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The Feathercoin Development Foundation released a blog post-June 29, 2018, noting that it has been 100 days since its formal launch. The Feathercoin Development Foundation was set up in Zug, Switzerland on March 21, 2018. Notably, Feathercoin started as a thread by user bushstar on the Bitcointalk forum on April 16, 2013. The Foundation The Feathercoin Foundation was formed with…

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Popular web browser Opera has added a built-in cryptocurrency wallet functionality to its latest version of Opera for Android. With the appendage, users will no longer have to rely on third-party extensions to make crypto payments.   Crypto Payment Made Simple In a private beta version for Android, the Norwegian software company Opera is rolling out a browser-based crypto wallet…

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Bancor, a decentralized crypto exchange that raised $153 million in June 2017, has lost $12.5 million in ether, the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, in a recent security breach. However, the blockchain protocol and its developers were criticized not for the theft of their funds, but for their ability to freeze funds using a centrally controlled system. Start of Controversy: Freezing…

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With EOS MainNet being successfully launched recently, Infinito Wallet announced that they have activated EOS full nodes as of June 15, 2018, and thus claims to be the first universal wallet which supports EOS mainnet. Now you can check your account balance, send, and receive EOS coins with this wallet, given that you have registered your EOS ERC20 tokens before…

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South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinrail lost approximately $40 million after hackers attacked the company on June 10, 2018. The Great Altcoin Hack Coinrail is a fairly small cryptocurrency exchange and is positioned at 89 in the world according to data collated from CoinMarketCap (CMC). Despite its size, TechCrunch noted that smaller exchanges have a significant number of coins which makes…

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A report from Chainanalysis, a blockchain research company, suggested a tiny group of 1,600 wallets own a third of the entire bitcoin market cap, amounting to about $37.5bn. Potential to Disrupt Market In April 2018, about 1,600 wallets were containing over 1,000 bitcoin (BTC), roughly $7.5 million each, amounting to a total of $37.5 billion. This mysterious group of investors…

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While big-name competitors such as Coinbase and Electrum are seemingly the world’s most widely-used cryptocurrency wallets, a lesser known Chinese cryptocurrency wallet called imToken quietly raised $10 million in funding from IDG Ventures on May 30, 2018. The wallet stores over $35 billion in cryptocurrencies, mostly that of Chinese investors. Impressive Wallet Statistics An estimated four million people use imToken,…

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On April 24, 2018, Changelly landed a partnership with number one exchange Binance, with the aim of bringing more tokens, faster transactions and better rates to their users. Matchmaking in Malta The partnership arose from a meeting in Malta, during which the two CEOs discussed industry issues, government regulations, and the strategy behind their new collaboration. “After meeting Konstantin in…

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MyEtherWallet (MEW), the most popular Ethereum web-based wallet fell victim to a DNS hack on April 24, 2018. Comments made by wallet users on social media and online crypto forums reveal that funds have indeed been stolen from their wallets. MyCrypto, a rival service to MEW, confirmed the occurrence of the hack and informed MEW users that their accounts had…

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In another attempt to leak confidential personal data, an anonymous developer has built a malicious copy of the famous breached passwords database “Have I been pwned.” Fraudsters ‘Hijack’ Passwords Similar to “Have I Been Pwned,” the malware initially lets one check if his/her associated email address has been breached previously. However, it also shows leaked passwords of the breached accounts,…

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