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• EOS user exploits 'dumb' smart contract to make 1B tokens magically appear

  An EOS community member has credited himself with a billion SE7EN tokens by exploiting its poorly made smart contract. Devs ...

  • David Canellis

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new startup wants to give people control over their data again

  Sir Tim Berners-Lee is working on a startup whose mission is to help people control their data - by building the internet ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Amazon Prime Reading brings a half-decent selection of free ebooks to India

  Amazon is rounding out its Prime loyalty program for subscribers in India with the introduction of Prime Reading, which brings ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Coinbase’s new discovery tools make buying cryptocurrency dangerously easy

  Coinbase thinks it can make investing in cryptocurrency even easier, but there are a few things newbies ought to consider ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Blockchain.io wants to reshape your experience with cryptocurrencies

  The world of cryptocurrencies has come a long way since the invention of Bitcoin in 2008. It still has a long way to go. As a new user who wants to become engaged in the industry, you must navigate your way through thousands of coins, dozens of exchanges, a patchwork of regulations, ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Kik-approved messaging app caught storing user passwords in plain text

  Messaging app Blastchat, recently selected for Kik's $3 million cryptocurrency developer program, was caught storing sensitive ...

  • David Canellis

• We’re launching Hard Fork Decentralized, our first blockchain event

  We're taking over London in December! Come join us in debating the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency with a slew of ...

  • Patrick de Laive

• Cryptocurrency bulls push Bitcoin price beyond $26,000 (in Iran)

  The price of Bitcoin in Iran has jumped to over $26,000 overnight, after its central government legalized cryptocurrency ...

  • David Canellis

• Xiaomi is launching more phones than ever and it's hard to keep up

  Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi launch three smartphones under Redmi 6 series today in India. This is its ninth model launch ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• The Australian Securities Exchange is delaying its blockchain plans until 2021

  The ASX has delayed the launch of its distributed ledger system, just a few weeks after reassuring investors that blockchain ...

  • David Canellis

• Atlassian launches Jira Ops to fix the fragmented incident response world

  Good news for devops and sysadmin teams.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Google releases tools for probing Ethereum's blockchain

  Google has added Ethereum support to its BigQuery database tool, giving us a new method of analyzing data stored on its blockchain. ...

  • David Canellis