Mark Karpelès submitted a pull request to Bitcoin Core that would redirect coins that have remained untouched since 2011 to a recovery address controlled by the MtGox trustee, reigniting the oldest ...
Binance floated a similar idea in 2019 after losing 7,000 BTC worth about $40 million in a hack. CEO Changpeng Zhao suggested a coordinated reorg with mining pools to erase the theft, but he quickly ...
Bitcoin Core is open-source software maintained by independent developers, not a company. Many developers started as ...
The developer with the most changes to Bitcoin’s code has announced his decision to step down from the Core maintainer role. Bitcoin Core maintainer Marco Falke has announced he will step down from ...
If you haven’t had a good laugh at Chainalysis’ attempts to defend the use of its blockchain forensics software for law enforcement purposes in light of recent court proceedings, now may be the time.