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Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 10: Bitfinex trading coming back online, App Store fake Bitcoin apps, Kim Dotcom Megaupload Bitcache talk
Bitfinex is big news this week, especially after the hack last week, and the company has begun reporting that it expects to bring most of its trading platform back online along with deposits. The iTunes App Store is still having troubles with fake Bitcoin apps appearing—Apple has been removing those last discovered and reported but ...
Delta Air Lines flight cancellations possibly caused by data center fire
Earlier today, Delta Air Lines, Inc. grounded all flights nationwide–domestic and international–due to a power failure at its Atlanta data center. The outage lasted six hours ending around 8:40 a.m ET, although at that time Delta noted that only “limited” flights would be running and there would continue to be cancellations throughout the day. .@Delta has ...
Numerous fake Bitcoin wallet apps discovered in Apple iTunes App Store
A number of fake Bitcoin wallet mobile apps have been added to the iTunes App Store run by Apple, Inc. very recently, according to a representative from Breadwallet LLC who posted on Reddit. The fake wallets use the same, or very similar, names to existing official mobile wallet apps, but presumably open the user to ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 3: Bitfinex loses 119,756 BTC in theft, Blockstream acquires GreenAddress, Brave browser raises $4.5 million
This week, Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex suffered a major security breach that led to the theft of over 119,000 BTC. The hack also coincides with a sudden drop in the USD-BTC market value of almost 20 percent. The company has released a few updates into the investigation about the hack. Blockstream, the company behind ...
Mozilla begins roll-out of multi-process support and mandatory add-on signing in Firefox
Today, Mozilla Corp announced the general availability of Firefox 48, an update that will include new security and developer features that can take advantage of multi-process support and add-on signing. Although only a few users will initially receive the multi-process advantage with this update, Mozilla will be rolling out the change to more as time ...
Brave ad-blocking browser raises $4.5 million in preparation for 1.0 launch
Brave Software, Inc., a startup dedicated to reinventing the web browser to produce a faster, more stable, privacy-centric and secure software, today announced it has raised $4.5 million in a seed round from venture capital firms and angel investors. Aside from integrating ad-blocking software while using enhanced script-control features, the Brave browser would also implement ...
Blockchain evangelists from MIT, BitFury and Blockchain Trust Accelerator go to the Democratic National Convention
Leaders in the blockchain-technology industry trekked to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia today to speak with various world leaders and political representatives about the future of blockchains. A blockchain is a global, peer-to-peer distributed ledger that is cryptographically secured by participants used to securely record historical transactions; it is also the technology that provides ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 27: Bitcoin not money Florida case, European regulated exchange, Coinbase Australia and Ether, NetCents adds BTC payments
Bitcoin’s status as “money” and as a financial instrument saw some interesting news this week after a Miami judge dismissed a money laundering case because Bitcoin is not money and in the same week a European Stock Exchange added its first regulated Bitcoin exchange-traded instrument (ETI). Bitcoin web-wallet and exchange Coinbase, Inc. has also expanded its ...
Apple, Facebook and Coinbase involved in takedown of KickassTorrents
On Wednesday, July 20, 2016, 30-year-old Ukrainian Artem Vaulin, the alleged operator of torrent directory website KickassTorrents (KAT) was arrested in Poland. He has been charged with copyright infringement and money laundering; domain names related to KAT’s operation have also been sized by the United States government. In order to discover and capture Vaulin, the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 20: Bitcoin Halvening changes little, Ethereum successful hardfork, Bitcoiner travels around the world, Pokemon on the blockchain and Charlie Shrem released
The Bitcoin “halvening” happened last week—an event within the Bitcoin protocol where a new Bitcoin mining era started with the mining reward dropping to 12.5 BTC from 25 BTC. Speculation before the event held that something might happen to the market, economy or community; but so far, very little has changed in reaction. After the ...