Bitcoin Tech Could Make Flipping Email Accounts Easier
Bitcoin technology can completely transform the way you switch between email accounts, at least that's what Vitalik Buterin, the founder of decentralized applications platform Ethereum thinks. Vitalik believes that the concept of decentralization behind the Bitcoin technology could actually provide ownership of the email accounts to the users and not to the service providers. A speaker at the recently held FutureFest in London, Vitalik says that, "A blockchain is this magically decentralized computer that's going to keep running your program faithfully as long as it exists. You have no....
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The bitcoin world is abuzz with speculation that some of Satoshi Nakamoto's online accounts have been compromised, concerned a hacker could potentially access information concerning the bitcoin creator's true identity or use the accounts to defraud key members of the bitcoin community. Wired reported that the alleged hacker had posted on Pastebin that they would reveal key details of Nakamoto's identity if 25 BTC were sent to a specified bitcoin address. While small donations have been coming in, the address still appears well short of that mark. Administrator 'theymos' of the Bitcoin Talk....
Bitcoin tipping continues to be a popular use case for the famous cryptocurrency. And with the launch of its new “One Time Tip” feature, social bitcoin tipping startup, ChangeTip is looking to make sending value to anyone on the internet even easier. Before the launch of “One Time Tip,” users of ChangeTip could only tip others in bitcoin via their linked social media accounts, including Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, Google Plus, GitHub and Slack. Now, with its new bitcoin tipping feature, users can send value directly by email or SMS/text/iMessage using a one-time link.
BitPay. BitPay, the world's largest payment processor, announced this past Thursday that they had opted to integrate with DriveWealth, a mobile investment platform that is available around the world. With the inking of this deal, DriveWealth becomes the first financial services company to allow users to fund their accounts using bitcoin. Bitcoin's borderless and growing international appeal will make it easier for DriveWealth's customers around the world to be able to fund their accounts. DriveWealth's Bitcoin integration promises to become the fastest way of funding accounts when compared....
Hardware wallet manufacturer KeepKey is offering 30 Bitcoins ($30,400) as a reward for the capture of a hacker who gained access to emails and customer information on Christmas Day. CEO: email, phone compromised. CEO Darin Stanchfield reported that his email address and phone account had been “compromised,” and was seeking support from tech experts. In a subsequent blog post on New Year’s Eve, Stanchfield went into detail about the hack, which KeepKey engineers managed to contain. “Around 9:00 pm PST, an attacker was able to activate a new phone under my PIN-protected Verizon account,” he....
Email built on top of a blockchain platform might provide more communications security than centralized alternatives. The global COVID-19 pandemic has definitely created a clear delineation of remote work: The reliability of a company lies in its email service provider for all forms of communication.Let’s start with the origin of email. Email has been around for more than 50 years and is a formal channel of communication across the world. With more than 3 billion users, it is the most widely used and instantaneous form of communication. The first example of email can be found on computers....