We take the recent release of Taproot as opportunity to investigate ways to measure the adoption of SegWit-related Bitcoin improvements in a meaningful way; simultaneously, we put a spotlight on exchanges and their SegWit adoption.

A cat has nine lives, they say. Well, Ethereum is far from being a cat, but according to Arcane Research, the second biggest crypto has been through seven 50% drawdowns. What’s more, this pattern can reveal a lot about Ethereum and the changing market landscape as a whole. So what’s the damage? Ethereum touched the […]

There is an interesting human trait that causes people to grasp and believe any argument, no matter how asinine, when it criticises something they do not like. It is an odd bit of human nature that we see in everything that is tribal that causes a division in people, whether religion or politics or video […]

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There’s a growing correlation between virtual assets and financial markets. Before the pandemic, crypto-assets such as Bitcoin and Ether showed little correlation with major stock indices. But this changed after the extraordinary central bank crisis responses of early 2020. Crypto prices and U.S. stocks both surged amid easy global financial conditions and greater investor risk […]

Intel patched 226 vulnerabilities in its products last year, according to data from the 2021 Product Security Report released by the chip giant on Thursday.

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Oil softens but major correction unlikely Oil prices are softening a little again today, as they continue to struggle around the USD 90 level. This comes even as OPEC+ refused to be pressured into raising output faster in March – or perhaps be forced to do something they’re unable to do right now. The group […]

Blockchain bridge Wormhole has confirmed that roughly $320 million worth of cryptocurrency has been stolen following a hack discovered on Wednesday.

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Ransomware attacks in many cases hit industrial control systems (ICS) or operational technology (OT) environments, and impact is often significant, according to a report published on Thursday by IoT and industrial cybersecurity company Claroty.

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Everything about society sets us up to become subservient to the pursuit of the mortgage — but bitcoin changes that.

The Firefox Reality browser project is being continued by open-source cooperative Igalia under the name Wolvic, with a beta launching next week for Quest.

The effect is nuanced — and fundamental to cyber defense for organizations and nations.

Trend Micro recently patched two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting some of its hybrid cloud security products. Details and proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits have been released by the researchers who found the flaws.

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