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Reflections on a Swatting: Inside One Bitcoin Engineer's Security Battle

Bitcoin developer and Casa wallet engineer Jameson Lopp recounts his 2017 swatting, and his fight to find his harasser.

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Waves' Decentralized Exchange Had a $6 Million Debut. Then It Got Hacked

This booming crypto platform could hardly be described as institutional, but it isn't fully decentralized either.

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The First Augur Assassination Markets Have Arrived

People are now placing bets on whether public figures will be assassinated on decentralized prediction market Augur.

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Ethereum's Vision for Apps Is Only Growing Bolder

Popular Ponzi dapps aside, for ethereum developers, there's plenty of work being done to make legit dapps an integral part of web 3.0.

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Meet Honeyminer: The App That Lets You Earn Bitcoin With a Laptop Again

Honeyminer's downloadable app isn't the most profitable way to mine cryptocurrency, but it may be one of the easiest methods to date.

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Ponzi Games Are Breaking Out on the Ethereum Blockchain

Two dapps on ethereum that bear all the hallmarks of Ponzi schemes are the most popular games on the site now.

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A New Bitcoin Wallet Fulfills an Old Privacy Promise

These cypherpunk crypto wallet projects want to bring fungibility to bitcoin.

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Decentralized Exchanges Aren't Living Up to Their Name – And Data Proves It

"DEX" is a hot buzzword in crypto trading, but the current models actually offer a spectrum of technologies with varying degrees of centralization.

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Don't Let the Crypto Circus in Congress Fool You

Washington understands cryptocurrency better than this week's circus on Capitol Hill suggests, writes Michael J. Casey.

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An $8 Million Airdrop Ran Out of Tokens – What's Next Is Anyone's Guess

What can a blockchain startup do when it runs out of its own tokens? According to U Network, buy back tokens from its investors.

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