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A German airline just flew 3 execs holding blockchain tickets
A German airline has claimed to be the first to allow passengers holding blockchain-based tickets to board a flight, Reuters ...
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Hard Fork’s crypto-themed Xmas gift guide — for the HODLers in your life
Christmas is just around the corner and that means presents, not just for you, but for your friends, family, and that unlucky ...
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Switzerland gets another 'Bitcoin bank' that holds cryptocurrency for customers
A Swiss bank set up to handle both traditional financial products and new digital currencies has been given the go-ahead ...
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Blockchain devs looking for work are spoiled for choice right now
Despite regulatory concerns, businesses are still pushing forward and hiring for blockchain and cryptocurrency positions. ...
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TRX Q3 2019: Justin Sun's canceled Warren Buffett lunch did its price no favors
Let's take a look back at how budding blockchain TRON (TRX) performed last quarter amongst constant bad press and a struggling ...
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Oxfam used Ethereum for insurance claims, but Sri Lankan farmers prefer cash
Oxfam Sri Lanka's recent Ethereum pilot discovered that local farmers simply don't have the required equipment to use blockchain ...
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Canadian cryptocurrency exchange goes dark taking over $12M in user funds with it
Financial regulators in Canada are taking action against a cryptocurrency exchange that has gone dark owing customers more ...
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Ethereum had a less than stellar Q3, intense 6 months ahead as ETH 2.0 looms — here's what happened
Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum had a great second quarter of this year, but the same cannot be said of Q3. Let's take a look ...
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New Ethereum token is backed by gold reserves guaranteed by Australian government
This is apparently the first digital gold token deployed on a public blockchain that's guaranteed by government reserves. ...
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Pablo Escobar's brother wins $3M website lawsuit, vows to take down Elon Musk and Apple
Escobar Inc — the company of Pablo Escobar's brother — has won a $3 million lawsuit to secure PabloEscobar.com. Now it's ...
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French tobacconists to start selling shady Bitcoin coupons — again
French tobacconists are getting another chance to selling Bitcoin coupons after the scheme had to be suspended earlier this ...
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Ethereum Foundation donates $18K to UNICEF's new cryptocurrency fund
Further to its previous blockchain exploits, the United Nations Children's Fund, more commonly known as UNICEF, is now taking ...
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Report: Blockchain app transaction volume down nearly 40%
According to Dapp.com, blockchain app usage is way down quarter-on-quarter, with gambling cryptocurrency still the primary ...
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ConsenSys acquires Infura, the centralizing tech powering Ethereum dapps
Ethereum-focused software firm ConsenSys has fully acquired Infura, the company that’s previously been described as the ...
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MakerDAO bug could've let hackers steal Ethereum powering its DAI stablecoin
MakerDAO just paid $50,000 to a researcher who reported a bug that could've led to the theft of millions of dollars and the ...
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IKEA just allowed an invoice to be paid via the Ethereum blockchain
IKEA Iceland accepted payment in digital fiat from Nordic Store, and the invoice was settled using smart contracts programmed ...
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Block.one illegally sold securities to build the EOS cloud computing service, SEC finds
Securities law has finally caught up with Block.one, with the SEC finally recognizing the year-long ICO for EOS tokens to ...
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UK police just sold criminally-seized Bitcoin for above market rates
UK police actually sold their criminally-seized Bitcoin for above market rates, despite the auctions having no minimum bids. ...
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Dollar-pegged stablecoin Tether is now the world's 4th biggest cryptocurrency
Controversial USD-backed stablecoin Tether is now the world's fourth biggest cryptocurrency, only surpassed by Bitcoin, Ethereum, ...
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More than 60% of Ethereum nodes run in the cloud, mostly on Amazon Web Services
The Big Bad Bezos could hypothetically hurt the Ethereum network if he wanted to, as nearly 25% of all nodes are hosted by ...
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Ripple Labs wants the US to forget it's being sued for selling Ripple (XRP) illegally
Ripple Labs has filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit that claims it's been illegally selling its Ripple (XRP) ...
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Ethereum 'ICO architect' arrested over alleged $12M cryptocurrency extortion
Two people, including a former advisor to Ethereum, have been arrested for their alleged role in a multi-million dollar cryptocurrency ...
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This CoinMarketCap parody site tracks Bitcoin's market cap, plus 99 shitcoins
The cryptocurrency market is a confusing place at the best of times. All that complicated technology and all those names ...
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Meet the brave devs trying to take Dogecoin beyond the meme
Hard Fork spoke with devs Ross Nicoll and Michi Lumin about what it takes to take Dogecoin beyond its meme and build it into ...
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Ethereum market faces bearish 'death cross' pattern, while Bitcoin retains momentum
Ethereum has only faced the dreaded 'death cross' three times before in its history, but each time has spelled bad news for ...
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US government knows you’re buying opioids with Bitcoin — and it doesn’t like it
The US government has released a series of advisory notes, one of which specifically looks at the role played by cryptocurrencies ...
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Dark web dealer made to forfeit millions in cryptocurrency gets 70 months in the slammer
A drug dealer ordered to forfeit millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for distributing ...
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Vitalik Buterin: Using Ethereum is expensive, and its blockchain is 'almost full'
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has reiterated warnings that his blockchain has significant scalability problems, and ...
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A beginner’s guide to cryptocurrency feuds for curious Bitcoin newbies
Feuding happens in almost every industry and thanks to social media, normies like me can sit back and watch the juicy fights ...
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Tech journalist breaks first rule of holding cryptocurrency, loses $30,000
It's never funny when someone is robbed of their cryptocurrency. It's especially bad when the victim seemingly can't get ...
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Ugh finally, Samsung adds support for Bitcoin in Blockchain KeyStore
It looks like Samsung has finally got its house in order after it added support for Bitcoin in its Blockchain KeyStore wallet. ...
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Cryptocurrency scammers have netted $4.26B so far this year, report
Cryptocurrency scammers continued to swindle funds throughout Q2 2019, netting approximately $4.26 billion so far this year. ...
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Moonday Mornings: IBM wants to put your browser history on the blockchain, forever
Welcome to another Moonday Mornings. Let's waste no time and take a look at the weekend's cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines ...
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This blockchain-themed maths puzzle can earn you a share of $100,000
Amazon Web Services has teamed up with some blockchain startups to help outsource solutions to some really important problems. ...
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SpankChain launches SpankPay so users can pay for porn with Bitcoin
Adult content platform SpankChain has launched SpankPay, a cryptocurrency payments platform.
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Bitcoiners are predicting the future of blockchain with #TheYearIs2030
The year is still 2019, but Twitter's Bitcoin community is sharing its predictions for the blockchain and cryptocurrency ...
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Bitcoin has record-breaking Q2, network health at all time high – here’s what happened
Bitcoin had a great second quarter overall. It was not without its ups and downs, though. Seemingly Facebook's Libra announcement ...
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Ethereum lagged in active dapp users in Q2, but its price doubled - here's what happened
Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum had one of the best quarters it's had in a while, despite this, it still lags behind TRON in terms ...
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Ripple Q2: Market share is down, but price is up – here’s what happened
Ripple did show an improvement and positive growth in Q2 over Q1, but it wasn't enough to alleviate the coin's poor start ...
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Coinbase quietly kills its loss-making cryptocurrency investment packages
Further to shutting down its cryptocurrency index fund late last year, Coinbase has seemingly closed its "Bundle" now too. ...
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Israeli hacker allegedly stole $1.7M in cryptocurrency from Europeans
A cybercriminal from Israel is facing a list of felonies associated with the supposed theft of $1.7 million (6.1 million ...
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55,000 cryptocurrency users affected in Bitpoint’s $28 million hack
The president of embattled cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint has revealed the full extent of last week's $28 million hack. ...
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Meet the blockchain developer building 12 Lightning apps in 12 months
Hard Fork spoke with developer Guillaume Verbal who has set himself the challenge of making 12 Lightning Apps in 12 months ...
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Ethereum still loved by dapp developers, but trails behind in active users
There's a huge number of dapps running on Ethereum, more than any other blockchain, but platforms on other networks have ...
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You can now buy shares in this brewery using cryptocurrency
Paying for coffee with Bitcoin is a common trope in the cryptocurrency industry, but what about buying shares of a beer company ...
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eToro adds 5 Ethereum tokens to its cryptocurrency wallet – plans to add 115 more
eToroX, the specialized blockchain division of social trading platform eToro, has announced the launch of the first five ...
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Opera officially launches its blockchain-ready browser for the iPhone
Opera already launched its cryptocurrency and blockchain-ready browser for Android and PC users. Today it launches its iPhone ...
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Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency on Reddit, followed by Ethereum and Monero
Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency on Reddit with an average of 3,600 comments about the digital currency being posted ...
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This girthy penis is buried deep inside the Ethereum blockchain (NSFW)
A pair of conceptual artists have claimed the first ASCII penis to be written to Ethereum's blockchain, a milestone in cryptocurrency ...
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Microsoft seems very proud of its smart contract auditing tools for blockchain
Microsoft is very proud of its Azure Blockchain-powered smart contract auditing tools for Ethereum which supposedly make ...
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IOTA wants to ditch its most centralized component, but the timeline is still murky
IOTA has released a new white paper detailing its plans to once and for all get rid of the Coordinator – but the timeline ...
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These are the top 10 programming languages in blockchain
It turns out that Ethereum's Solidity, JavaScript, and Java are the most popular blockchain development languages, according ...
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Top 100 dapps: Ethereum is for gaming, EOS and TRON are for gambling
Gambling persists as a primary use case Ethereum, EOS and TRON, with almost half of the top 100 decentralized apps focused ...
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PayPal snitched on bullish movie pirate who bought $1M in cryptocurrency from Coinbase
US authorities have seized over $4 million worth of cryptocurrency and cash following in a movie piracy investigation conducted ...
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Opera: Self-sovereign identity is the next target for dapps
Margarita Khartanovic took to the Hard Fork stage at TNW2019 this morning to talk with Charles Hamel, Opera's crypto product ...
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Prince Charles on Bitcoin: 'It's a very interesting development'
A Twitter user posted a video of them asking Prince Charles what he thought of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain yesterday. ...
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eToro is giving away $1,650,000 worth of Ethereum for free
Want to make your first cryptocurrency investment without any of the risk? eToro is giving free Ethereum to anyone who opens ...
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Microsoft releases Visual Studio dev kit for Ethereum dapps
Microsoft is further broadening its suite of enterprise-grade blockchain tools with the launch of a dapp development kit ...
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Cryptocurrency Q1 roundup: How did XRP perform?
Ripple had a fairly uneventful first quarter showing only a small amount of growth. Like other cryptocurrencies it has been ...
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Amazon says AT&T, Accenture, and Nestle are all using its blockchain tools
Amazon is ramping up its blockchain services – and it's already convinced giants like AT&T, Accenture and Nestle to use ...
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Vitalik Buterin schools Elon Musk on Ethereum's best use-cases
After some quick trolling, Elon Musk asked Ethereum co-founder Buterin what he thinks should be built on the Ethereum blockchain. ...
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Retired Dogecoin CEO Elon Musk trolls Ethereum and its co-founder Vitalik Buterin
Musk signed a deal with the SEC to have a Tesla employee approve his tweets. Next minute, he's trolling Ethereum's co-founder. ...
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Ethereum bandit makes off with $6.1M after bypassing weak private keys
There’s a blockchain bandit on the loose – and they’ve already thieved over $6.1 million worth of Ethereum.
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4 things that concern Vitalik Buterin about moving Ethereum to Proof-of-Stake
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin took to Reddit to discuss some of the biggest roadblocks ahead the network’s transition ...
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US presidential candidate Andrew Yang wants to fix ‘confusing’ cryptocurrency regulations (and give $1,000 to everyone)
Andrew Yang released a statement on cryptocurrency and digital assets yesterday, making a bid to regulate virtual assets ...
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eToro launches new ‘pro’ cryptocurrency exchange – and 8 stablecoins
eToroX – eToro's blockchain division – is launching a new cryptocurrency-only exchange desks for experienced traders. ...
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Coinbase Pro wiped its Bitcoin to USD market clean, suspended trade for hours
Coinbase Pro's Bitcoin to US dollar markets were interrupted for hours today, after a still undisclosed problem affected ...
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Blockchain governance is boring, butt one developer solved it with assplay
There's a new way to make blockchain bearable: replace every mention of "governance" with "assplay" across the internet. ...
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Cryptocurrency market report confirms gamblers drive blockchain adoption
Ethereum is still the number one choice for developers looking to build decentralized apps, according to a recent blockchain ...
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This app exposes which cryptocurrency a user is most likely to shill on Twitter
Coinflict of Interest will tell you the odds a particular Twitter user showing will show biases towards Bitcoin, Ethereum, ...
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EOS and TRON's most used dapps are either gambling or 'high risk'
The most recent dapp statistics show cryptocurrency gamblng apps are all the rage on Ethereum's rival blockchains EOS and ...
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Liquidators put the final nail in Gatecoin's coffin
One of the first regulated cryptocurrency exchanges, Gatecoin, has officially been taken over by liquidators following a ...
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Swiss watchdog says cryptocurrency mining firm’s $90M ICO was illegal
Swiss regulators have disclosed the fraud committed by Envion AG, a cryptocurrency startup that illegitimately collected ...
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North Korean dissidents raise $14K with 100th 'post-liberation visa' on Ethereum blockchain
Civil Cheollioma Defense selling special visas for Ethereum cryptocurrency, said to allow holders entry to North Korea 'upon ...
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Weiss Ratings: EOS is the best cryptocurrency, then Ripple, and THEN Bitcoin
Weiss Ratings' latest report placed alternative cryptocurrencies EOS and Ripple alongside Bitcoin as the top three, snubbing ...
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North Korean dissidents are using Ethereum to overthrow Kim Jong-un
Free Joseon Genesis Visas are supposed to allow holders to visit North Korea "upon liberation," and can be bought for 1 Ethereum. ...
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A quick guide to understanding blockchain smart contracts
‘Smart contracts’ is a term that gets thrown about quite often in the blockchain world, but there seems to be some confusion ...
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PSA: MetaMask reveals your Ethereum address to sites you visit, here’s how to hide it
There's a setting disabled by popular Ethereum service MetaMask by default, and its putting the privacy of cryptocurrency ...
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Years after brutal $2M hack, Gatecoin cryptocurrency exchange is dead
Seminal cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin is dead, years after it lost $2 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum belonging to its ...
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Abra finally treats its users as adults, lets them handle Ethereum directly
Yesterday, cryptocurrency wallet and services provider, Abra, announced that users can now purchase Ethereum through its ...
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Ethereum insiders deny there’s only one computer keeping a copy of its blockchain
After Ethereum's most recent fork, the cryptocurrency community learned of its special "big, scary nodes," and immediately ...
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4 cryptocurrency Twitter takes you really need to read
Did you miss these hot Twitter takes from cryptocurrency insiders? Hard Fork has you covered, we wouldn't let them go to ...
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Research: Ethereum’s new economic model not ‘lucrative enough’ to keep it secure
Ethereum is switching consensus styles, and blockchain researchers aren't convined it's proposed economic model is going ...
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Carrefour will use blockchain to let curious mammals know where their milk came from
French supermarket giant Carrefour is pouring milk all over its blockchain, allowing its customers to see the whole thing ...
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Twitter's cryptocurrency scam bots are back with a fresh new look
More cryptocurrency scam bots have been spotted in the wild (Twitter), but these look way better than previous incarnations ...
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None of the ‘mining phones’ announced at MWC19 actually mine cryptocurrency
A few blockchain startups announced new "mining phones" at Mobile World Congres (MWC) in Barcelona. The problem: none of ...
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Ethereum is forking again – here's what you need to know
The Ethereum community is today getting ready for two upgrades to its blockchain, following various security-related delays. ...
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Inside NEO’s plans to get Microsoft .NET devs to build apps on its blockchain
We spoke with NEO insiders to find out about NEO 3.0, and understand its plans to decentralize the blockchain (and get Microsoft ...
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Binance launches its decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, but there’s a catch
Binance has finally launched its decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) powered by its own blockchain – but it's only ...
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Coinbase handed out a $30K bounty for a critical bug in its systems
Another day, another bug: cryptocurrency exchange desk Coinbase has handed out a massive $30,000 bug bounty for a critical ...
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The ultimate cryptocurrency explainer: Bitcoin, utility tokens, and stablecoins
Ten years ago, the arrival of Bitcoin changed how we view the global monetary system: it ushered a new era that is reshaping ...
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Only 3 of the top 50 blockchain apps are running on Ethereum
Believe it or not, only three of the top 50 decentralized apps (dApps) are running on the Ethereum blockchain. Say hello ...
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What big-time blockchain investors look for when funding a startup
At Hard Fork, we want to know what piques investors' interest, what drives them to back certain companies, what they're uninspired ...
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Ethereum blockchain undergoes massive cryptocurrency gambling exodus
The Ethereum blockchain was once home to the bulk of the internet's cryptocurrency gamblers, but not anymore. It seems they've ...
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76% of laundered cryptocurrency was washed with an exchange service
Turns out most internet baddies love washing their dirty cryptocurrency simply by using online exchanges, says Chainalysis. ...
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Moonday Mornings: Kik preps to fight the SEC over ICO
It's Monday Morning, you should know how this works by now.Dive in for a wrap up of the weekend's blockchain and cryptocurrency ...
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End of year crypto roundup: How did Ethereum perform in 2018?
The year 2019 has more competition awaiting Ethereum, and the foundation behind the network should get working on ensuring ...
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Ethereum devs reschedule Constantinople hard fork for late Feb
Ethereum core developers have now said they will activate the proposed Constantinople upgrade in late February.
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ICOs banked $13B with ‘little work, accountability, or transparency,’ report
Ethereum's ICO process has earned token founders estimated combined profits of $12.8B, made entirely of cryptocurrency created ...
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Ethereum devs delay Constantinople hard fork due to security fears
Core Ethereum developers have delayed the scheduled Constantinople upgrade after a code audit revealed it introduced new ...
