a middle ground and cooperate on creator royalties. 1063 Total views 5 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTIn this episode of Hashing It Out, Pacman, the founder and core contributor of the nonfungible token…

The number of ransomware attacks globally has dropped significantly since the coronavirus crisis intensified in March, according to a new report from Chainalysis.The blockchain analytics firm said the drop was particularly significant given there were growing concerns over the impact of ransomware attacks against hospitals and other healthcare organizations during the crisis.Hospitals are a favoured…

Last year, Bitwise Asset Management reported to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission that 95% of trading volume in Bitcoin (BTC) was fake. Bitwise found that, according to data published by CoinMarketCap — a widely cited tracker of crypto statistics — Bitcoin’s approximate average daily volume in April 2019 was $10 billion. In comparison,…

AWS is launching Bedrock, an AI service that will allow users to build out generative models from AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Stability AI, and Amazon. Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTGenerative AI models such as ChatGPT have taken the technology world by storm as they threaten to permeate the mainstream. With…

Called "Avalanche Vista," the initiative will consider investing in any asset that can be tokenized. 112 Total views 1 Total shares The Avalanche Foundation announced the launch of “Avalanche Vista,” a $50 million initiative to spur tokenization on the Avalanche blockchain, on July 25.Today, the Avalanche Foundation introduces Avalanche Vista, a $50M initiative to pioneer…

Bitcoin (BTC) is almost unrecognizable as it starts the first working week of 2021, retaining $30,000 support and hitting astronomical new highs.Hard to believe for hodlers, price action continues to wow as Monday gets underway, and attention is turning to what might be next. Cointelegraph takes a look at five factors that investors might wish…