Bitcoin's Ransomware Problem Won't Go Away
By the end of 2019, at least $128 million in bitcoin had been paid to ransomware hackers. That's not good optics for a payment system.
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Mar 16, 2020 at 12:34 p.m. UTC
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Lightning Solves Bitcoin's Speed Problem, but Watch Out for Fraudsters
Lightning-based fiat-bitcoin systems could popularize crypto payments, as long as fraud and bitcoin's non-reversibility don't get in the way.
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Lessons From the First Digital Gold Boom
Long before crypto, there was digital gold. The boom of the mid-1990s has echoes for today.
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A Central Bank Cryptocurrency? Not in 2018
Central bank digital currencies may sound like a nice idea, but blogger JP Koning argues they'll remain just that in 2018 – an idea.
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Dec 26, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. UTC
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