North Korean Hacker Group Targets South Korean Crypto Firms With New ‘Durian’ Malware
The North Korean hacker organization Kimsuky has employed a new malware named “Durian” in targeted cyber attacks against at least...
Month: May 2024
Investment Firm Franklin Templeton: Base to Lead Ethereum L2 Sector, Powered by Socialfi
Franklin Templeton, a global investment behemoth, has praised the development and growth of Base, the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum L2. On social...
Philippine Central Bank Approves Peso-Pegged Stablecoin for Faster Remittances
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, has approved PHPC, a stablecoin pegged to the Philippine...
Ethereum ETFs Face Uphill Battle With SEC: Analyst Foresees Possible Delay Until 2025
A senior Bloomberg ETF analyst predicts that spot ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the U.S. are unlikely to emerge this...
Billionaire Barry Sternlicht Foresees Banks Failing Every Week in US
Barry Sternlicht, CEO of Starwood Capital Group, has voiced concerns about the vulnerability of regional and community banks in the...
Nigerian Currency Becomes Worst-Performing After Erasing All Early April Gains
The Nigerian currency, which has been depreciating against the U.S. dollar in the past few weeks, has completely erased its...
Bitcoin’s ‘Existential’ Challenge: Core Developer Warns of a New Era of Internal Struggles
Bitcoin faces a pivotal period that echoes the past block size wars, according to Bitcoin Core contributor Matt Corallo. In...
Kraken Challenges SEC Overreach in Recent Court Filing
In a recent motion to dismiss a case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), cryptocurrency exchange Kraken argued...
Bitcoin Whale From 2013 Resurfaces, Moves Over 1,000 BTC Worth $61 Million
On May 12, as bitcoin hovered slightly above the $61,000 mark, two dormant bitcoin wallets, inactive for over ten years...
Goldman Sachs Analyst Says Consumers Under Severe Pressure as Stagflation Intensifies
Goldman Sachs analyst Scott Feiler warns of a bleak outlook for consumers as stagflation looms, with a bearish stance on...
South Korea’s Bitcoin Premium Narrows, Yet Remains Above Global Average
Recent figures show that despite bitcoin’s downturn in price, premiums in South Korea have diminished yet remain around $1,800 to...
US Scrutiny of Tether Could Disrupt Crypto Ecosystem, Ripple CEO Warns
Ripple’s CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, has voiced concerns that the U.S. government’s scrutiny of Tether, the foremost issuer of stablecoins by...
Match Systems Announces Recovery of $68 Million in Stolen Cryptex Crypto Assets
Match Systems, a cybersecurity company specializing in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) services, blockchain forensics, and investigations, recently announced the recovery of...
Openai CEO Sam Altman Believes Processing Power Might Be the New UBI
Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, the company behind the artificial intelligence (AI) model Chatgpt, has reflected on how the new...
Nigerian Experts Say Past Central Bank Policies Drove Users to P2P Crypto Platforms
Stakeholders in Nigeria’s cryptocurrency sector argue that the Central Bank of Nigeria’s previous decision to exclude cryptocurrency entities from the...
