Bitcoin and Alt

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Sept. 20, 2024 Cencora’s $75 Million Ransom: A New High in Cyber Extortion https://securityonline.info/cencoras-75-million-ransom-a-new-high-in-cyber-extortion/
April 28, 2024 FBI warns against using unlicensed crypto transfer services https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warns-against-using-unlicensed-crypto-transfer-services/
Feb. 11, 2024 iOS v17.4 Beta 2 Nerfs (Some) Progressive Web Apps for EU Users https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ios-v17-4-beta2-undermines-progressive-web-apps-pwas-for-eu-users/
Dec. 28, 2023 CoinCenter: Broad, Ambiguous, or Delegated: Constitutional Infirmities of the Bank Secrecy Act https://www.coincenter.org/broad-ambiguous-or-delegated-constitutional-infirmities-of-the-bank-secrecy-act/
Dec. 26, 2023 The Invisible Cost Of War In The Age Of Quantitative Easing https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/how-the-fed-hides-costs-of-war
Dec. 23, 2023 Michael Saylor on Bitcoin's Next Billion HODLers https://www.btctimes.com/insight/michael-saylor-on-bitcoins-next-billion-hodlers
Dec. 14, 2023 Ledger dApp supply chain attack steals $600K from crypto wallets https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ledger-dapp-supply-chain-attack-steals-600k-from-crypto-wallets/#google_vignette
Dec. 13, 2023 How To Get Robbed 4 BTC And Be Ignored by Anycoin.cz and BTCPay team https://stacker.news/items/347361
Dec. 12, 2023 Bitcoin is Not Controlled by 6 Developers https://blog.coinshares.com/bitcoin-is-not-controlled-by-6-developers-87cb5c9295d6
Dec. 11, 2023 CVE-2023-50428: Bitcoin Core Client Vulnerability (controversial) https://securityonline.info/cve-2023-50428-bitcoin-core-client-vulnerability/?expand_article=1
Nov. 25, 2023 Typical vulnerabilities in Proof of Stake protocols https://blog.decurity.io/typical-vulnerabilities-in-lsd-protocols-e52ffe4ee175
Oct. 10, 2023 BitVM: Any arbitrary computation can now be verified on Bitcoin, with no softfork necessary, in a challenge-response based protocol that can be enforced on-chain. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/the-big-deal-with-bitvm-arbitrary-computation-now-possible-on-bitcoin-without-a-fork
Sept. 10, 2023 Chainalysis Denounces Bitcoin Core Contributor as “unqualified” https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/chainalysis-denounces-bitcoin-core-contributor-as-unqualified
Sept. 6, 2023 Long-Awaited Bitcoin Accounting Rules to Capture Rises, Dips (1) https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/long-awaited-bitcoin-accounting-rules-to-capture-rises-dips
Aug. 18, 2023 Will Bitcoin stay alive if governments try to kill it? https://x.com/ordinalscouncil/status/1692360327172587670
Aug. 17, 2023 Bitcoin Swings the Pendulum Back to the Jeffersonian Ideal https://tftc.io/bitcoin-basics/bitcoin-swings-the-pendulum-back-to-the-jeffersonian-ideal/
Aug. 12, 2023 BIP 300 and BIP 301: Drivechains https://blog.bitmex.com/drivechains/
Aug. 5, 2023 FBI warns of scammers posing as NFT devs to steal your crypto https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warns-of-scammers-posing-as-nft-devs-to-steal-your-crypto/
July 30, 2023 Bitcoin’s Lightning Network: Fast, Cheap, And A Lifeline For Latin America https://bitcoinnews.com/bitcoin-lightning-network-fast-cheap-latin-america/
July 30, 2023 DeFiLabs rug pulls for $1.6 million https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=defilabs-rug-pull
July 30, 2023 Bitcoin and Elliptic Curves https://twitter.com/ln_capital/status/1685653991013638144
July 28, 2023 House Financial Services Committee passes bill protecting right to self-custody #bitcoin https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1684892716713275393
July 27, 2023 Lazarus hackers linked to $60 million Alphapo cryptocurrency heist https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lazarus-hackers-linked-to-60-million-alphapo-cryptocurrency-heist/
July 27, 2023 Space Force Major Jason Lowery has been ordered by his superiors to take down his book on the national strategic significance of #Bitcoin https://twitter.com/bitcoinnewscom/status/1684651811716689921
July 27, 2023 TokenAuditor: Detecting Manipulation Risk in Token Smart Contract by Fuzzing https://github.com/caomingpei/TokenAuditor
July 27, 2023 Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse https://blockworks.co/news/worldcoin-privacy-concerns
July 26, 2023 Billionaire Bunkers Won't Work https://hellscape.substack.com/p/billionaire-bunkers-wont-work
July 26, 2023 Crypto Bills To Face Congressional Committee Vote https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-congressional-committee-set-weigh-crypto-bills-2023-07-26/
July 24, 2023 Dx Protocol Vulnerability Disclosure: Mitigation of a $5,200,000 Smart Contract Exploit https://blog.decurity.io/dx-protocol-vulnerability-disclosure-bddff88aeb1d
July 21, 2023 Research essay by NSA employees from 1997: 'How to make a mint: The cryptography of anonymous electronic cash' https://twitter.com/cryptonator1337/status/1681612817122701312
July 21, 2023 Fuzzing on-chain contracts with Echidna https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/07/21/fuzzing-on-chain-contracts-with-echidna/
July 21, 2023 Algorand CTO Says Quantum Computing Is A Bigger Threat To Crypto Than SEC https://www.coinage.media/s2/algorand-cto-says-quantum-computing-is-a-bigger-threat-to-crypto-than-sec
July 20, 2023 Tesla’s diamond hands: EV maker's Bitcoin holdings see no change in Q2 https://cointelegraph.com/news/tesla-bitcoin-holdings-no-change-in-second-quarter
July 20, 2023 Kuwait Regulator Bans Crypto Payments, Investment and Mining https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/07/20/kuwait-regulator-bans-crypto-payments-investment-and-mining/
July 20, 2023 Dutch users urged to withdraw crypto from Binance by August 17 https://protos.com/dutch-users-urged-to-withdraw-crypto-from-binance-by-august-17/
July 19, 2023 BTCRecover is an open source wallet password and seed recovery tool. https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
July 18, 2023 Binance money processor Advcash looks like a Russian laundering operation https://protos.com/binance-money-processor-advcash-looks-like-a-russian-laundering-operation/?nocache
July 17, 2023 Bank of America Faces Scrutiny After Coinbase User Alleges the Bank Closed His Account Over Bitcoin Transactions https://news.bitcoin.com/bank-of-america-faces-scrutiny-after-coinbase-user-alleges-the-bank-closed-his-account-over-bitcoin-transactions/
July 17, 2023 Rebuttal of GreenpeaceUSA Report on Bitcoin https://batcoinz.com/rebuttal-of-greenpeacusa-report-on-bitcoin/
July 17, 2023 (Bank of America) - Global Digital Assets - Beyond Crypto: Tokenization https://rsch.baml.com/access?q=s-i517792VNkDKydHLEioQ
July 17, 2023 Brazilian Central Bank Digital Currency Raises Alarm as Developer Uncovers Fund Freezing Feature https://cryptonews.com/news/brazilian-central-bank-digital-currency-raises-alarm-as-developer-uncovers-fund-freezing-feature.htm
July 17, 2023 Bitcoin and the Rise of the Cypherpunks https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-and-the-rise-of-the-cypherpunks/
July 16, 2023 Blowing Up the Crypto Cartel https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/blowing-up-the-crypto-cartel-silverman
July 14, 2023 New York Hydroelectric Power Plant to Power Bitcoin Mining https://finance.yahoo.com/news/york-hydroelectric-power-plant-power-132629909.html
July 13, 2023 Google's Play Store policy update includes a lot changes and new policies for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/13607354
July 13, 2023 Quantifying The Potential Impact Of Bitcoin Mining On Global Methane Emissions https://batcoinz.com/quantifying-the-potential-impact-of-bitcoin-mining-on-global-methane-emissions/
July 13, 2023 Global cryptocurrency regulations https://www.finder.com/global-cryptocurrency-regulations
July 11, 2023 Crypto Twitter won’t let you forget Brian Armstrong’s deleted tweets https://protos.com/crypto-twitter-wont-let-you-forget-brian-armstrongs-deleted-tweets/
July 10, 2023 Pennsylvania House committee unexpectedly drops well setback, bitcoin mining bills https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2023/06/27/pennsylvania-house-well-setback-bitcoin-bills.html
July 7, 2023 AI for All: Powering APIs and Large Language Models with Lightning ⚡🤖 https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-07-05-l402-langchain/
July 7, 2023 Badbitcoin Project - Exposing bitcoin and cryptocurrency frauds since Feb 2014 https://www.badbitcoin.org
July 3, 2023 Modernizing and securing direct deposit systems with blockchain-based stablecoin settlements https://www.coinbase.com/blog/modernizing-and-securing-direct-deposit-systems-with-blockchain-based
July 3, 2023 How I Hacked CASIO F-91W digital watch - Bringing NFC contactless payment capability to a true classic. https://medium.com/@matteo.pisani.91/how-i-hacked-casio-f-91w-digital-watch-892bd519bd15
July 1, 2023 Crypto ATM firm Bitcoin Depot will go public on Nasdaq starting July 3 https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-atm-firm-bitcoin-depot-will-go-public-on-nasdaq-starting-july-3
July 1, 2023 State Manipulation of Markets https://chat.openai.com/share/3eb7c05a-6965-4c00-944f-c564c305e041
July 1, 2023 One more problem with ERC777 https://mixbytes.io/blog/one-more-problem-with-erc777
June 30, 2023 Apple removes malicious Trezor app from App Store https://cointelegraph.com/news/fake-trezor-crypto-app-removed/amp
June 29, 2023 How Perfect Offline Wallets Can Still Leak Bitcoin Private Keys https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00447
June 28, 2023 MicroStrategy Acquires Additional 12,333 Bitcoins and Now Holds 152,333 BTC https://www.microstrategy.com/en/investor-relations/financial-documents/microstrategy-acquires-additional-12333-bitcoins-and-now-holds-152333-btc_6-28-2023
June 24, 2023 Bitcoin is Worse is Better https://gwern.net/bitcoin-is-worse-is-better
June 24, 2023 BlackRock is openly running a super computer called ‘Aladdin’ that essentially controls global finance https://twitter.com/bitcoinnewscom/status/1672401202917564418
June 23, 2023 IMF Capitulates on Bitcoin Bans, Says They're Not Effective https://decrypt.co/145932/imf-capitulates-on-bitcoin-bans-says-theyre-not-effective
June 23, 2023 You don’t have to buy a whole Bitcoin! https://discover.luno.com/dont-buy-whole-bitcoin/
June 22, 2023 How to compute a 256-bit elliptic curve private key with only 50 million Toffoli gates https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08585
June 22, 2023 Former CFTC chair alleges SEC acted deliberately in timing of Coinbase lawsuit https://www.theblock.co/post/236083/sec-acted-deliberately-in-timing-of-coinbase-lawsuit-former-cftc-chair-alleges?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
June 22, 2023 Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Has Ties to SEC Darling Prometheum—Here's How https://decrypt.co/145654/ethereum-founder-vitalik-buterin-prometheum-ties
June 22, 2023 Can Governments Stop Bitcoin - Gladstein https://quillette.com/2021/02/21/can-governments-stop-bitcoin/
June 22, 2023 Bitcoin Magazine - BITCOIN IS A TROJAN HORSE FOR FREEDOM https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-a-trojan-horse-for-freedom
June 22, 2023 Self-Custody - HOW TO SAFELY STORE YOUR BITCOIN https://bitcoin.rocks/wallets
June 22, 2023 Digital Asset Management with Multi-Party Computation (MPC) (Whitepaper) https://www.coinbase.com/blog/digital-asset-management-with-mpc-whitepaper
June 22, 2023 Crédit Agricole’s CACEIS Gains Crypto Custody Registration in France https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/06/22/credit-agricoles-caceis-gains-crypto-custody-registration-in-france/
June 22, 2023 Anti-Privacy - The Chainalysis Guide to On-Chain User Segmentation for Crypto Exchanges https://go.chainalysis.com/user-segmentation-guide.html
June 22, 2023 Limits in the Provable Security of ECDSA Signatures https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/914
June 22, 2023 Shor's Algorithm Does Not Factor Large Integers in the Presence of Noise https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10072
June 22, 2023 Keynote: Bitcoin and the lightning network - A public good.. Jack Mallers - Strike CEO https://youtu.be/PxELH-vWKSA
June 21, 2023 Can Bitcoin Fix the IMF & World Bank with Alex Gladstein & Natalie Smolenski https://youtu.be/aic0_t4do7Y
June 21, 2023 Bitcoin Optech #256: Extending BOLT11 Invoices to Request Two Payments https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-optech-256/
June 20, 2023 Running A Full Node - Support the Bitcoin network by running your own full node https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node
June 20, 2023 Bitcoin - Number Go Up - Alex Gladstein - Bitcoin is a Trojan Horse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xH1vBuDbBA
June 20, 2023 Michael Saylor - The Future of Bitcoin (BTC Prague 2023 Keynote) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mhu6dxj7qk
June 20, 2023 Institutional crypto exchange backed by Fidelity, Schwab, and Citadel launches https://cryptoslate.com/edx-markets-the-institutional-crypto-exchange-backed-by-fidelity-schwab-and-citadel-launches-today/