CryptoCurrency
- Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced in Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Billions in Stolen Cryptocurrencywww.justice.gov Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced in Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Billions in Stolen Cryptocurrency
Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced today to five years in prison for his involvement in a money laundering conspiracy arising from the hack and theft of approximately 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, a global cryptocurrency exchange.
> According to court documents, Lichtenstein, 35, hacked into Bitfinex’s network in 2016, using advanced hacking tools and techniques. Once inside the network, Lichtenstein fraudulently authorized more than 2,000 transactions transferring 119,754 bitcoin from Bitfinex to a cryptocurrency wallet in Lichtenstein’s control. Lichtenstein then took steps to cover his tracks by deleting from Bitfinex’s network access credentials and other log files that could have revealed his conduct to law enforcement. Following the hack, Lichtenstein enlisted the help of his wife, Heather Morgan, in laundering the stolen funds.
- Cryptocurrencies are making investors very rich – and making it harder to catch financial scammerstheconversation.com Cryptocurrencies are making investors very rich – and making it harder to catch financial scammers
Improving financial literacy among the population could make a big dent in scammers’ profits.
- FBI seizes Polymarket CEO’s phone, electronics after betting platform predicts Trump win: sourcenypost.com Exclusive | FBI seizes Polymarket CEO’s phone, electronics after betting platform predicts Trump win: source
The incident occured just a week after Polymarket successfully predicted President-elect Donald Trump’s win.
- How much Fairshake and its affiliates spent in your stateprotos.com How much Fairshake and its affiliates spent in your state
Fairshake and its affiliated Super PACs spent over $130 million on the 2024 election cycle, targeting races across the United States.
- Crypto election interference reaches dog mayor of New Yorkprotos.com Crypto election interference reaches dog mayor of New York
Supporters of Bertram the Pomeranian -- and his namesake meme coin BERT -- allegedly tried to bribe voters and even discredit his opponents.
- The crypto community sees a powerful new friend in Donald Trump. Here’s whytheconversation.com The crypto community sees a powerful new friend in Donald Trump. Here’s why
Following Trump’s election, the price of Bitcoin has broken record after record. Many of his plans have caused excitement in the industry.
- SpyAgent malware targets crypto wallets by stealing screenshotssecurityintelligence.com SpyAgent malware targets crypto wallets by stealing screenshots
SpyAgent is a new Android malware that steals screenshots to target cryptocurrency recovery phrases. Discover how it spreads and learn protective measures to safeguard your sensitive information.
- OpSec chief says team quits after ZachXBT exposé, project denies itprotos.com OpSec chief says team quits after ZachXBT exposé, project denies it
What's left of the OpSec team appear to have been surprised by the resignation of its former CEO, Chris Williams.
- Bull doge! Dogecoin soars as Trump announces a government efficiency group nicknamed DOGEapnews.com Bull doge! Dogecoin soars as Trump announces a government efficiency group nicknamed DOGE
Dogecoin has raced higher in value since Donald Trump won the presidential election. The cryptocurrency, whose mascot is a super-cute dog that muses things like “much wow,” has more than doubled since Election Day.
- Trump sells DOGE shirts after Musk appointment, Dogecoin rallyprotos.com Trump sells DOGE shirts after Musk appointment, Dogecoin rally
After avoiding a $DOGE pump and dump lawsuit, shirts of Musk's newly minted Department of Government Efficiency are for sale on Trump's site.
- FTX sues Binance and CZ for 'fraudulent tweets' and $1.8B clawbackprotos.com FTX sues Binance and CZ for 'fraudulent tweets' and $1.8B clawback
FTX says that Binance's founder CZ intended to "destroy his rival" in a series of tweets right before FTX's collapse.
- Zcash Forum Banner contest
Zcash Forum Banner contest
The #Zcash Forum is being redesigned and a contest is being held for the welcome banner:
https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-forum-banner-contest/
- Cryptocurrency: Navigating the Future of Financemoderntech-tips.blogspot.com Cryptocurrency: Navigating the Future of Finance
Let's keep it simple. Cryptocurrency is digital money. It secures transactions & controls making new units. Unlike regular money from governments,
Whether you're tracking Bitcoin's skyrocketing value or diving into Ethereum's smart contracts, understanding cryptocurrency is becoming a big deal.
What is Cryptocurrency?
Let’s break it down. Cryptocurrency is basically digital money. It’s used to secure transactions and manage the creation of new coins. But here’s the twist: unlike the cash issued by governments, cryptocurrency operates on a decentralized network powered by blockchain technology.
Picture blockchain as a huge digital notebook that everyone in the network can see. This makes transactions transparent and trustworthy.
- Store Seed Phrase Backup Across Physical & Digital
I'm planning on getting a hardware wallet for better security, but one part of that which concerns me is backing up my seed phrase. I know I can back it up onto a dedicated metal card which is my plan, but I feel uncomfortable with the idea that my seed phrase is just sitting in my house or something out in the open.
I know it's not advisable to store your seed phrase in a password manager, but I was thinking I could split the seed phrase up and put part in my password manager and part on the physical backup? Something along those lines? I just want to make sure that there isn't a single place where someone would have to compromise, but instead they'd have to compromise both my digital and physical spaces.
Has anyone who has the same concerns come up with a good solution that works for them? Would love to hear about it.
- Can cryptocurrencies ever be green?theconversation.com Can cryptocurrencies ever be green?
Crypto is known for enormous environmental footprint – but some in the industry are now taking steps towards a greener future.
- The Zashi #Zcash wallet now offers a Coinbase integration 🎉
The Zashi #Zcash wallet now offers a Coinbase integration 🎉
- Does anybody understand how to use diva.exchange and what it is?www.diva.exchange DIVA.EXCHANGE: Freie Banking-Technologie. Für alle.
Schütze deine Privatsphäre: deine Identität ist dank DIVA.EXCHANGE von deinen Transaktionsdaten getrennt. Sicher und ganz ohne zentrale Infrastruktur.
I'm having trouble understanding what it is and how to use it. The project website seems to be filled with buzzwords but no actual usecase.
The name hints at a being a DEX, but that doesn't seem to be it. They talk about banking for everyone, but they don't have a coin. What exactly is it and how can one use it? Is it usable by laymen?
Maybe @social@social.diva.exchange can answer or anybody else who understands it...
- Reclaiming Democracy With Bitcoin At The Oslo Freedom Forumwww.forbes.com Reclaiming Democracy With Bitcoin At The Oslo Freedom Forum
The event focused on "Re-claim Democracy," uniting activists, thinkers, and leaders to tackle rising authoritarianism and show how bitcoin promotes financial freedom.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17235581
> "The Oslo Freedom Forum, held annually by the Human Rights Foundation, has become a worldwide cornerstone for human rights activists. This year, the 16th edition of the forum was centered around the theme "Re-claim Democracy." It brought together activists, thinkers, and leaders to discuss the challenges of rising authoritarianism and how bitcoin can support activists fighting against oppressive regimes." > > Link without paywall: http://archive.today/L1n4y
- Gate.io is probably doing fake volume
This exchange claims doing ~30% of Monero XMR trading volume following CoinGecko markets tab.
Monero is a good example because it's not that much speculated (more used as a currency), when looking kraken or tradeogre.
On an other side, nobody mentions Gate as a platform to buy Monero or as a liquidity provider for instant crypto exchanges.
- Ethereum Foundation Deletes Warrant Canarygithub.com this commit removes a section of the footer as we have received a vol… · ethereum/ethereum-foundation-website@769b306
…untary enquiry from a state authority that included a requirement for confidentiality
Canary text deleted:
"The Ethereum Foundation (Stiftung Ethereum) has never been contacted by any agency anywhere in the world in a way which requires that contact not to be disclosed. Stiftung Ethereum will publicly disclose any sort of inquiry from government agencies that falls outside the scope of regular business operations."
- [dev] What's the value of "gasLimit = 21000" of Ethereum in Polygon?
In Ethereum the gasLimit is 21000. The constant.
I haven't found anywhere the value of it for Polygon, though. How much is it? For a token as well as for MATIC itself.
I've found the number 57000 on an explorer in a real TX. Yet I haven't been able to find a confirmation for it elsewhere.
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What I need is to specify a limit in my codebase for transfers of MATIC and tokens only. There won't be any calls to smart-contracts. What number should I put there?
- On & off-ramping via exchanges
Simple question, but I haven't been able to find any decent answer yet: Does anyone have a good guide for reducing fees when buying and selling coins for fiat?
- Breaking Byzantine Fault Toleranceopen.substack.com Breaking Byzantine Fault Tolerance
An overview of a novel approach in appraising the security of both the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks
- Does anyone here use Token Metrics? Is it worth the money?www.tokenmetrics.com Best AI-Driven Crypto Research Platform - Token Metrics
Find the best crypto research, price predictions, forecasts, signals, and NFT analysis at Token Metrics. We use AI and Machine learning to help investors and traders to make money in Crypto.
- Namada: The Fight for Digital Privacy Rages on, Surveillance State vs. Cypherpunks | Interchain.FMyoutube.com Namada: The Fight for Digital Privacy Rages on, Surveillance State vs. Cypherpunks | Interchain.FM
Chjango dives deep with Chris Goes about the philosophy of the cypherpunk movement and the uncensorability of cryptography. Namada is one such bastion of fre...
- Can anyone help me with switching wallet software for my hardware wallet?
I'm currently using Exodus wallet with my Trezor model T and have been having a rough time with it. If I download another wallet software and plug my trezor model T in will the same wallets come up if the wallet passwords are the same or is that not how that works?
- Public blockchains' superpower: strict global consensuspolynya.mirror.xyz Public blockchains' superpower: strict global consensus
There’s nothing new here. I’ve been talking about applications for the last couple of years, but very few care - the industry is still mostly obsessed with infra and gambling. Some people told me “next bull things will be different” - but nothing has changed; indeed, I only see a greater indulgence ...
- Conducting the ETH Censuscoinmetrics.substack.com Conducting the ETH Census
The Unexpected Challenge of Calculating Ethereum's Total Supply
- Fund the Tor network by exchanging cryptos ?
We're running a poll to know, if people would like to test intercambio for funding the Tor network, just by swapping cryptos at the lowest rate.
- Binance was slapped with a $4.3 billion fine because it let groups like Hamas and ISIS receive funds: Treasury Departmentwww.businessinsider.com Binance was slapped with a $4.3 billion fine because it let groups like Hamas and ISIS receive funds: Treasury Department
"Can barely buy an AK-47 with 600 bucks," a Binance compliance staffer told his boss in 2019, per regulators.
- A special private key that can be used to make a TX to a certain wallet ONLY
I want to be able to achive this:
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a private key or its substitute (P) of a user wallet is stored on a server
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there're 100s of user wallets there, so there're 100s of (P) too
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let's say, it's ETH, SOL or any other major network
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server isn't a safe environment, as it's known
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there's also a main, admin wallet (M), in cold, local storage
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(P) must only be used to send outbound TXs to (M). Not anywhere else
This can't be achived with a normal private key, right? But how, if at all, it can be archived? Multisignature wallets?
The goal is automate withdrawals from the user wallets on a server, to make the process safer.
I don't consider any third-party solutions.
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I'm a developer
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- Signum network
Hello, did you know about signum network? I've been researching it for some time and it seems good, nothing wrong about it besides low popularity. It uses proof of capacity (where mining is reading special files from disk instead of using cpu or gpu). It has low transaction fees and overall looks like a good project. Do you know any particular reason why it's not more popular?
- What are the best Places to Buy Monero without KYC or Minimum Purchase Requirements?
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3384533
> Hey all, > > I've been curious about purchasing Monero lately, but I'm not a fan of dealing with KYC requirements or those annoying minimum purchase amounts. I'm sure some of you have already found some great platforms that offer a more hassle-free experience. > > Could you please share your recommendations for where to buy Monero without any KYC hoops to jump through or pesky minimum purchase restrictions? Your insights would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance for your help!
