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DATE POSTED:March 1, 2020

The IOTA Foundation has released a seed migration tool that will allow users to move their cryptocurrency to safety. The app is a response to a recent vulnerability in IOTA’s Trinity wallet.

DATE POSTED:February 29, 2020

So far, the fast-growing decentralized finance sector has been mostly limited to dApps running on the Ethereum blockchain. Although DeFi Pulse doesn’t yet rank every single DeFi dApp in operation, a cursory glance at the leaderboard shows that ETH dApps dominate. 

Only Bitcoin’s Lightning Network makes it into the top 21.

DATE POSTED:February 29, 2020

Millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin Cash have been misplaced due to erroneous transactions.

Ever since Bitcoin Cash forked from Bitcoin in 2017, users have inadvertently sent transactions to nested Segwit addresses, a type of address that Bitcoin Cash does not support. Later changes to Segwit rules caused the pool of lost funds to grow in 2018 and 2019.

DATE POSTED:February 28, 2020

Cryptocurrency exchanges OKEx and Bitfinex have been hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Feb. 28. While both exchanges confirmed that the issues were resolved and no user funds were stolen during the attacks, the events sparked an industry-wide debate about security.

DDoS Attacks Exchanges

OKEx and Bitfinex, two high-profile global cryptocurrency exchanges, have both been hit with DDoS attacks.

DATE POSTED:February 28, 2020

Brave browser has added an automatic Wayback Machine lookup process when surfers reach a 404 “Page Not Found” address. The update has been included in Brave’s latest Version 1.4 release.

Page Not Found? Go Wayback

Brave continues to drive innovation in the browser wars.

With its 1.4 version just released, users who navigate to a 404 “Page Not Found” page will be automatically taken to an archived version of the page with one click. 

DATE POSTED:February 27, 2020

Ethereum Classic Labs has announced that it is collaborating with Chainlink in order to bring decentralized oracles and external data to the Ethereum Classic blockchain.

DATE POSTED:February 27, 2020

Binance has announced that it will offer zero-fees to users buying cryptocurrencies using Euros, British pounds, and Australian dollars.

Zero Fees for EUR, GBP, and AUD

Users in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Australia will now be able to buy cryptocurrencies on Binance’s platform with their national currencies.

DATE POSTED:February 27, 2020

Bitcoin purchases on Cash App more than doubled over the last year, showing how rapidly the appetite for cryptocurrency is growing.

DATE POSTED:February 27, 2020

Ripple failed to dismiss the lawsuit alleging XRP tokens are unregistered securities. The action could “upend and threaten to destroy the established XRP market,” said the motion.

DATE POSTED:February 27, 2020

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has settled charges with actor Steven Seagal for failing to disclose payments he received for promoting an initial coin offering (ICO) back in 2018. 

The actor paid a $314,000 penalty for promoting Bitcoiin2gen, a controversial ETH-based token that implemented a multi-level marketing scheme to recruit ICO backers.

Seagal Not Above the Law 

The 69-year-old actor has been charged for failing to disclose payments he received for promoting an ICO conducted by Bitcoiin2Gen (B2G).