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2 auditors miss $27M Penpie flaw, Pythia’s ‘claim rewards’ bug: Crypto-Sec
Pythia hit with reentrancy attack Decentralized finance protocol Pythia Finance was drained of $53,000 via a reentrancy attack on Sept. 3, according to a report from blockchain security firm Quill…
Leaked Chainalysis video suggests Monero transactions may be traceable
A leaked Chainalysis video suggests that Monero (XMR) transactions could be traceable despite the privacy-preserving nature of the blockchain. The leaked video, which outlines the company’s tracking methods related to…
Hodler’s Digest, Sept. 1 – 7 – Cointelegraph Magazine
Top 5 Stories of The Week Crypto in ‘extreme fear’ as Arthur Hayes tips ‘sub $50K’ Bitcoin weekend Crypto market sentiment has fallen back into “extreme fear” as Bitcoin briefly…
Tether for treason in Taiwan, East’s crypto exchange resurgence: Asia Express
Taiwan military officers exposed in cryptocurrency espionage Two Taiwanese military officers have been indicted on charges of selling sensitive government information to mainland Chinese contacts in exchange for cryptocurrency payments,…
Robby Yung on Animoca’s Web3 investments, TON and the Mocaverse
The word Animoca doesn’t exactly slip off the tongue when speaking English. Is it Japanese? Is it a type of sweet snack? Is it even a trendy type of coffee?…
Help! My parents are addicted to Pi Network crypto tapper – Cointelegraph Magazine
Cryptocurrencies can be fun and profitable, but they can also be addictive. They can sometimes consume an investor’s life and strain relationships with friends and family. YSM, a South Korean…
Are there ‘too many’ blockchains for gaming? Sui’s randomness feature: Web3 Gamer
The number of blockchains out there is becoming a problem for blockchain gaming, according to a Web3 gaming executive. According to Sebastien Borget, co-founder of The Sandbox and president of…
Crypto whales like Humpy are gaming DAO votes — but there are solutions
Despite their name, many decentralized autonomous organizations aren’t autonomous, and control is often centralized among large tokenholders who have the power to sway governance decisions. Whales or small groups of…
Five crypto market predictions that haven’t come true — yet
Crypto narratives sometimes promise a trip to the moon, but not all rockets make it, and markets tend to have a sloppy memory, often falling into the same traps. Source…
$12.1M fraud suspect with ‘new face’ arrested, crypto scam boiler rooms busted: Asia Express
Our weekly roundup of news from Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. South Korean manhunt ends as suspect caught with brand new $15K face South Korean police have apprehended…
Peter McCormack reveals new podcast
Peter McCormack’s life has been an open book. He’s been candid with his audience and with Magazine about discovering Bitcoin while buying far too much cocaine on Silk Road and…
Bitcoiners are ‘all in’ on Trump since Bitcoin ’24, but it’s getting risky
At Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, lines wrap around the block. Delays. The crowd awaits. Rumors swirl. Then the music comes on, and much of the audience stands in awe as…
Yat Siu, X Hall of Flame
Serial Web3 entrepreneur and angel investor Yat Siu from Animoca Brands is on a mission to crack the code of how big the social ripple effect is for every user…
$55M DeFi Saver phish, copy2pwn hijacks your clipboard: Crypto Sec
Crypto scams, hacks and exploits and how to avoid them: Crypto-Sec Phish of the Week: DeFi Saver user loses $55 million in DAI A user of decentralized finance management protocol…
CZ and Binance face new lawsuit, RFK Jr suspends campaign, and more: Hodler’s Digest Aug. 18
Top Stories of The Week Partner of ex-FTX exec hit with campaign finance charges United States authorities have charged Michelle Bond, the partner of former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan…
Bitcoin miners steamrolled after electricity thefts, exchange ‘closure’ scam: Asia Express
Our weekly roundup of news from Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. Southeast Asia’s power struggles with Bitcoin miners Southeast Asia became a Bitcoin mining hotspot after the great…
AI Eye – Cointelegraph Magazine
US wants to flood the Taiwan skies with a robot army The US army plans to combat a Chinese invasion of Taiwan by flooding the narrow Taiwan Strait with swarms…
Dorsey’s ‘marketplace of algorithms’ could fix social media… so why hasn’t it?
Everyone seems to agree that social media has become a cesspit, with cancel-culture mobs enforcing ideological purity on one side and trolls spreading conspiracy theories on the other. X and…
Over 800k servers at risk due to new cryptojacking malware exploiting PostgreSQL
Researchers at Aqua Nautilus have uncovered a new malware that targets PostgreSQL servers to deploy cryptocurrency miners. The cybersecurity firm has identified over 800,000 servers that are potentially vulnerable to…
Beat crypto airdrop bots, Illuvium’s new features coming, PGA Tour Rise: Web3 Gamer
Where are all the new Web3 games this year? — Illuvium founder Kieran Warwick, the co-founder of Illuvium, had an eye-opening moment this month when he had a sudden realization…
11 critical moments in Ethereum’s history that made it the No.2 blockchain
The history of Ethereum began more than a decade ago as a gleam in the eye of its creator, Vitalik Buterin, a gangly math genius frustrated by the limitations of…
Polkadot, Polygon, Monero rise as traders focus on Fed’s Jackson Hole
Bitcoin and most altcoins traded sideways on Aug. 19 as traders await the release of this week’s Federal Reserve minutes and the upcoming Jackson Hole symposium. Monero, Polkadot, and Polygon…
Bitcoin bull rally far from over, MetaMask partners with Mastercard, and more: Hodler’s Digest Aug 11
Top Stories of The Week Musk claims X hit by ‘massive DDoS attack’ delaying Trump interview X owner Elon Musk claimed the social media platform was hit with a distributed…
Low users, sex predators kill Korean metaverses, 3AC sues Terra: Asia Express
Our weekly roundup of news from Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. South Korean metaverses are closing amid scandals and disinterest South Korea’s tech-savvy population, blazing-fast internet, and deep-rooted…