CrowdCurity 'Capture the Coin' Contest Rewards Bug Finders With Bitcoin
Crowdsourced IT security startup CrowdCurity has created a new bug bounty programme with a unique twist. Titled Capture the Coin, the programme is inspired by the well-known capture the flag game, and aims to reward security researchers for locating private bitcoin keys hidden within the front-end of web platforms. CrowdCurity is testing the idea on its own website to start with, and is kicking it off as a competition with bitcoin for prizes. Jacob Hanson, CEO of CrowdCurity, told CoinDesk: "We find it an interesting approach to basically test the security of our own platform." How it....
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There currently exists a crowdsourced web security platform called Crowdcurity that allows businesses to pay for security services in bitcoin and links these businesses with security researchers from all around the planet. While attending the Cryptolina Bitcoin conference last month in North Carolina, I had the chance to meet Jacob Hansen, one of the guys behind it, and ask him a few questions. Interview with CrowdCurity. What is CrowdCurity and how was it formed? CrowdCurity is a crowdsourced web security platform. We connect +1500 security researchers with businesses all around the....
Crowdsourced IT security startup CrowdCurity has raised $1m in seed funding as part of a new investment round led by high-profile bitcoin investor Tim Draper and Kima Ventures. Notably, part of the investment provided by Cryptonaut Ventures was made directly with bitcoin and settled into USD using bitcoin exchange services provided by Vaurum - a CrowdCurity client and graduate of Boost VC's incubator program. Sophos Chief Technology Officer Gerhard Eschelbeck, Cyphort cofounder Dr Fengmin Gong and Mountain View-based incubator 500 Startups were also among the round's strategic investors.....
Your internet searches can earn you bitcoins. How? All you have to do is search for any webpage on Microsoft's Bing search engine instead of typing the URL into the browser's address bar. However, there is a catch. It works only in Bing Rewards supported regions. In a recent development, Microsoft has entered into a partnership with Tango Card for the company's Bing Rewards program. With this program, Bing search engine users can redeem their Bing points for bitcoin. The Bing Rewards program was introduced by Microsoft in select geographies to encourage the adoption of Bing as a default....
Free TON, a decentralized international community of developers and enthusiasts, have launched a brand-new contest to rework the Wikipedia Governance model, and there are thousands of dollars worth of rewards on offer. Freecyclopedia Wikipedia currently boasts over twenty-one million individual articles, and while many last minute homework reports may have been saved by the dusty halls of these hallowed community moderated forums, the way in which we verify information is evolving. As a cornerstone of internet information databases, it is vital that the way in which Wikipedia works, stays....
PRESS RELEASE. IHC token team just announced a contest of video content creation with a prize pool of 100 million IHC tokens among Youtubers. All Youtube content creators with above 1k subscribers can compete by posting a full explanatory video on “Inflation Hedging Coin” between March 15 and April 15. The preliminary qualification will be held on April 20, 2022 and the top 30 entries with the most YouTube views will be selected. Then judges will select the five winners on May 1 from the list of 30 contestants with the most views on their entry video.
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