Bitcoin

So a lot of noise has been made around the Lightning vulnerability recently disclosed by Antoine Riard. Many people are claiming the sky is falling, that Lightning is fundamentally broken, and nothing…

An Arbitrum-based Friend.tech clone has decided to slam the brakes ahead of its promised airdrop due to unsustainable operational costs, leaving users befuddled while noting the team’s healthy…

U.S. authorities are ramping up measures against virtual currency mixers in the country’s ongoing fight against using crypto to fund terror groups and cybercrime. On Oct. 19, the U.S. Department of…

Infamous hacker Denis Tokarenko, better known as Denis Katana, helped an ex-Soviet organized crime ring use Bitcoin to launder vast amounts of money, a judge in Spain claimed last week. El Español…

Cryptocurrency exchange and derivatives platform Bitget has launched a new wallet service using multi-party computation (MPC) to improve security and key management for users. Following the launch of…

A crypto wallet is a digital purse that keeps your money - cryptocurrency, in this case - safe. But unlike conventional cash storage, it doesn’t physically store the funds. Instead, it stores public…

Xumm, a leading self-custodial wallet for the XRP Ledger (XRPL), has issued a critical warning for Samsung users, specifically those using Samsung Galaxy S21 devices. Xumm issued the announcement…

Recently, the team behind TrueUSD was forced to disclaim TEURO — a token deployed at the same address — suggesting that private keys historically associated with its TUSD token have been compromised.…

James Wan, a US-based medical doctor, has pleaded guilty in a murder-for-hire case where he used Bitcoin to pay a hitman to murder his girlfriend. According to the U.S. Attorney, the plot was…

An entity has moved 4,800 BTC ($144M) to a coin mixer from a wallet tied to defunct darknet marketplace Abraxas, which closed in 2015, according to blockchain analyst ZachXBT. Abraxas shut suddenly…