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“# Alarming growth of difficult-to-detect ‘Lemon Duck’ crypto mining botnet ” Since the end of August, cybersecurity researchers have identified increased activity on a crypto mining botnet called “Lemon Duck”. The botnet has been around since December 2018, however a big jump in activity over the past six weeks suggests that the malware has infiltrated…
“#If ‘unreliable’ is the issue, why did social media never block anti-Trump stories?” This is what totalitarianism looks like in our century: not men in darkened cells driving screws under the fingernails of dissidents, but Silicon Valley dweebs removing from vast swaths of the Internet a damaging exposé on their preferred presidential candidate. That’s what Facebook…
“# Cornell University shared a surprising revelation about this blockchain paper ” A Ph.D. dissertation On Scalability of Blockchain Technologies has become the most downloaded dissertation at Cornell University in the past eight years. The paper was penned by Adem Efe Gencer in 2017, under the direction of computer scientists Emin Gün Sirer and Robbert van…
“# YouTube’s sleazy decline into scam promotion ” Last weekend, I was watching a sports stream on YouTube. Talented, fearless athletes on the screen, a glass of wine in one hand and a purring cat under the other — you know, those perfect Saturday evenings. If only the stream didn’t keep being interrupted every few…
“# Six Binance Smart Chain DeFi projects awarded grants from $100M fund ” Global cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced funding for six projects building on the firm’s smart chain. In an Oct. 14 statement, Binance stated that blockchain projects AnySwap, Arkane Network, BakerySwap, Bitquery, PancakeSwap and Proxima will receive $350,000 in grants through the firm’s $100…
“# Starbucks and McDonald’s reportedly not testing China’s digital yuan ” American fast-food giants like Starbucks and McDonald’s are reportedly not participating in China’s ongoing digital yuan tests. According to an Oct. 14 report by news agency Sina Finance, China’s central bank digital currency, or CBDC, is still being piloted on a “small scale,” primarily…
“# Uniswap proposal under fire for enabling Dharma to ‘take over governance’ ” Decentralized exchange Uniswap is currently undergoing its first governance vote, which was submitted by open-source lending protocol Dharma. But a number of community members have raised concerns that if successful, the proposal will hand Dharma too much control over the future direction…
“# Exclusive: Bithumb set to launch DeFi platform as a Polkadot Parachain ” Bithumb, a major cryptocurrency exchange based in Korea, announced the upcoming launch of Clover, a blockchain platform targeted for decentralized finance and powered by Polkadot (DOT) technology. The company says that Clover will be an open platform for DeFi applications, leveraging cross-chain…
“# Former Steem devs believe CPU mining is the key to a fair launch for their ‘blockchain 3.0′ ” In March, the crypto world saw the first instance of what many saw as a hostile takeover attempt of another blockchain. Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, had acquired Steemit, Inc. and the Steem blockchain with…
“# Bitcoin has a ‘dark forest’ of its own, and it has to do with brainwallets ” The concept of a blockchain “dark forest” has been popularized recently by Ethereum and the existence of front-running bots that will copy any profitable transaction pending for submission. The bots are able to assess if any given transaction…