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A new malicious clipper application disguised as Ethereum wallet MetaMask was discovered in the Google Play app store. This was reported by the company Eset. As security specialist Lukas Stefanko writes in the company's blog, the purpose of the application was to steal data needed to gain access to users' Ethereum wallets. In particular, it could replace the addresses of the purses copied to the clipboard with the addresses of hackers. […]

TradeBlock researchers have concluded that investor interest in bitcoin futures on the US stock exchanges CME and Cboe is gradually fading. We published a new report analyzing #bitcoin futures trading activity over the past year: https://t.co/3udwo6wQie pic.twitter.com/uMBDffnsnx – TradeBlock (@TradeBlock) 7 January 2019 p. Regulated futures contracts were launched almost overnight – […]

The largest social network Facebook is negotiating with representatives of at least 12 blockchain startups about their possible acquisition, reports The Information. It is known that among them: the now inactive steyblkoin-project Basis, founded by MIT professor Silvio Mikali, Algorand, a start-up startup specializing in end-to-end encryption, a start-up Keybase. Negotiations with Basis began in December, immediately after the start-up decision on […]

The mobile application provider Abra has announced the expansion of product functionality by adding the option of investing with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies into traditional financial instruments, such as company stocks and exchange traded funds (ETF). According to the company, the application will be available to residents of 155 countries of the world, and investments in stocks and ETF throughout the 2019 […]

Casa bitcoin company opened the source code of its Lightning node to make the product more reliable for users. At the same time, representatives of the company stressed that at the moment they are not going to create a full-scale opensource project. Announcement 1 comin 'in hot: You've asked, and now we're delivering. Casa Node code is now open sourced! For more details, read our official announcement here: […]