Aaron van Wirdum

It appears the United States Postal Service is determined not to be the courier of choice for drug dealers any longer.Judging by a recent job listing sent to the information security community, the United States Postal Inspection...

It appears that the Venezuelan authorities have had enough of Bitcoin. Over the past two weeks, police in the Latin American country arrested eight Bitcoin miners in three different cities. While some of them were accused of cybercrime...

As the Dutch proverb goes: “The soup is not eaten as hot as it is served.” Meaning: The threat is often not carried through as thoroughly as initially presented.Bitcoin Magazine recently reported that the investigative arm of the Dutch...

Bitcoin Unlimited, one of the Bitcoin Core software forks introduced in late 2015, garnered much attention in recent months. The project gained hash power support from several new Bitcoin mining pools, including ViaBTC, GBMiners and...

Bitcoin Unlimited, one of the Bitcoin Core software forks introduced in late 2015, garnered much attention in recent months. The project gained hash power support from several new Bitcoin mining pools, including ViaBTC, GBMiners and...

It appears the global fight against Bitcoin money laundering has turned up a notch.Last week, more than 400 financial investigators from money laundering, cybercrime and financial intelligence units, as well as experts in asset recovery...

In the quest for a reliable proof of stake algorithm, IOHK CEO and Ethereum Classic developer Charles Hoskinson believes his company has made a breakthrough.Charles Hoskinson was one of the original founders and the initial CEO of...

Bitcoin Unlimited, one of the Bitcoin Core software forks introduced in late 2015, garnered much attention in recent months. The project gained hash power support from several new Bitcoin mining pools, including ViaBTC, GBMiners and...

Dutch public prosecutors and the tax inspection agency are ramping up their fight against bitcoin money laundering this year.According to research conducted by Dutch financial newspaper Het Financieel Dagblad (FD), at least three...

If the split between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic wasn’t definitive before, it is now. Ethereum Classic, the project born out of rejection of Ethereum’s reversal of The DAO, hard forked today. With that, Ethereum Classic has...

Lightning Labs, one of the prominent companies working to realize the lightning network, announced this week the alpha release of the open-source lightning daemon they've been spearheading: LND. While only compatible with Bitcoin’s...

The decentralized bitcoin and altcoin exchange Bitsquare has decided that it must rebrand or face a costly legal battle. Launched last year, Bitsquare is the first decentralized bitcoin and altcoin exchange of its kind. Instead of...

It is well-known that Bitcoin’s upcoming lightning network promises instant confirmations and low fees. What is not as well-known is that this highly anticipated scaling layer is actually not limited to Bitcoin. The very same...

In the quest for privacy and fungibility in Bitcoin, two researchers (from Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany and Indiana’s Purdue University) presented a promising privacy enhancement proposal last week. ValueShuffle, as the...

Bitcoin does not sleep, nor do its markets. Most exchanges run 24/7, day and night, even on weekends and holidays. This is one reason some day traders — the people who trade on the price swings per hour or even per minute — use trading...

Bitcoin, digital currency and blockchain technology experienced another explosive year in 2016. While bitcoin breached the all-time high in USD market cap, several new digital currencies claimed a place in the spotlights as well, while...

Bitcoin, digital currency and blockchain technology experienced another explosive year in 2016. While bitcoin breached the all-time high in USD market cap, several new digital currencies claimed a place in the spotlights as well, while...

Scalability has been a central issue within the Bitcoin community for well over a year now. Amongst the most promising innovations being developed are bidirectional payment channels. These can be extended to the Lightning Network,...

Centralization of mining pools is often considered one of the biggest problems Bitcoin faces. Only a handful of pools typically control well over half of all hash power on the network, and there is little indication this trend will...

Bitcoin is surging. The exchange rate of the leading digital currency broke the $800 mark earlier this week, to reach a two-year high of about $875 today. The all-time high of over $1,100 or even over $1,200 depending on the exchange,...

Publicism, a Dutch social enterprise established earlier this year, wants to leverage the potential of blockchain technology to guarantee press freedom. The initiative is backed by a €50,000 (~$52,000 U.S.) subsidy from the Dutch...