Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx announced the involvement of third-party legal consultants to solve the problem with the withdrawal of digital assets. Recall that on October 16, the exchange suspended the withdrawal of cryptoassets due to the “unavailability” of one of the holders of private keys. OKEx CEO Jay Hao explained that the lack of a key holder is due to an investigation by Chinese law enforcement authorities against this person, but it has nothing to do

Due to a mistake by the developer of the DeFi PercentFinance application, a fork of Compound Finance, 446,000 USDC, 28 WBTC and 313 ETH were frozen, the total value of which exceeds $ 1 million The DeFi platform team PercentFinance wrote in a blog post that “there is a problem in some money markets that could lead to permanent blocking of users’ assets.” The team froze money markets for USDC, ETH and WBTC. A total

The FTX cryptocurrency derivatives exchange has expressed its readiness to place tokenized ETH based on the Beacon Chain (BETH) signal chain blocked in the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract. On November 4, the developers of Ethereum 2.0 presented a tool for creating an ETH 2.0 deposit contract, which will allow sending Ether from Ethereum 1.0 to Ethereum 2.0. According to Etherscan, to date, the contract already contains more than 19,600 ETH worth $ 7.9 million. The

Bitcoin is gearing up to roll out support for Taproot privacy technology and Schnorr signatures. Blockstream developers have introduced a new version of MuSig2 multisignature transactions. In a blog post, developers Jonas Nick and Tim Ruffing have proposed a new MuSig2 multisignature transaction scheme. It should reduce the technical complexity of multi-signature transactions while maintaining the privacy of the parties to the transaction. The proposed multisignature scheme takes the best from the previous methods. The

David Robinson, regional adviser to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, believes that blockchain will help governments in different countries fight corruption. David Robinson stated that blockchain-based solutions will help fight not only corruption, but also other economic crimes. The blockchain will provide full traceability of transactions, prevent changes to already entered data and protect documents from forgery. According to Robinson, due to corruption, society ceases to trust the state, and blockchain can become

Gibraltar has become a member of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), an organization dedicated to blockchain development in more than 50 countries. Gibraltar’s Minister of Digital and Financial Services, Albert Isola, has announced that the government will promote blockchain adoption in the British Overseas Territories. This requires organizing training seminars for business leaders and legislators, as well as consulting on the regulation of firms in the industry. The initiative aims to make the country

On the day of the presidential election in the United States, bitcoins were set in motion on one of the largest wallets. Five hours ago, someone sent 69,370 BTC that hasn’t moved since October 2013. A few hours ago, the Whale Alert service reported a large transaction from the address 1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx, widely known among crypto enthusiasts and hackers. About two years ago, a wallet.dat file appeared on the darknet, presumably containing keys to this address,

The Ethereum 2.0 developers have published a tool on GitHub to generate the keys needed to make a staking deposit in Ethereum 2.0. On the night of November 4, the Ethereum 2.0 developers published a tool for creating an ETH 2.0 deposit contract on GitHub. The launch of the deposit contract will allow sending ETH from Ethereum 1.0 to Ethereum 2.0. This has brought the launch of phase 0 of the new version of the

According to Atlas VPN, the number of hacks of cryptocurrency services in the first half of 2020 decreased three times compared to the same period last year. Atlas VPN experts calculated that over the entire history of the crypto industry, hackers managed to steal more than $ 13.6 billion. Despite the fact that fewer hacker attacks were made on cryptocurrency wallets, they turned out to be the most profitable. Over the past eight years, wallet

In Finland, hackers have gained access to the medical records of patients in psychotherapy centers and are demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency, otherwise threatening to publish the information in the public domain. The hackers gained access to the medical data of 40,000 patients at Vastaamo psychotherapy centers. The attackers exploited a security breach that appeared as a result of a hack in 2018, but which was not previously known. The hackers began contacting patients whose