Tag: cryptocurrency

March 23, 2022

HubSpot, a Cambridge, Mass.-based provider of CRM, sales and marketing software, confirmed that hackers targeted customers in the cryptocurrency industry in a cybersecurity attack reported March 18, 2022. The “bad actor,” as HubSpot reported, compromised a HubSpot employee account. The […]

January 14, 2019

The three most prevalent threats plaguing the internet have been found to be cryptocurrency miners. In its latest analysis of the internet‘s most pressing malware hazards, cybersecurity group Check Point ranked the supposedly neutral Monero-mining script CoinHive in first place […]

January 11, 2019

The city of New York has a new blockchain center. Opened by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) as part of a partnership with FuturePerfect Labs (an affiliate of FuturePerfect Ventures) and GBBC Labs (a subsidiary of the […]

January 10, 2019

Bitwise Asset Management, a cryptocurrency index fund provider, has applied for a new bitcoin-backed exchange-traded fund (ETF). The application, submitted with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), outlines the company’s proposal. For the benefit of those not in the […]

December 3, 2018

At the blockchain conferences and blockchain industry discussions over the last two years I had many chances to listen to talks about crypto regulation by the new gurus of the crypto. Being a tech law scholar for 20+ years, I […]

November 29, 2018

Earlier this month at the annual Ethereum conference, Vitalik Buterin spoke to Quartz about how he thinks that IBM’s commercial blockchain offerings are “totally not the point…” Blockchain should be open, transparent, and of the people. As soon as the […]

November 1, 2018

It’s not the flippening everyone has been talking about, but Google search data reveals people are finally starting to show more interest in blockchain than cryptocurrency. Following the massive hype cycle at the end of last year, Google Trends suggests […]

September 10, 2018

The blockchain space has been under siege by a massive crypto-jacking campaign. It’s designed to surreptitiously steal your computer power to mine cryptocurrency – and it appears the attackers are showing no signs of slowing down. Just in the past […]

May 18, 2018

Blockchain’s moment in the sun is finally here. It’s remarkable. Databases are a fairly unsexy technology, but blockchain has made the distributed database idea both mainstream and cool. The rush on cryptocurrency, highlighted by Bitcoin topping out at $20,000, has […]

February 8, 2018

Part of the reason cryptocurrencies exist is to create a financial system without the control of banks. But this leaves a vacuum in which some actors are needed to innovate and improve the crypto industry. Although exchanges may seem pretty […]

January 12, 2018

Unless you’ve been off-planet for the past several weeks and months, you’ve undoubtedly been following the ballooning furor — and equally ballooning value — of the cryptocurrency known as bitcoin. With a current value north of $18,000, it’s been the investment […]