Six Arrested in France After Cryptocurrency Ransom Kidnapping of Magistrate
TLDR: French police arrested six suspects, including a minor, following a 30-hour cryptocurrency kidnapping Magistrate and mother...
Quantum Computers Need Millions More Qubits to Break Bitcoin, CoinShares Reports
TLDR: Breaking Bitcoin encryption requires quantum computers 100,000 times more powerful than today’s technology Only 10,200 BTC i...
Vitalik Buterin Donates to Shielded Labs for Zcash Crosslink Security Upgrade
TLDR: Buterin’s donation funds Crosslink development from prototype to incentivized testnet and production phase. Crosslink adds...
TRM Labs Reaches $1 Billion Valuation With $70 Million Series C Funding Round
TLDR: TRM Labs secured $70 million in Series C funding led by Blockchain Capital and Goldman Sachs investors. The blockchain anal...
Ledger Targets $4B Valuation in Planned US IPO With Goldman Sachs
TLDR: Ledger seeks over $4 billion valuation in planned US IPO, nearly triple its 2023 funding round assessment. Goldman Sachs, Je...
French Tax Official Indicted for Exposing Crypto Investors’ Sensitive Data to Cr...
TLDR Former tax official extracted confidential data on crypto investors using internal databases. Compromised information include...
Quantum Computing Threat: 32.7% of Bitcoin Supply at Risk, Coinbase Warns
TLDR: Approximately 6.51 million BTC remains vulnerable to quantum attacks due to exposed public keys onchain. Signature security...
Trust Wallet Chrome Extension Hacked: $7M Stolen in Christmas Day Supply-Chain A...
TLDR: Malicious code in Trust Wallet Chrome extension version 2.68 stole seed phrases and drained $7 million total. Individual vic...