These days, we should all be taking our privacy more seriously. The age of near-instant connection and convenience has made it easy to leave one’s personal or sensitive data open to attack vectors. This is one of the reasons why I suggest either purchasing a VPN subscription or making your own (if you have the know-how and necessary tools). A VPN service I’ve switched to recently is VPN.AC. I’ve been using it for about 9 months now. Security: 5/5 One of the most obvious criteria on which to judge a VPN is the level of its security and the integrity of its ecosystem.Powered by WPeMatico
There’s been a lot of skepticism aimed at the company Halong Mining and its machine the Dragonmint T1. The firm announced in November of 2017 that it would be distributing its Dragonmint devices in 2018 and stated its miners would be the most efficient machines on the market. So far, after all the controversy, some […]
This week news.Bitcoin.com gave the beta version of the new Circle Invest application a trial on Apple’s Testflight platform. The new Circle app aims to be a Coinbase competitor by the looks of the user interface as the platform has a lot of similarities. See also: How to Buy Bitcoin When You’re Underage The Circle Invest […]
The method of atomic swap trading within the cryptocurrency space has become a hot subject, and a few software development teams have been working on this type of cross-chain technology. One group is Komodo, the creators of the decentralized exchange ‘Barterdex.’ The trading platform reveals a total of 90,663 successful atomic swaps have been executed […]
On the first day of the three-day event Satoshi’s Vision Conference in Tokyo the creator of a project called Safewords presented a new solution to safeguard cryptocurrency ”passwords”. Smartwords is a 2-out-of-3 distributed backup kit for your mnemonic seed words. Also read: Zhao Dong Recounts How He Lost 9,000 BTC Safewords – a 2/3 Distributed Backup […]
Last week the file sharing Bittorrent client that pays users for seeding and sharing bandwidth, Joystream, announced launching on the bitcoin cash (BCH) network. We decided to give the platform a test drive to show how to use the application that offers BCH incentives. Also read: Lawsuit Challenges Google’s Ban on Crypto Ads in Russia […]
Word of mouth sent cryptocurrency investment to an all-time high at the end of last year, and Coinbase capitalized on it big time. As one of the easier sites on which to start buying crypto, it should come as no surprise that Coinbase was the platform of choice for thousands of new investors. Coinbase experienced a surge of investors like never before last winter, taking in 43% of its annual revenue in December alone. What’s the story behind this rise, and how will Coinbase remain competitive with Robinhood and other platforms? Why Coinbase? Coinbase has remained one of the more popular platforms for buying digital assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and
During the Anarchapulco event last week I had purchased a Digital Bitbox hardware wallet. I’ve tested and reviewed a variety of popular hardware wallets over the years and decided to experiment with the Bitbox platform so our readers can get an idea of what this product has to offer. Also read: Venezuelan Government Opens School to […]
With the popularity surge that the crypto domain has seen in the past year, it is not unusual to meet casual investors who have purchased a small amount of BTC. Most of these individuals leave their holdings in an online wallet that is hosted by an exchange, thereby leaving their funds susceptible to hacking. The hacking of the Mt. Gox exchange is a recent example that springs to mind immediately. In that particular incident, hackers stole over 850,000 Bitcoin, worth nearly half a billion dollars even back then. Thus, when dealing with larger sums of money, it is best to make use of a
When starting out with cryptocurrency, it is essential for users to set up a crypto wallet that both is secure and allows for financial flexibility (ease of exchange, streamlined transfers, and so forth). Today, there are wallets that can be hosted online, procured in the form of a hardware entity, or accessed on a computer. However, most users have been found to make use of wallets that are hosted by the exchange that they tend to most often use. With the recent surge of interest in the crypto domain, it is now recommended that investors store their alt-currency holdings in a personal wallet. This is primarily