Fed Chairman Shows Support For Private Crypto Transactions
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell testified this morning in front of the House Financial Services Committee, on the state of the U.S. economy and monetary policy. During his testimony...
Does Monero Have a Serious Centralized Mining Problem?
Right now, just 2 mining pools control over 60% of Monero’s network hashrate, but just how serious is this problem? Is Monero vulnerable to a 51% attack? Monero, the privacy coin...
UK’s FCA is on the Lookout for ‘Crypto Experts’
The United Kingdom’s FCA is looking for crypto experts as part of their latest efforts to regulate digital currencies operating in the UK. The UK’s financial conduct authority...
How to Prevent Crypto Criminals from Milking your Laptop
Cryptojacking is a cybercrime in which websites or devices are hacked with clandestine software for mining crypto. Can it be prevented? How do Hackers ‘Cryptojack’ the...
Beware of Microsoft Windows Malware, Warns Singapore Regulators
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has recently issued a warning to financial institutions after 4 high-risk bugs were found in Microsoft’s Windows system. Windows-Based...
John McAfee Drops Bitcoin, Calls it ‘Ancient Technology’
The crypto world was more than amused when anti-virus mogul John McAfee famously said he would consume his own manhood on live TV if bitcoin wasn’t at $1 million by the end of this...
5 Cryptos You Can Still Mine Profitably From Your PC
Mining, for most crypto coins, is a resource-heavy activity. The intricacies of algorithms also make them especially fit for graphic card mining. But there are still projects which are...
Europol: Monero Payments Cannot be Traced
When Monero (XMR) users choose to veil their transactions, they cannot be traced between the sender and receiver. This finding by an Europol official contradicts previous discoveries...
Taylor Swift Photo Hides Malicious Crypto-Mining Code
Concealed crypto mining – using infected computers to produce hashes for specific types of coins – is using more ingenious methods to hide from operating systems. The...
Monero Warns Users of Malware Ahead of Hard Fork
XMR users who downloaded binary files in the past 24 hours or so might have installed malware, Monero said via its official site getmonero.org. Users Notice Weird Binary Files Some of...
Mimblewimble Attacked Using $60 Per Week on AWS
Ivan Bogatyy of Dragonfly Research says he was able to use as little as $60 per week on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expose a critical vulnerability on the Mimblewimble (MW) privacy...
Monero (XMR) Adopts New PoW Algorithm to Fight Off ASICs
Monero (XMR) has to deal with the inflow of specialized ASIC machines taking over mining on its network. After several ASIC-disabling forks, which slightly tweaked the CryptoNight...