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'Bitcoin Bug' Exploited on Crypto Fork as Attacker Prints 235 Million Pigeoncoins

Using a major bug found and fixed on bitcoin last month, an attacker was able to print 235 million coins on "pigeoncoin."

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Two of Blockchain's Biggest Consortiums Just Joined Forces

The Hyperledger Project and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) have agreed to collaborate on bringing common standards to the blockchain space.

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Kill Switch Engage: Sia Cryptocurrency to Block Bitmain and Other Big Miners

After months of debate, Siacoin's founder is announcing a fork. That's good news for his other project, which will have the coin's only working ASICs.

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Up 80%: XRP's September Wasn't Just Bullish, It Was Record-Setting

XRP broke records in September and was the best performer out of the world's 25 largest cryptocurrencies.

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This Meme Marketplace Uses Dummy Tokens to Draw Users in a Bear Market

Even before its protocol is live, District0x's Meme Factory has engaged its community in blockchain governance with a meme contest and fake tokens.

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One Musician's Creative Solution to Drive ASICs Off Monero

Howard Chu, a monero core dev and musician, has created an algorithm that he thinks will keep ASICS at bay on the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency.

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Tech Giant GMO Wants to Help You Mine Zcash – For a Cut

Japanese IT giant GMO Internet has made another move into the cryptocurrency space with the launch of a GPU mining client for zcash.

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The Crowd Machine Crypto Token Theft: What We Know So Far

A crypto startup aiming to disrupt AWS has suffered a massive token theft. While few details are available, here's what we know and don't know.

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Early Execs Leave Block.one, the Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Startup Behind EOS

As Block.one was raising $4 billion from Silicon Valley and Wall Street, a group of executives decided to quit and build a bigger, better blockchain.

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When Blockchains Go Down: Why Crypto Outages Are on the Rise

It used to be that downtime was unheard of on blockchain networks. As new protocols and new trade-offs emerge, that’s no longer the case.

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