News list for "Encryption"
Adi Shamir, co-inventor of the RSA cryptographic algorithm and a Turing Award winner, said at the RSA security conference in San Francisco that "the world would be better off without cryptocurrencies". He pointed out that despite the lofty ideals set forth in the Bitcoin white paper, cryptocurrencies are currently highly concentrated in a few large exchanges, mainly used for speculation rather than payment, and facilitate the spread of malicious software.
On April 17, Project Eleven, a quantum computing research firm, offered 1 bitcoin for its inaugural "Q-Day Prize" (a global award that will be given to the team that cracked the elliptic curve encryption (ECC) key on a quantum computer for the first time in a year using Shore's algorithm. As Project Eleven pointed out, Bitcoin uses the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) for transaction signing; quantum computers use Shore's algorithm, which can theoretically be derived from publi...
On April 9, according to Cointelegraph, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said that the next generation of cryptocurrency projects needs to adopt a more collaborative strategy to counter the large centralized technology companies that are entering the Web3 space. At Paris Blockchain Week 2025, he pointed out that the cryptocurrency and DeFi fields are often limited by the "circular economy", that is,...
According to CryptoQuant data, Binance is leading the way so far in terms of spot volume in 2025. The cumulative spot volume chart shows that Binance leads with the largest share of activity, which has reached $1.90 trillion since the beginning of 2025. Binance controls 43.66% of the total cash market volume ($4.56 trillion), namely: More than 3.6 times that of its closest competitor Greater than the total trading volume of the next five exchanges
According to sources, Eleanor Terrett, Trump will unveil his follow-up crypto policy at the US Digital Asset Summit. Previously, it was reported that Trump will give a speech at the Digital Assets Summit (DAS) in New York this Thursday, marking the first time in history that a sitting president has addressed a cryptocurrency industry conference.
On March 12, cyber security firm Kaspersky found that hackers used copyright complaints to threaten YouTube content creators, forcing them to add crypto mining Trojan SilentCryptoMiner to the video description. The malicious software is based on XMRig and is used to mine cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Monero, Ravencoin, and control botnets through the Bitcoin blockchain. The main goal of the hackers is to provide Windows Packet Divert driver installation instructions.
On March 7th, according to Axios, on the morning of the White House's first digital assets summit day, Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a critical letter to the government's head of cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, David Sacks, known as the crypto czar. Senator Warren believes that the deeper the federal government supports the blockchain industry, the more it will drive up the value of existing holders, which creates conflict of interest issues for officials who make these policies. The...
On February 24th, crypto data analytics company Bitrace issued a warning that after Bybit suffered a $1.50 billion hack, there will be a large-scale freeze for OTC groups and crypto payment companies in the next few months. Bitrace research shows that in addition to using unlicensed industry infrastructure for fund laundering, the hacker group also uses a large number of centralized platforms for dumping, which directly leads to a large number of exchange user accounts that deliberately or unint...
"Kanye may have transferred (or hosted) its X account to BarkMeta Doginals for $17 million," according to crypto KOL Loki The Bird. The evidence provided by Loki The Bird includes the two's account follow and interaction records, their emoji usage habits, and the lighting and shading settings of Kanye's account.
Kanye West has posted about cryptocurrencies on the X platform several times in the past few hours, hinted at the imminent launch of a "Swasticoin" token, tried to contact Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ), and even publicly considered launching his own blockchain. Kanye West said his upcoming token will be launched "next week".
On February 21, Yu Hu, founder of AI-based crypto search engine Kaito AI, said in a social media post, "The KAITO staking reward has been launched, and about 10% of the tokens have been staked, with an annualized yield of 70%. It is expected that this yield will gradually return to normal in the next few days. Investors/foundations/teams' lock-up tokens cannot be staked. The current source of rewards is liquidity incentives, but starting next week, as network fees increase, this will turn into n...
According to Lookonchain monitoring, crypto KOL Ansem received an airdrop of 215,113 KAITO and sold it for 76 ETH (about $206,000). The 215,113 KAITO it sold is now worth about $320,000.
According to the official website page, the new 5% share (5 billion tokens) of the Trump crypto project WLFI has been sold 86.2%. Previously, it was reported that the price of the new 5% supply of the Trump crypto project WLFI rose to $0.05, after the previous round price was only $0.015.
On February 17, KaitoAI, an AI-based encrypted search engine, officially announced that the KAITOYaps snapshot was taken at 12:00 Beijing time today. KaitoAI will also take a snapshot of KaitoGenesisNFT at 12:00 Beijing time on February 18 to notify and reserve time for those who are trading.
On February 16, Yu Hu, founder of AI-based crypto search engine Kaito AI, said in a social media post, "Some people have discovered our token deployment on the chain. KAITO tokens are not officially launched yet - please only trust our official newsletter on allocation percentages and other related matters. More information will be announced at a later date."
