One Week On from the Etherdelta Hack, Funds Are Still Being Stolen

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One of the major benefits of decentralized exchanges is that they can’t be hacked – or so the theory went. As Etherdelta’s users found out last week, however, that’s not quite true. After accessing the site’s DNS records and replacing the domain with a sophisticated fake, attackers were able to hoover up hundreds of thousands … Read more

Major Exchanges Don’t Want Forked Coins but Smaller Platforms Can’t Get Enough of Them

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With less bitcoin holders bothering to claim forked coins, the public’s appetite for chain splits is clearly diminishing. Developers, though, seem determined to keep pushing out fresh forks to a diminishing band of recipients. One of the toughest challenges that forkers face is finding wallets and exchanges willing to distribute the newly birthed coins. Large … Read more

Opera Browser to Include Built-In Anti-Bitcoin Mining Feature

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Cryptocurrency mining malware has recently became such a hot issue in the cyber security world that popular internet browser Opera is now starting to offer protection against it right out of the box.  Also read: New Cryptocurrency Mining Bot Is Infesting Facebook Messenger The developers of the Opera browser have announced that the next version of … Read more

Markets Update: Deflated Digital Asset Prices Bounce Back

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The price of bitcoin (BTC) has rebounded significantly since our last markets update. BTC markets reached a high of $16,100 across many global exchanges around 11:00 am EDT on December 26. The price spike is a big jump from yesterday’s weighted global averages of $13,800-14,000 per BTC on Christmas day. Also read: Bundesbank Board Member: … Read more

CryptoPing Plans to Launch a Social Trading Platform and a Deep Learning Powered Bot in 2018

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Successful Completion of the 2017 Roadmap After 10 months of existence, CryptoPing is now frequently used by more than 80,000 traders worldwide who receive signals on crypto assets via a Telegram bot. The bot has processed over 320,000,000 trading events and generated more than 21,000 signals about crypto assets that were getting unusual amount of … Read more