When Disaster Strikes: Developing a Recovery Plan for Bitcoin and Digital Tokens
This is a guest post by Pamela Morgan, the CEO of Third Key Solutions. She is a widely respected authority on multi-signature governance, smart contracts, and legal innovation with cryptocurrencies. Third Key Solutions is the culmination of her work advising bitcoin startups in multi-signature governance processes and key management. Your company's....
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Various blockchain solutions are being used by organizations and enterprises to create efficiencies for U.S. disaster relief efforts. Natural disasters in the United States are becoming more prevalent, resulting in increasing costs, a lack of transparency between state and government organizations and a slew of other issues impacting relief systems. The Pew Research Center found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) public assistance program spent 23% more on natural disasters between 2010–2019 than it did during 2000–2009. Data from Climate.gov further shows that 2021 was....
The crypto lending firm said that the exact amount reimbursed to users will “depend on what happens in the restructuring process and the recovery of 3AC assets." Following Voyager Digital filing for bankruptcy on Tuesday, the crypto lending firm said its recovery plan was aimed at preserving customer assets but did not explicitly state it would be able to return all equivalent funds to affected users.In a Monday blog, Voyager said it had roughly $1.3 billion in affected users’ funds in addition to $650 million of “claims against Three Arrows Capital” — referring to the 15,250 Bitcoin (BTC)....
Hacked DeFi service Furucombo will issue "iou" tokens as part of its compensation plan to repay 22 affected users. Decentralized finance transaction combination tool Furucombo will compensate the victims of a recent “evil contract” exploit that cost the protocol $15 million in stolen funds.Following an internal call with affected users last week, Furucombo released a compensation plan Tuesday, announcing that they will issue 5 million iouCOMBO tokens to the victims of the breach. Issued in the form of ERC-20 tokens, iouCOMBO tokens will represent the rights to claim Furucombo’s COMBO....
Karpeles bowing in apology. Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles just came on Japanese TV channel Asahi News Network today and publicly apologised for the Gox disaster. According to various translations, Karpeles is "really sorry for causing trouble to all the people concerned... The 750,000 Bitcoins we kept for users, (37,000 million yen), are almost all gone." That's more than $400 million of Bitcoins lost due to what Karpeles describes as "weakness in the system." [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeuCuM9CkBc]. Furthermore, Mt. Gox is officially filing for bankruptcy protection, with an....
On May 22, 2010 programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two Papa John’s pizzas. Today, this humorous anecdote is an integral part of the Bitcoin lore, but behind the veneer of playful naivety, it masks a more sinister truth. With projects under way in many developing countries to register property and people’s homes on the Blockchain, are we courting a disaster? If a sophisticated programmer is so woefully unaware of the value in such a newfangled digital asset, can we expect that a person new to the idea of Blockchain, and new to the idea of title itself, can hope to do any better?....