Technology
3 min read
Veil has launched on Ethereum’s mainnet! What exactly is “Veil?” It’s an easy-to-use interface to the Augur protocol, which might not sound like a big deal, but it is, potentially—but caveat ...
Bitcoin
4 min read
When the first Bitcoin genesis block was mined 10 years ago, it set two balls in motion. The first we know well: a digital currency and ecosystem we call home. The second, and no less importan...
Cryptocurrencies and fiat money are a bit like oil and water. They don’t mix well. Whenever they do meet, fees, theft and crime are often the result. While crime in all its forms is a thorn th...
The scammers are out in force. This week, two miscreants have tried to capitalize on the upcoming Ethereum hard fork and were not just creative, but surprisingly well-informed in doing so. By ...
Blockchain
5 min read
On January 4, after raising $12,000 worth of bitcoin, hacker collective “The Dark Overlord” released its first round of spurious “9/11 truths”—documents that it had reportedly stolen from law ...
Update [January 17 10:00]: According to Elvis Lee, product and strategy at Etherscan, the blockchain records do not show the Etherdelta hacker was behind the attack. He told Decrypt the links ...
Opinion
If the 51% attack on Ethereum Classic taught us anything, it was that miners are essential to keeping proof-of-work blockchains safe. Last week a miner attained control of its network, making ...
Time for another Ethereum hard fork. But no, this doesn’t mean free ETH–and anyone telling you otherwise is probably selling a scam. So what is, a hard fork? A hard fork is a change to the cod...
Cryptocurrency
It’s a sticky wicket. The steps involved in setting up a crypto wallet—which you need to receive and send crypto and use dapps—can be numerous and mind-boggling. What to do? A software wallet ...
Ethereum
Remember when CryptoKitties caused congestion on the Ethereum highway? Congratulations, you’ve been in the cryptosphere for over a year. But since then, the number of users of the digital-cat-...
Here’s a classic recipe for creating a Flaming Crypto Scam: Create one website. Add one, impenetrable whitepaper. Fold in a few barrels of confusion, and voila! Your scam is ready to serve. Th...
6 min read
[Added further comments at 6PM GMT, Jan 14] “KodakOne,” a startup focused on putting image-copyright law on the—yep—blockchain, has reportedly defied detractors by actually building a viable ...
News
The award-winning designer and writer, Frank Chimero, once observed that “People ignore design that ignores people.” He wasn’t talking about Web3—but he may as well have been. Too often, usabi...
It doesn’t take a genius to know that crypto has been on a steady slide in the wrong direction. Prices are down, hacks are up, and staff are being laid off across the board. But some are hopef...
Call it the Battle of the Princeton Tigers. Arvind Narayanan is an associate professor of computer science at Princeton University, digital privacy expert, and overall smart dude. He’s researc...
Yesterday’s 51% attack on Ethereum Classic was the most recent high-profile exploit of a well known problem with smaller coins. The problem is, you can’t just stop the possibility of such an a...
When the price of Ethereum dropped below $100 at the end of 2018, there was one saving grace. The Twitter-based Ethereum scammers–that offer to send large amounts of ETH in return for smaller ...
2 min read
The effects of the U.S. federal government’s quasi-annual shutdown—the latest spurred by President Trump’s temper tantrum over his big, dumb border wall—have finally trickled into the world of...
Interview
18 min read
Sitting at a desk in a pristine hotel suite in Seoul some months ago, Roger Ver was offended. He was offended by governments, and their groundless wars on drugs. He was offended by technical i...
Voting numbers are low, representatives spend tons on advertisements and there’s widespread vote buying. No, this is not an analysis of a corrupt election—this is the state of the Tron network...
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