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
This article was updated with additional information on September 4th after the BTC Times received a response from SatoshiLabs.
According to a developer of hardware wallet ShiftCrypto, an attack vector affecting KeepKey and Trezor devices could allow hackers to hold crypto funds ransom.
The developer goes by Marko and writes
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
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
This article was updated with additional information on September 4th after the BTC Times received a response from SatoshiLabs.
According to a developer of hardware wallet ShiftCrypto, an attack vector affecting KeepKey and Trezor devices could allow hackers to hold crypto funds ransom.
The developer goes by Marko and writes
In 2014, engineer Pieter Wuille abandoned his post at Google to join the Bitcoin development company Blockstream as a co-founder and core engineer. The developer is now moving on to Chaincode Labs, a research and development group focused on Bitcoin and related technologies. His exact job title is currently unknown.
Earlier this year, fears were rife on Twitter of a Bitcoin "miner capitulation" in response to the March price crash and the block reward halving just months later. After the halving, certain analysts argued that the median miner was in the red as long as bitcoin traded below
The mystery surrounding Ethereum’s total ether supply may soon be clarified, as the blockchain’s creator, Vitalik Buterin, recently agreed to help orchestrate a coordinated audit of the total ether supply.
Buterin agreed to the challenge during a recent appearance on the What Bitcoin Did podcast, in which he
The debate that started between members of the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities has continued into its second week. After worries about the extent of ether's circulating supply were largely put to bed by efforts sponsored by Kraken's Pierre Rochard, the focus has now shifted to Ethereum
Lightning Labs, a Bitcoin company backed by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev, released lnd 0.11-beta on August 20th, an upgrade to the Lightning Network Daemon (LND) that allows for the operation of bigger Lightning channels.
Since 2016, Lightning Labs, which recently raised a $10 million
