Last month, Coinbase’s acquisition of blockchain analytics startup Neutrino was criticized because of the founders’ ties to a controversial surveillance technology company called Hacking Team. Today Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in a blog post that employees of Neutrino who had previously worked at Hacking Team will transition out of Coinbase, instead of joining its […]
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HypeHop is a product to fix sponsored videos
I’ve been thinking hard about the concept of sponsored content — you can find some of it on TechCrunch if you look hard enough, and it appears almost everywhere else. It’s an important consideration, because as an online journalist I’ve heard everything from “How much did Apple pay you to post this?” to “How much […]
View More HypeHop is a product to fix sponsored videosMore than half of crypto news sites are pay-for-play
In a clever bit of sleuthing by Corin Faife at Breaker, we find that over half of the most popular crypto blogs offer pay-for-play posts including “CEO interviews” that are not labelled as sponsored. Further, many sites offer premium services in which blog writers will repost PR content without a sponsored tag. As I noted […]
View More More than half of crypto news sites are pay-for-playCrypto giant Binance looks to the future with fiat trading and a decentralized exchange
Binance, the one-year-old startup that appeared from nowhere to become the world’s top crypto exchange, is making major moves as it enters the next phase of its business. That includes a plan to offer fiat-to-crypto trading in international markets and the release of a decentralized exchange to complement its current trading site. The company routinely […]
View More Crypto giant Binance looks to the future with fiat trading and a decentralized exchangeGoogle’s blanket ban of cryptocurrency ads ends next month
Google is rolling back its ban on cryptocurrency advertisements – following a similar move made by Facebook earlier this summer, CNBC reports. Google in March was among the first of the major platforms to announce it would no longer run ban cryptocurrency ads, due to an abundance of caution around an industry where there’s so […]
View More Google’s blanket ban of cryptocurrency ads ends next monthMessaging firm Line launches a dedicated crypto fund
Messaging company Line is continuing to burrow deep into the crypto space after it announced the launch of a $10 million investment fund. The fund will be operated by Line’s Korea-based blockchain subsidiary Unblock Corporation, which is tasked with research, education and other blockchain-related services. The fund will be called Unblock Ventures and it’ll initially have […]
View More Messaging firm Line launches a dedicated crypto fundDuo Security researchers’ Twitter ‘bot or not’ study unearths crypto botnet
A team of researchers at Duo Security has unearthed a sophisticated botnet operating on Twitter — and being used to spread a cryptocurrency scam. The botnet was discovered during the course of a wider research project to create and publish a methodology for identifying Twitter account automation — to help support further research into bots […]
View More Duo Security researchers’ Twitter ‘bot or not’ study unearths crypto botnetThe writer whose book became ‘The Social Network’ just sold another book about the Winklevoss twins
The title could just as easily be Sweet Justice. The Boston-headquartered publishing house Little, Brown has agreed to publish a new book about Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who famously settled a 2008 lawsuit against their former Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook’s earliest days, then made a much larger fortune with their settlement money by […]
View More The writer whose book became ‘The Social Network’ just sold another book about the Winklevoss twinsCrypto’s most popular wallet service is getting a mobile app for secure login
MyEtherWallet, the most popular crypto wallet service on the internet, is finally getting a mobile app as it bids to increase security for its users. Today the company introduced MEW Connect, an iOS app that allows users to access their wallet through MyEtherWallet but without the need to type their private key. There are already […]
View More Crypto’s most popular wallet service is getting a mobile app for secure loginKodak-branded KashMiner Bitcoin mining rig for rent wasn’t — and won’t be
Write off another piece of crypto craziness: A Kodak-branded Bitcoin-mining rig that was on show at CES in January, where it generated much headshaking and skepticism that it could ever deliver the claimed returns, has evaporated into the ideas ether from whence it came. The BBC reports that the plan to rent access to Kodak-branded […]
View More Kodak-branded KashMiner Bitcoin mining rig for rent wasn’t — and won’t beThe crypto world’s latest hack sees Israel’s Bancor lose $23.5M
Bancor, a crypto company that touts a decentralized exchange service, has lost some $23.5 million of cryptocurrency tokens belonging to its users following a hack. The Israel-based company raised over $150 million in an ICO last year and its services include a wallet with a built-in exchange service. Today, Bancor said in a statement that “a […]
View More The crypto world’s latest hack sees Israel’s Bancor lose $23.5MRIP “crypto”
RIP “crypto”. You had a good run. This week veteran cryptographer Matt Blaze, finally gave in — to what must have been a near-constant, low-level drone of ‘CAn Buy Crypto.com???$$$$!’ spam — and sold the pithy domain name he registered in 1993, in the midst of the PC era crypto wars, to use as an […]
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