Grayscale adds a ‘cool $300M’ in a day and $1B this week “Added a cool $300 million in AUM in one day,” boasts Grayscale CEO Barry Silbert.Crypto fund manager Grayscale Investments has increased its assets under management (AUM) by $1 billion in the space of a week.According to an update posted to Grayscale’s Twitter account on Oct.22, the investment firm currently has $7.3 billion in… Crypto News From Japan: Oct.21–27 In this week’s selected cryptocurrency- and blockchain-related news from Cointelegraph Japan, cryptocurrency exchange Huobi Japan receives a $4.6 million investment, Bitcoin.com acquires blockchain startup O3 Labs, and Ripple CEO Garlinghouse criticizes the Softbank Group.Here is the past week of cryptocurrency and blockchain news in review, as originally reported by Cointelegraph Japan.Crypto exchange Huobi Japan secures… Dev Outlines Three Requirements for Decentralizing Gaming A veteran game developer discussed how and why the gaming industry can be decentralized at the Unitize conference.780 Total views 10 Total shares Blockchain gaming may become the next evolution of an industry that is now well into reaching market cycle maturity, according to Outplay Games’ CTO Paul Gadi.In his panel at Unitize, titled… Bitcoin has a ‘dark forest’ of its own, and it has to do with brainwallets Using weak seed phrases means instant loss of funds on the Bitcoin network.
1896 Total views 21 Total shares The concept of a blockchain “dark forest” has been popularized recently by Ethereum and the existence of front-running bots that will copy any profitable transaction pending for submission.The bots are able to assess if any given… Financial Inclusion, Cryptocurrency and the Developing World Beyond rapidly changing how we create, store and transfer value, accelerating financial inclusion in a way that traditional financial institutions have either been unwilling or unable to.Yet crypto’s possibilities go way beyond banking the unbanked.It allows developing nations and those without access to financial services to avoid the bank completely and… Crypto-hating Wikipedia editor David Gerard claims another victim A Wikipedia page on Australian blockchain firm Power Ledger bites the dust.Anti-crypto activist David Gerard — author of Attack of the 50-Foot Blockchain — has once again used his influence as a senior Wikipedia editor to remove a blockchain related entry about Australian firm Power Ledger.In his latest blog posting, the Wikipedia editor appeared… Beam to Make Its First Move Towards Private DeFi With June 2020 Hard Fork Beam updates details on its June 28 hard fork, laying out foundations for the firm’s future DeFi offering.1095 Total views 23 Total shares Major privacy-oriented cryptocurrency, Beam (BEAM), is making its first official move towards decentralized finance, or DeFi.In anticipation of Beam’s soon-to-come hard fork, the team behind the project updated a number of… Switzerland’s Crypto Valley Association Head Says CBDC Is a Good Idea In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Crypto Valley Association President Daniel Haudenschild said that central bank digital currencies are “the next logical stage.”Haudenschild explained to Cointelegraph that he believes CBDCs are the next stage “in evolution for decentralized finance.” He also claimed that there are currently 34 CBDC projects.
According to him, such digital currencies… CookieMiner Malware Tries to Hack Mac Users’ Cryptocurrency Exchange Accounts, Report A new form of malware steals cookies from cryptocurrency exchanges and other data in an attempt to hack user accounts, cybersecurity research team Palo Alto Networks reported on Jan.31.CookieMiner, a progression of OSX.DarthMiner, is a malware targets Mac users, stealing saved Google Chrome passwords, iPhone SMS messages and iTunes backups on tethered machines and… Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment.Search.