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No-Fork Guarantee? New Cryptocurrency Touts Resistance to Code Splits The team behind a soon-to-be-launched cryptocurrency has issued the notable claim that it will be un-forkable. Announced today, Hedera is a public network built on Hashgraph, a type of distributed ledger technology (DLT) developed by the software company Swirlds, which has already deployed ...
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$9 Million Lost Each Day In Cryptocurrency Scams While you may be tempted to think that open-source, decentralized, anonymous cryptocurrencies are safe because they are free of control from a single authority and work in a transparent manner, the reality is, they are constant targets for scams, including digital theft, phishing, fraud, and hacking.
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Microsoft: 644K PCs encounter cryptocurrency mining malware every month Each month from September 2017 to January 2018, 644,000 computers on average were infected with malware for mining cryptocurrency. — Microsoft, 2018; While cryptocurrency mining may seem like a simple nuisance, it is a serious threat to IT due to its ability to commandeer compute resources.
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Global Cryptocurrency Volume Down 75% from January High As global cryptocurrency markets continue to slide from elusive January highs, it's becoming increasingly evident that the next "boom" may be further away than many had anticipated. Bitcoin's price is down nearly 50% from its local January 7 high of US$17,000, and other altcoins have seen average ...
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