Credit: Miloslav Hamrik – Pixabay according to KPMG, 8.79 billion euros in crypto-currencies have been stolen since 2017. The network of audit firms believes that the safety standards are not strict enough today, leaving a "tremendous profit opportunity" for custodians. In a report released Monday, KPMG explains that the " lax security " and the…
A transaction Bitcoin would consume the same amount ofelectricity than a British household for almost two months. In any case, that’s what Alex de Vries, blockchain specialist at PWC, sure TheTelegraph. According to him, at its highest, the first cryptocurrency of the market consumes as muchelectricity that the Chile. The carbon footprint of a single…
The owner of the Swiss national stock exchange, SIX, signed a partnership with Omniex, a startup that offers a digital asset trading platform dedicated to institutional investors. The Swiss SIX continues its cryptocurrency excursion with a investment, the amount of which has not been disclosed, in Omniex, a startup specialized in this field and based…
It is not uncommon for an application downloaded from the Internet to hide unwanted features such as advertising or scripts crypto-mining. To protect users from sound Navigator Edge, Microsoft includes an option against unwanted applications. Mining cryptocurrencies through its web browsing and browser is not uncommon. However, Internet users are not always aware of this….
Credit: Youtube capture Ripple channel David Schwartz, the director of technology at Ripple, said he is currently working on new solutions, including a functionality to launch digital assets on the Ledger XRP. In a video published Thursday on the Youtube channel of Ripple, Schwartz said he had submitted several improvement ideas for the Ledger XRP….
Over the past two years, the phenomenon of illegal cryptocurrency miners has grown on the Internet and, by managing to sneak into users' computers secretly through malware, they were able to steal their energy and computational capacity. These days, Microsoft has moved to protect users of its Edge browser from the effects of these malicious…
Credit: Capture Square YT According to people familiar with the matter, Elliott Management, a fund that has a significant stake in Twitter, pressured to oust Jack dorsey, the CEO-founder of the social network. Anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg report thatElliott Management wishes to make changes within the management of Twitter and in particular replace Jack…
The startup Unchain.io announced that KLM Royal Dutch Airlines used his technology-based app blockchain of R3 in order to simplify its processes inter-company settlement. According to a press release, KLM Finance now operates the blockchain to simplify its accounting and the settlement process of its subsidiaries securely. The mission ofUnchain is to provide organizations with…
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has chosen Shyft Network to address a looming regulatory requirement that companies must share users' personal data when managing digital asset transactions. The Travel Rule The Barbados-based Shyft Network is one of several potential solutions to the Financial Task Force's (FATF) Travel Rule. The name of this rule derives…
Ripple's investment arm, Xpring, and its software developer platform that allows them to work with encrypted payments, has introduced itself as a sponsor of the ETH Denver hackathon – one of the largest ETH conferences and hackathons in the United States. Warren Paul Anderson of Ripple and Xpring posted a blog post to explain what…
