Stories by Rebecca Campbell
Lightning Network security took $23,000 from thieves says new report
A new report from BitMex Research found Bitcoin Lightning nodes took 2.22 bitcoin ($23,000) in so called “justice transactions” from bad nodes using the network. The report, Lightning Network ...
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Rebecca Campbell
Ripple adoption gets another boost after Santander bank launches new payment corridor
Spanish banking giant Banco Santander has announced its One Pay FX, a digital banking app powered by Ripple for cross-border payments, has added a new corridor to its blockchain powered servic...
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Facebook’s $5 billion fine doesn’t bode well for Libra
It looks like Facebook’s $5 billion settlement, which was ratified yesterday by the Federal Trade Commission, will likely go through. The deal was approved 3-2 along party lines, with the Repu...
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Chainlink begins selling its ICO proceeds
Decentralized oracle provider Chainlink has been selling large chunks of its eponymously named cryptocurrency over the past few weeks. The coin, known as LINK, reached a new all-time-high abov...
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Prediction market Veil shuts down
Veil, a crypto-based prediction market and derivatives platform, is shutting shop after just six months. Built atop the Ethereum-based predictions market, Augur, Veil was supposed to make the ...
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Virtual Commodity Association creates six regulatory committees
The U.S.-based Virtual Commodity Association (VCA)–a consortium of exchanges–today announced the launch of six committees designed to provide standards and regulatory oversight for the crypto ...
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China accelerates its state-run cryptocurrency efforts to stop Libra
China’s timeline to make a state-run cryptocurrency just got moved forward. The announcement of the impending launch of Facebook’s Libra in 2020 has put pressure on China’s central bank to get...
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Binance, Ripple and Tron work together to reduce “period poverty”
The Binance Charity Foundation is using blockchain to help give one million women worldwide access to free sanitary products. An alliance of 46 companies and organizations have joined together...
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Blockchain industry sees steady growth in early 2019
Blockchain businesses are still attracting new money. A new report by European Web 3.0 venture capital firm Outlier Ventures says that during the first half of this year, some $822 million has...
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Binance builds anti-fraud system to stop the flow of illegal money
Binance has developed an anti-fraud system to identify stolen funds. According to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the new system will track the stolen funds as they travel through blockchain...
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Rebecca Campbell
Second Florida city gives in to bitcoin ransom, pays out $500,000
A second city in Florida has bowed to hackers’ demands, paying $500,000 in bitcoin after suffering a ransomware attack that downed computers for two weeks. Lake City, with a population of just...
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The number of worldwide crypto ATMs breaks 5,000
In yet another positive sign for bitcoin, the number of cryptocurrency ATMs available across the planet has just hit a significant milestone. There are now more than 5,000 crypto ATMs across 7...
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Litecoin now accepted by more than a million hotels and airlines
Litecoin is continuing to drive the adoption of cryptocurrency. The Litecoin Foundation is teaming up with TravelbyBit, a cryptocurrency travel booking platform, making it possible to pay with...
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MakerDAO says Dai is growing rapidly
A report by MakerDAO, the company behind Dai, suggests that the economy of the stablecoin has grown in activity and diversity compared to earlier in the year figures as Ethereum developers con...
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Paxful partners with The White Company to bring prepaid debit cards to Bitcoin users
Peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace Paxful is making it easier for people to exchange their Bitcoin. The company has teamed up with The White Company, a crypto debit card provider, allowing Paxfu...
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Block.one to use “inflation tax” on Voice tokens to recoup $150 million investment
Block.one is getting crafty. When it announced the launch of its Facebook alternative, a social-media platform called Voice, it said it will create a secondary cryptocurrency (also called Voic...
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Visa launches blockchain platform to ease bank-to-bank transactions
Visa today launched its blockchain payment platform B2B Connect, in an attempt to create seamless bank-to-bank, cross-border business transactions. Initially launching to 30 trade global corri...
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Litecoin’s price goes up, and trading volume increases, as its “halvening” beckons
The price of Litecoin hit an all-time high of $129 today, with less than two months to go before the crypto’s reward halvening—in which the payment miners receive gets reduced by 50%—takes pla...
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Bitcoin payments come to largest Slovenian grocery store chain
Grocery shopping in Slovenia has taken a different direction, turning its attention to crypto. Tuš, one of the biggest retailers in Slovenia, has opened its doors—14 of them, to be exact, —to ...
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Truffle and Microsoft team up to deliver developer tools on the cloud
In a new partnership announced today, Blockchain startup Truffle is integrating its developer tools with cloud platform Microsoft Azure, enabling developers to build blockchain-based productio...
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