Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The United States offered a reward of up to $15 million for information on the Russia-based cybercrime organization Conti, which has been accused of cyber-extortion attacks around the globe, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
The Conti hacker...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
I've been banging my head on a desk for a few days trying to understand the segwit protocol properly.
Another roadblock has thrown me off-guard and I am struggling to grasp the concept of "scriptCode:" used in the signature examples...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. The blockchain ecosystem is growing exponentially. It has brought prosperity to most African countries by creating wealth for individuals and fast economic growth for their people.
However, many believe that the region is yet to tap in...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Many of the financial pyramids identified in Russia during the first quarter of the year have been associated with cryptocurrencies, a top central bank official has revealed. Fraudsters are actively exploiting the hot topics of the day, including the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Bitcoin is on track for its sixth consecutive week of losses, its longest losing streak to date. A confirmation of this pattern is likely to portend additional losses for the most popular cryptocurrency in the world.
As a result, tremendous panic has...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
An apartment in Portugal has changed hands, with the buyer paying directly in cryptocurrency in a reported first for the country. The home was purchased for 3 bitcoins without conversion to euros, under a new regulation permitting real estate deals w...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
In recent years, non-fungible tokens (NFT) has emerged from obscurity to become a vital part of the broader cryptocurrency industry.
Analysts and market participants have forecast a prosperous future for the market in light of this new reality.
Accor...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On May 6, the financial services company Robinhood announced the firm has listed Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) and Ethereum Trust (ETHE). Robinhood customers can now gain access the crypto investment products in order to get exposure to bit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On May 5, Tron’s algorithmic stablecoin USDD went live and so far, the fiat-pegged token has been listed on a number of decentralized finance (defi) protocols. Two days later, the Tron DAO Reserve announced it purchased 504.6 million tron (TRX...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Nvidia Corp. for failing to disclose that crypto mining significantly boosted its revenue. The company agreed to a cease-and-desist order and to pay a $5.5 million penalty.
Nvidia Failed t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Google is establishing a Web3 team within its cloud unit, noting that “it is a market that is already demonstrating tremendous potential.” A Google executive explained: “We’re providing technologies for compani...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued its first-ever sanctions on a crypto mixer. The mixing service was used by Lazarus Group to process illicit proceeds from the $620 million crypto heist of...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
NFT investments have shown remarkable growth during the first half of the current year and are almost equal to the total sales volume for 2021. However, the crypto industry is experiencing a rare market condition.
As per the report, non-fungible toke...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Sony Group Corporation has revealed it has partnered with Theta Labs in order to launch 3D non-fungible token (NFT) assets. The upcoming NFTs will be crafted for the Sony Spatial Reality Display and are designed for three-dimensional viewing.
Sony 3D...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Following the governance vote that aimed to implement a semi-dynamic earn rate for the Anchor Protocol, the decentralized finance (defi) platform’s earn rate adjusted downward for the first time this month. After holding steady with a 19.4% an...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
Bitcoin Core does not have any descriptor or key deletion functions because users may use them to accidentally delete the data that they need in order to spend their Bitcoin.
The recommended way is to import the things that you need into a new walle...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The Central Bank of Argentina has taken steps to ban private banks from offering cryptocurrency services to customers in the country. The action comes after two banks had started offering cryptocurrency purchasing services from their apps. The measur...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Despite Terra buying $1.5 billion worth of BTC this week, LUNA slipped to a six-week low to start the weekend. Overall, crypto markets remained in the red, however ALGO was one of the rare exceptions to record significant gains.
Algorand (ALGO)...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
After some health problem I have lost the private key but I still have the password.
If you don't have the wallet file, the password is useless, as the password only encrypts the file.
If you don't have the wallet file + password, or the private k...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
It has been argued that Russia may avoid Western sanctions for invading Ukraine by using cryptocurrencies.
However, is it viable?
The small scale of the cryptocurrency market restricts Russia’s capacity to use cryptocurrencies to bypass interna...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Following a recent string of declines, ETH continued to hover close to a six-week low to start the weekend. BTC was also lower on Saturday, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency remained closer to a two-month low.
Bitcoin
BTC was o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
How is it possible that bitcoin blocks store transaction data in 32-bit SHA256 strings
They don't. Bitcoin blocks store the full transaction data in binary. There is no SHA256 involved in its storage. SHA256 also produces 256 bits of output (= 32...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
How is it possible that bitcoin blocks store transaction data in 32-bit SHA256 strings
They don't. Bitcoin blocks store the full transaction data in binary. There is no SHA256 involved in its storage. SHA256 also produces 256 bits of output (= 32...