The hackers behind the attack may have been responsible for breaching India-based crypto exchange CoinDCX’s Twitter account given the similar fake XRP giveaways. Scammers have hacked the official Twitter account of the Embassy of India in Oman, replacing the profile picture with Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and using the reply function to spam users with...Continue Reading

The vulnerability in private keys generated by the popular Profanity vanity key generator was noted in January and has already been implicated in at least one major hack. Blockchain cybersecurity company Certik has said a vulnerable private key was attacked in the Wintermute hack. A vulnerability in private keys generated by the Profanity app was...Continue Reading

Assistant secretary at the Treasury Department Elizabeth Rosenberg said sanctioning crypto mixers could help deter money laundering from entities in Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Elizabeth Rosenberg, the assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes at the United States Department of the Treasury, suggested sanctioning cryptocurrency mixers could help strengthen the government’s response to...Continue Reading

The Colorado Department of Revenue offers tax payment through the PayPal Cryptocurrency Hub for personal taxes; businesses are not eligible yet. The American state of Colorado now accepts cryptocurrency for tax payments, Gov. Jared Polis announced on Monday. The option is already available on the state Department of Revenue website.   Colorado tax payments are...Continue Reading

The institutional lending platform has facilitated $1.8 billion worth of digital currency loans since May 2021. On Tuesday, institutional crypto lending protocol Maple Finance and its delegate Icebreaker Finance announced that they would provide up to $300 million worth of secured debt financing to public and private Bitcoin mining firms. Qualified entities meeting treasury management...Continue Reading

On this week’s episode of “The Market Report,” Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss why the crypto market is dumping after the Ethereum Merge and the top headlines in the crypto space. On this week’s “The Market Report” show, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss why the crypto market is dumping after the Ethereum Merge and why the bears...Continue Reading

PBoC deputy governor Fan Yifei said expanding e-CNY trials to the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Hebei and Sichuan would happen “at a proper time.” The People’s Bank of China, or PBoC, will reportedly expand deployment of its central bank digital currency, the e-CNY, to four of the country’s provinces, including Guangdong. According to a Tuesday...Continue Reading

Instead of using moderators to shadowban users à la Twitter, the metaverse could offer a mechanism operable across blockchains incentivizing us to police fellow users ourselves. For all the hype around the metaverse, it is easy to forget it is still in its infancy. While the term has only recently entered the broad public consciousness,...Continue Reading

Ethereum miners have sold over $40 million worth of ETH because of the Merge and plummeting revenue. Ethereum’s switch to proof-of-stake (PoS) on Sep. 15 failed to extend Ether’s (ETH) upside momentum as ETH miners added sell-pressure to the market.  On the daily chart, ETH price declined from around $1,650 on Sep. 15 to around...Continue Reading

The firm has reportedly created a new group focusing on digital assets and onboarded Ira Auerbach, who previously worked at Gemini, to lead the unit. As more institutions become interested in dabbling in cryptocurrencies, multinational financial services firm Nasdaq has reportedly started preparations to offer digital asset custody services to institutional clients.  According to a...Continue Reading