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Prosecutor OKs arrest of Chinese executive accused of embezzling to mine Bitcoin
Previously, he wrote for Caixin Global and TechNode, covering topics ranging from fintech to fan economy. …Read the full story
Perpetrator of South Korea’s ‘Bitcoin-gate’ untraceable – Forkast News
The software would have granted the hacker, and North Korea in turn, access to the Korean Joint Command and Control System , South Korea’s super-critical internal military network. …Read the full story
Fidelity allows retirement investments in Bitcoin – Forkast News
When her head is not buried behind a book, she writes about technology like cryptocurrency, blockchain, AI and more. …Read the full story
Bitcoin not ideal for cyber crime, says Filecoin Foundation chair
Back in early May, a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline forced the company to pay the hackers US$5 million in cryptocurrencies. And anyone can see that,” Belcher explained, in a video interview with Forkast.News. “I like to think about this photo that I saw from the Hong Kong protests. Department of Justice has named privacy […]
What’s up with Taproot, the biggest proposed change to Bitcoin since 2017?
The Taproot update — slated to be deployed in November if at least 90% of miners signal support before August 11 — is expected to enhance Bitcoin’s smart contract capabilities and boost privacy. “Taproot is an upgrade that we see not only benefiting Bitcoin. SegWit, which was introduced to increase the blockchain’s capability of processing more transactions […]