Month: January 2023

Bitcoin Developers Loses Staggering $3.3M in PGP Exploit

The PGP keys were reportedly compromised for the hacker to gain access to more than 200 Bitcoins lying in the developers wallet. In the latest development of a crypto wallet hack, Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr lost a staggering $3.3 million due to a Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) key compromise. Last week on December 31, Dashjr’s wallet had several outgoing transactions totaling over 200 Bitcoins and an estimated $3.3 million as of the current BTC price. In a message on Twitter this Sunday, January 1, Luke Dashjr wrote: “PSA: My PGP…

Crypto Incidents Involving Exit Scams, Hacks, and Code Exploits Reach Record Low in December 2022 According to Certik – Bitcoin News

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According to blockchain security company Certik, the number of cryptocurrency incidents involving exit scams, hacks, and code exploits in Dec. 2022 was the lowest monthly figure of the year. Certik noted that the combined incidents amounted to $62.2 million “lost to exploits, hacks, and scams.” Record Low Cyber Attacks in December 2022 Result in $62.2 Million in Losses On Dec. 31, 2022, Certik tweeted that the last month of the year saw the least amount of exploits, hacks, and scams. All the incidents combined added up to roughly $62.2 million,…

Bitcoin (BTC) Popularity Dominance Was Unshaken in 2022 but Ethereum (ETH) Outperformed in Total Transactions

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The Ethereum network has significantly benefited from the merge event, which reciprocated to higher on-chain activity on layer 2 protocols. The Bitcoin, Ethereum, and meme networks continued to lead the cryptocurrency market in 2022. According to statistical analysis from Google search trends, Bitcoin’s global monthly searches topped 28.4 million whilst Ethereum came in the fourth position with approximately 3.8 million. In between were Dogecoin and Shiba Inu with a total of approximately 5.8 million and 4.4 million respectively. However, ETH outstripped Bitcoin in the number of transactions in blockchain per…

This Senior Data Analyst Quits Day Job to Focus on TikTok Content Creation

Williams has branded herself on TikTok as a career strategist who helps people build wealth, and now earns a salary of about $200k a year. Hannah Williams, a 26-year-old business management major from Georgetown University, has made headlines across mainstream media following her bold career moves toward TikTok content creation. In her full-time content creation, Williams delivers a TikTok series dubbed Salary Transparent Street that asks strangers how much money they make. Interestingly, her TikTok account hit the ground with a huge following over a short period. At reporting time,…

Revolutionary 3D Mapping is Now Available – Sponsored Bitcoin News

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sponsored OVER has launched the Map2Earn Beta program: revolutionary 3D mapping is now available to everyone. It is an innovation that solves the geo-location problem in Augmented Reality (AR). Over Map2Earn Is Now Live in Its Beta Version OVER Map2Earn has launched its program for geo-location in Augmented Reality (AR) in its Beta version. Specifically, it is geo-locating with 20 cm accuracy outdoors and indoors, compared to GPS, which offers above 6 meters outdoors, allowing immersive experiences in the metaverse to be increasingly perfect. And indeed, the Map2Earn program of…

SpaceX to Conduct $750M Funding Round at $137B Valuation

The leading investor is Andreessen Horowitz, a private American venture capital firm that invests in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. Earlier, a16z already invested in SpaceX, along with such companies as Founders Fund, Sequoia, Gigafund, and others. Elon Musk‘s aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company SpaceX is running a new $750 million funding round that will bring its valuation to $137 billion. According to those familiar with the matter, the leading investor is Andreessen Horowitz (also called a16z), a private American venture capital firm that invests in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. Earlier, a16z already…

Lightning Network gets physical form in Australia with Bitcoin ATM

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The Australian city of Coolangatta has got its first Bitcoin (BTC) ATM with integrated Lightning network capabilities. The new ATM has been installed at The Strand shopping center in Coolangatta and is now available for use by the public. A Bitcoin Lightning ATM works quite similarly to traditional Bitcoin ATMs but saves significant time because of the instant transaction capabilities of the layer-2 Lightning solution. It also allows for purchasing very small amounts of BTC, mostly in Satoshi (sats), the lowest denomination of Bitcoin, where one satoshi is equal to…