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Hackers Are Using Fake GitHub Code to Steal Your Bitcoin: Kaspersky

The attack starts with seemingly legitimate GitHub projects — like making Telegram bots for managing bitcoin wallets or tools for computer games.

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The Protocol: Beneath Bitcoin ETF Chaos, A Blockchain Drama

In this week's issue, we dive into the proposal that would have curtailed Ordinals inscriptions "NFTs on Bitcoin" traffic – were it not abruptly ended over the past week by a maintainer for the popular Bitcoin Core software. ALSO: Sam Kessler tries out the Polygon-based "Verify" tool – on Fox News stories.

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Bitcoin Developer's Proposal to Stop 'Spam' NFTs Gets Shut Down

Luke Dashjr's technical proposal sounded innocuous enough: to make the popular Bitcoin Core software "effective with newer datacarrying styles." In reality, the effort represented a sophisticated but controversial plan to block the suddenly popular "inscriptions" known as "NFTs on Bitcoin."

Image of some of Luke Dashjr's proposed code changes, from pull request #28408. (GitHub, modified by CoinDesk)

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Twitter Source Code Leaked, Sparks Search for Perpetrator

According to court filings, Twitter is on the hunt for the person who leaked the platform's proprietary source code that was published on GitHub until last week. "The Hash" panel discusses the implications for the social media network and beyond.

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Plagiarism, Fork or Simple Mistake? Shiba Inu Community Debates the Origin Story of Shibarium

SHIB is down 8% and millions have been unstaked over allegations that the Shibarium code was stolen.

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Crypto Custody Firm Copper Alerted to Security ‘Incident’ Over Christmas

Copper said some “concerning behavior” had been detected, and that a “machine-generated alert had been triggered.”

A Copper-branded keychain (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Cardano Network Recovers After Short-Lived Node Outage

The Cardano network had a brief outage on Sunday that was automatically fixed within minutes with no singular root cause determined as of writing time, developers wrote in a GitHub post. Cardano’s native ADA token is up nominally in the past 24 hours. "The Hash" panel discusses what this suggests about the resilience of Cardano.

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Bitcoin Gaming and Payments Company ZEBEDEE Launches New Open Source Bitcoin Initiative

The initiative has already cranked out four Lightning-related projects on GitHub.

André Neves, co-founder of Vinteum and ZEBEDEE, presents at TABConf 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (George Kaloudis/CoinDesk)

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Crypto-Mixing Service Tornado Cash Code Is Back on GitHub

The move by GitHub comes as Ethereum developers have called for platforms that host the mixer service to not ban Tornado Cash code.

No one knows exactly what the fallout from the Tornado Cash sanctions will look like. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

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Ethereum on Track for Testnet Merge in June

Ethereum’s Ropsten public testnet will undergo a “merge” next month ahead of a rollout on the main network, developer activity on GitHub shows. "The Hash" hosts discuss the latest in the world of Ethereum and what the upgrade could mean for the industry's second-largest blockchain protocol.

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