IOTA
IOTAs vulnerability was found that revealed private key of the sender
Willem Pinckaers, a security researcher, says IOTA’s home-cooked cryptography revealed private key of the sender of the transactions as soon as it was made. The vulnerability has now apparently been fixed, but the private key is meant to be very, very private, and that it was so easily readable is concerning, especially as researchers say there […]
IOTA wallets were hacked
IOTA wallets were hacked, they stole Millions. Individuals have been left with emptied wallets due to malicious websites providing users with a new wallet seed. Two days ago, many users reported having their funds in their IOTA wallets stolen from an unknown source. The cause? Online seed generators. The damage is estimated on around $4million. […]
A Look Back At 2017 in Crypto
With only a few days left in the year 2017, it’s time to look back at how far we’ve come in the crypto world since this time last year. While bitcoin grabbed the most headlines in 2017, it’s not been the best performer by any measure. While impressive at 18x growth, it’s fairly paltry compared to […]
IOTA and Microsoft are not partners
The IOTA Foundation has explained that it doesn’t have a strategic partnership with Microsoft. Dominik Schiener (co-founder) stated: We have never mentioned that any of the companies which are participating in the marketplace are our ‘partners, we call them participants. We are in touch with multiple divisions at Microsoft (Chicago, Paris, Munich). He said […]
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