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ForkLog 20 31.08.2020

Investor loses 1,400 bitcoins after using an older Electrum wallet

Malicious actors stole 1,400 bitcoins (about $16.3 million at the time) from a cryptocurrency investor who had held the coins since 2017, disclosed on GitHub.

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ForkLog 13 27.08.2020

LINE launches cryptocurrency wallet and blockchain platform

LINE, the operator of the eponymous Japanese messenger, has launched a cryptocurrency wallet and a blockchain platform for developers.

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ForkLog 9 30.07.2020

BitFlyer and Brave to launch a cryptocurrency wallet in November

Japanese exchange BitFlyer and the privacy-focused Brave browser developers plan to present a wallet for BAT tokens in November 2020.

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Krzysztof Shpak 1557 02.07.2020

“BigSpender” Exploit in Some Bitcoin Wallets Allows Attackers to Fake Transactions

The team behind the ZenGo crypto-currency wallet found a design flaw in several competing Bitcoin wallets allowing attackers to trick the software by sending and undoing transactions via the Replace-By-Fee feature.

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Krzysztof Shpak 678 29.01.2020

Don’t Trust the Wallet in Apartment 23: What Bitcoin Wallets Have Worst Reputation and Why

Choosing a crypto-wallet is usually one of the first challenges that a rookie cryptocurrency user has to face. Of course, the internet is full of guides on how to make the choice. Those guides can be good or bad, reasonable or silly, free or sponsored, and so forth. Still, while such reviews are abundant, there […]

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ForkLog 340 02.01.2019

Mycelium Becomes Latest Addition to Foundation for Interwallet Operability

The movement to improve crypto usability industry-wide is gaining momentum with news today that Mycelium has become the latest wallet to sign up to the protocol that provides an enhanced layer of usability features for existing and future wallets and exchanges – making the transfer of cryptocurrencies between wallets as simple and straightforward for everyday […]

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ForkLog 832 18.12.2018

ForkLog Exclusive: Without Fungibility Mass Adoption of Bitcoin is Just a Vision – Wasabi Wallet

Officially launched on October 31, 2018, the 10th anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper, Wasabi Wallet is an open source, non-custodial, privacy focused Bitcoin wallet, which implements the technology known as Chaumian CoinJoin, a trustless coin shuffling with mathematically provable anonymity.

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ForkLog 352 15.12.2018

Samourai Wallet’s New Update Brings Brand New Look, Full Node Hardware Announced

Privacy-oriented Bitcoin mobile wallet Samourai has announced release of a general update, bringing a fresh look and new user interface.

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ForkLog 897 05.09.2018

Jameson Lopp: Bitcoin Users are Their Own Worst Enemies in Terms Of Security

Despite the deep correction the cryptocurrency market has suffered throughout 2018, its capitalization is still holding above $200 billion while leading exchanges are securing deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars every day and institutional investors are looking for a better infrastructure around the industry to take part in the revolution.

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ForkLog 320 01.08.2018

Binance Expands Crypto Services Acquiring Ethereum’s Trust Wallet

Binance, the world’s leading crypto exchange, has made its first public acquisition, having bought a decentralized Trust Wallet. Announced on Tuesday, July 31, the Trust Wallet acquisition is made with the aim “to provide a better service” and “to enhance the safety” for all of its users.

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ForkLog 116 22.06.2017

Bitcoin Wallet Blockchain.Info Raises a Record Setting $40M Series B

Bitcoin and blockchain technology company Blockchain has raised $40 million in its second round of institutional funding.

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ForkLog 28 10.06.2017

How to choose a multicurrency wallet?

1 Why use a multicurrency wallet? Altcoins are gaining ground. The market capitalisation of altcoins has long outpaced bitcoin’s, as seen in the steadily declining dominance index of the first cryptocurrency. There is a vast array of altcoins, some already above $1bn in capitalisation. Many are attractive not only for their technology but also for portfolio diversification. That raises a simple question: where best to store different digital assets?

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