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Marathon Digital Holdings’s MaraPool has finally signaled for Taproot while seemingly backing away from its controversial compliance push
MaraPool, the mining pool of controversial Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital Holdings, has signaled for Taproot, adopting version 0.21.1 of the Bitcoin Core client software. …
Vladislav Sopov
Another day, another anti-crypto statement by central banks’ bigwig
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Speculative, unregulated, concerning
CB officials are rarely excited by Bitcoin (BTC)
An influential official at the Irish Central Bank and future ESMA head released an alarming statement on crypto and Bitcoin (BTC).…
Nobuaki Kobayashi, the Japanese trustee of the now-shuttered Mt. Gox cryptocurrency exchange, has now allowed creditors to vote on a rehabilitation plan, according to a May 31 announcement:
We are pleased to inform you that the online voting function has been released on the online rehabilitation claim filing system (the online system) (the “System”).…
Cybersecurity truisms have long been described in simple terms of trust: Beware email attachments from unfamiliar sources, and don’t hand over credentials to a fraudulent website. But increasingly, sophisticated hackers are undermining that basic sense of trust and raising a paranoia-inducing question: What if the legitimate hardware and software that makes up your network has been compromised at the source?…
Are you aware of how secure your domain is? In most organizations, there is an assumption that their domains are secure and within a few months, but the truth soon dawns on them that it isn’t.
Spotting someone spoofing your domain name is one way to determine if your security is unsatisfactory – this means that someone is impersonating you (or confusing some of your recipients) and releasing false information.…
Starting June 8, Amazon will automatically enable a feature on your Alexa, Echo, or other Amazon device that will share some of your Internet bandwidth with your neighbors—unless you choose to opt out.
Amazon intends to register its family of hardware devices that are operational in the U.S.—including Echo speakers, Ring Video Doorbells, Ring Floodlight Cams, and Ring Spotlight Cams—into Sidewalk as it readies to roll out the shared mesh network in the country next week.…
Siemens on Friday shipped firmed updates to address a severe vulnerability in SIMATIC S7-1200 and S7-1500 programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that could be exploited by a malicious actor to remotely gain access to protected areas of the memory and achieve unrestricted and undetected code execution, in what the researchers describe as an attacker’s “holy grail.”
The memory protection bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-15782 (CVSS score: 8.1), was discovered by operational technology security company Claroty by reverse-engineering the MC7 / MC7+ bytecode language used to execute PLC programs in the microprocessor.…
Alex Dovbnya
Ray Dalio has explained how China’s digital yuan may compete with Bitcoin
During his interview on CNBC” Bridgewater Associates CEO Ray Dalio told Managing Asia’s Christine Tan that Bitcoin is “an alternative currency.”
Dalio said that it was important to distinguish between the digitalization versions of existing currencies and alternative currencies:
Using blockchain technology and so on…That’s a different thing than having an alternative currency, and Bitcoin is an alternative currency versus the digitalizing. …
Apple’s new M1 CPU has a flaw that creates a covert channel that two or more malicious apps—already installed—can use to transmit information to each other, a developer has found.
Ars Technica
This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more.…
Alex Dovbnya
BNY Mellon, the world’s largest custodian bank, has established a cryptocurrency unit in Dublin
BNY Mellon, America’s oldest bank, has set up a Digital Innovation Hub in Dublin, Ireland, according to a May 30 report by Business Portal.
The cryptocurrency unit will provide custody services for different types of different assets.…