Samsung Increases Crypto Info Security on its Smartphones
Korean electronics giant Samsung says it is improving the security infrastructure of its smartphones for enhanced protection of user’s crypto information. Samsung Eyes...
How Would a US Ban on End to End Encryption Affect Cryptocurrency?
According to reports US lawmakers and the Department of Justice want to ban end-to-end encryption in the name of protecting the children. This could have implications for...
Why is Bitcoin Usability Still So Bad a Decade Later?
New technology takes time to filter down to the masses but even after ten years, bitcoin still remains largely user-unfriendly for most. There could be a number of reasons why. Over...
What Could XRP Price Be if Courts Decide it’s a Commodity?
XRP, Ripple’s native utility token, has been stuck under $0.25 for a number of months now, as traders wait for bullish news to arrive. But what would happen to XRP price if the US...
CFTC Chairman: Cryptoassets Other Than BTC and ETH Can Become Commodities
Heath P. Tarbert, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Commission says cryptos classified as security tokens can become commodities. The CFTC chief also revealed that Ethereum...
Crypto Wallet Keys Could Be Stolen Due To Weak Intel Chips
Cryptography is all about security. The notion of having a public and private crypto wallet key and multiple hashes adds to those layers of security but at the bottom of it all is a...
Here’s Exactly How Long it Would Take to Crack Your Bitcoin Wallet
We put a lot of faith in passwords, specifically in the private keys which secure our Bitcoin and crypto wallets. If someone were to find out or hack our private key, they would gain...
SEC Obtains Preliminary Injunction Against Blockvest For Fraudulent Securities Offer
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced a preliminary injunction granted against Blockvest LLC for unlicensed security offer. This overturns a previous court order...
Opinion: ICOs Are Dead, Killed By Regulations
ICOs may have been the hottest thing in 2017 but, unlike the hundreds of amusing Bitcoin obituaries throughout the years, the process of issuing digital tokens to raise funds appears...
‘You Will Be Kicked Out’ – China Officially Bans Security Token Offerings...
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC), the country’s central bank, has officially banned security token offerings (STO) in a continuation of its restrictive legislation...
The Google Pay for Bitcoin Wallets: Payment Codes and PayNym Bots
An emblematic, and probably the most controversial feature, cryptocurrencies brought to the world economy is absolute privacy. Lately, however, it seemed that this property was lost as...
Coinbase Wins Patent to Protect a Secure Bitcoin Payments System
The largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange has made another move towards providing a secure environment for digital currency trading. Identifying the Present Issues In a filing...