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File picture of a woman selling fruit in a market during a meet-up between local Bitcoin users and foreigners at the closing of Adopting Bitcoin - A Lightning Summit, at El Zonte Beach, in Chiltiupan, El Salvador. | Photo Credit: Reuters…

Because the chip's read-only memory, or ROM, is built into the layout of its physical wiring for better efficiency, Unciphered's visual model gave it a head start toward deciphering much of the logic of the IronKey's cryptographic…

In the weeks after Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange began to crumble last November, he chose to ignore the most basic piece of legal advice: Say nothing, or risk incriminating yourself. He took media interviews. He appeared on…

Between a cascade of indictments against former US president Donald Trump, a tumultuous 2024 election season (in which Trump is a main character), and the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence, 2024 is shaping up to be a complete…

“We don’t take ID or anything. So long as you look over 18, we scan your iris,” said Ana Howard, the contractor hired to lead onboarding in London. But everyone that registers is “one hundred percent informed and knows what they’re signing…

Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency initiative founded by OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman, is commencing its launch on Monday. At the core of this project lies the World ID, an exclusive account accessible only to real individuals.…

The third meeting of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) concluded on Tuesday, with an outcome document and chair summary that saw member-countries agreeing on almost all issues, ranging from a common…

In its report on regulating crypto assets, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) has called for a raft of measures, including data collection and reporting, cross-border co-operation, a governance framework, and regulatory power for…

However, the collapse of the Terra Luna stablecoin in May 2022 blew a billion-dollar hole in the Celsius balance sheet that, combined with a slump in the crypto market, left Celsius unable to meet a surge in customer withdrawals. On June…

The US crypto business is having an identity crisis, which could become an existential one. Are cryptocurrencies commodities, like gold and pork bellies? Or securities, like stocks and futures? The Securities and Exchange Commission,…