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Telegram Offers $200k in Bitcoin for Cracking its Encrypted Messages

Telegram is offering a $200,000 prize in bitcoin to anyone who manages to beat its encryption protocol.

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Merge Avoidance: Privacy Enhancing Techniques in the Bitcoin Protocol

Bitcoin Core Developer Mike Hearn discusses privacy leaks and a new technique that he has named 'merge avoidance'.

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Bitcoin Talk Hacked Again, Members Urged to Change Passwords

BitcoinTalk was recently hacked, and the administrators have posted a note regarding the possibility of compromised passwords.

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Directory.io Prank Proves Bitcoin Protocol's Strength

A website that listed bitcoin private keys with corresponding public addresses has been revealed as a prank.

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Polish Bitcoin Exchange Bidextreme.pl Hacked, Bitcoin and Litecoin Wallets Emptied

Polish bitcoin exchange Bidextreme.pl has been hacked and its customers’ bitcoin and litecoin wallets emptied.

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Hackers steal $1.2 Million of bitcoins from Inputs.io, a supposedly secure wallet service

Approximately $1.2m worth of bitcoin have been stolen from a wallet service intended to be high-security.

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Crowdcurity brings crowdsourced hacker testing to bitcoin

Crowdcurity wants to reward those who find security holes in bitcoin sites.

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BitcoinTalk forum hacked by 'The Hole Seekers'

Popular digital currency forum BitcoinTalk has been hacked by a group calling themselves "The Hole Seekers".

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Raspberry Pi-powered briefcase converts loose change into bitcoin

The Defcon hacker conference saw bitcoin being sold via a briefcase, where loose change was exchanged for QR codes.

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Here come the geeks, and this time they're rich

Bitcoin is due to change the face of finance, but could have interesting social effects too, according to a leading security researcher.

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