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This week, we discuss kidnappings & gunpoint attacks demanding cryptocurrency. We often say that cryptocurrency is unseizable. But in one sense, it’s actually more seizable than dollars in your bank account: Kidnappers’ crypto accounts, unlike bank accounts, are unfreezable and are themselves unseizable — making stolen funds completely unrecoverable. Advertisements What can we do to be safe […]

Roadblocks for Constantinople testing, regulatory insecurity in Britain, and who needs Twitter love when you’ve got DocuSign? Advertisements This is the maiden edition of the Daily Byte, a morning roundup of some of the most interesting stories in blockchain and cryptocurrency. Here’s what’s happening for October 15, 2018: “Give Us Time to Think About It”; […]

The Ethereum co-founder and the economics professor disagree about crypto. Advertisements On Wednesday, October 10, economist Nouriel Roubini, who teaches at New York University’s Stern School of Business, angrily tweeted to Vitalik Buterin criticizing him for the delay in Ethereum’s proof-of-stake (PoS) development, as well as about what Roubini sees as the impossibility of any […]

No need to panic, folks. Turns out core devs are pretty good at their jobs. Here’s your chill pill. On the other hand, a tweet by President Donald Trump was included in the block that broke Ropsten. Coincidence? Advertisements On Saturday, October 13, Geth and Parity clients brought the Constantinople hard fork to the Ropsten […]