Peer-to-peer trading platform Bisq will soon add support for  Segregated Witness (SegWit), according to a tweet on Saturday. Activated in August of 2017, SegWit introduced a number of improvements to Bitcoin’s performance, including an increase in Bitcoin’s theoretical block size that enabled fee savings for users, as well

On September 4th, long-time Bitcoin investor Tim Draper confused his 144,000 followers when he tweeted out a promotional tweet about Bitcoin Cash.  "I recently purchased some BCH. So easy to buy/use. Go to http://Bitcoin.com. Thank you @rogerver_cash for this innovation. #bitcoin #BitcoinCash," the

A persistent problem in cryptography is that of insufficiently random numbers.  Not-random-enough might sound like a contradiction in terms, but the issue has led to known attacks and real losses. On Thursday, the Blockstream research team introduced MuSig-DN, a proposal to overcome the vulnerabilities introduced by bad random number generators

On Saturday, the team behind open-source privacy wallet Wasabi disclosed a vulnerability that could have been exploited to perform a denial-of-service (DOS) attack. The vulnerability had previously been disclosed by Trezor’s  Ondrej Vejpustek on May 10th via a PGP-encrypted message with a detailed explanation of the bug.  Although according

Texan authorities issued an emergency cease and desist order against two brokers and their executives after they allegedly promoted a fraudulent Bitcoin investment scheme in the U.S., as per a document published by the Texas State Security Board this week. The two entities - Forex Birds and Pek Universe

Kazakhstan's new digital development minister Bagdat Mussin plans to reinforce the country's economy by expanding its crypto mining sector with a 300 billion tenges (approximately $715 million USD) investment. Talks of expansion are already underway. On Wednesday, Mussin made the case that fueled by the country&

Stablecoins, cryptocurrencies tied to the value of an underlying asset like the U.S. dollar, will likely soon face regulatory pressure as central banks and other regulatory agencies notice their ascent. Andrew Bailey, the incumbent Governor of the Bank of England, announced the central bank's intent to regulate

Colorado resident Bryan Conner Herrell has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for moderating disputes on the now defunct darknet marketplace AlphaBay.  AlphaBay formally launched on December 22nd, 2014, a month after the Silk Road was shut down by the FBI and Europol. It allowed the sale of similar