ShapeShift’s Erik Voorhees: How to Make Bitcoin Unstealable and Remove “God Mode”
ShapeShift has recently announced that Michael Perklin has joined the team as Chief Information Security Officer. Cointelegraph has caught up Michael Perklin and Erik Voorhees, CEO and Founder of ShapeShift, on their way from Satoshi Roundtable and asked to elaborate on some key security concerns that come with Blockchain technology. Coming back stronger. Unfortunately, hacks are still inevitable, and ShapeShift suffered a breach in April 2016. A significant sum from the company’s hot wallet was stolen but not a cent of customer funds was lost, stated Erik Voorhees, the company’s CEO the....
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Recently, popular cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift was hacked twice. The first time, an employee was behind the theft. Then, the employee, “Bob,” sold information to a second hacker, who stole from ShapeShift again. After publishing a play-by-play article on Bitcoin.com, CEO Erik Voorhees sat down with us to talk about what his company is doing in the....
Instant multi-currency exchange ShapeShift was the victim of a security breach led by a previous team member, company CEO Erik Voorhees has revealed. Posting an update on ShapeShift’s homepage, which has been offline since the breach was discovered on April 7, Voorhees wrote: Since the investigation into the ShapeShift hack last week started, we had....
Predictably, negativity in regards to Bitcoin is gaining traction as the fiat valuation of it loses the same, and Erik Voorhees, the man behind Coinapult and SatoshiDice you may remember from The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin, has (generously) taken the time to respond to a particularly denigrating article in mainstream website the Daily Dot's supplement The Kernel. The article he is responding to is by Gary North, a person Voorhees feels should know better. If you're wondering why Erik would bother to respond to such an uneducated position, it's because "Bitcoin is ultimately a battle of....
Erik Voorhees joined the "Bitcoin Magazine Podcast" to discuss his history with Bitcoin and outlook on the larger decentralized finance ecosystem. The post Interview: What Bitcoin Started With Erik Voorhees appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
Bitcoin has several persistent myths about it that just refuse to die. Stefan Molyneux and Erik Voorhees dispel the myths and talk about the reality of the predominant cryptocurrency. Erik Voorhees is the co-founder of Coinapult, worked as Director of Marketing at BitInstant, and was founder and partial owner of the Bitcoin gambling website SatoshiDice. Follow him on twitter at: https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees