Under the IRS' latest tax rule, anyone considered a digital asset broker must prepare Form 1099-DA for customers who sell or exchange digital assets to ensure all gains and losses are being reported.
Cryptocurrency mining malware is becoming a huge threat. McAfee Labs has estimated that the growth of the thieving software has grown 4,000% year over year, and there doesn’t seem to be any slowdown as it continues to spread like wildfire.
German central banker Dr. Joachim Nagel says the digital euro won't likely be live before 2028-2029 as Europe continues to iron out roadblocks that prevent the CBDC from being fully established.
In early December, 280,000 of these devil bots went live during a 12-hour period.
Artificial intelligence can be a powerful tool in spurring innovation, but it also has its downsides, and one that could lead it to its worst future is wielding its power to spread disinformation.
Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain and King’s College London have put together a report that shows crypto-mining malware has allowed thieves to get away with 720,000 XMR tokens and points out that most of the malware has been hosted by GitHub.
Roger Ver’s arrest by U.S. authorities on tax evasion charges could signal a turning point in the digital asset sector’s history as ‘crypto’ crooks turn on each other to save their own skins.
Miners turbo-mining on BSV and BCH has happened in the past, but this is the first time we see such a significant spike without any preceding price increase.
In a bid to gain voters' trust, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to put the U.S. budget on blockchain to provide the public full transparency of the government's spending.
For years, advocates for Taproot and Schnorr have cited increased efficiency and added “privacy” because Schnorr aggregates signatures together at the protocol level.
Genesis Mining, the cloud-based cryptocurrency mining service, is hoping a marketing gimmick will help it attract new subscribers.
Known as Fbot, the botnet appears to be based on derivative software from Mirai, an application generally used in DDoS attacks. In this case, the botnet searches for cryptojacking malware before replacing its code, thereby neutering its bad effects.
