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View More NewsThe breach has impacted 39,798 customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025 and April 11, 2026.SafePal stressed that the core security of its wallets remains intact, adding that users’ seed phrases, private keys, bank passwords, bank account information, payment card numbers, and government-issued IDs were not affected.However, SafePal said users who have shared their private keys or seed phrases via a phishing email, phone call, or letter should treat their wallet as compromised and transfer their assets to a new wallet.How SafePal is respondingThe company said it had patched the vulnerability and introduced additional security measures in response. SafePal…
Similar systems, however, have been around the blockchain space for years in one form or another. Early adopters may recall the reams of banks that joined R3’s consortium effort back in 2016, for example, or the many enterprise players that flocked to the Linux-affiliated Hyperledger ecosystem. R3 didn’t make it to the end of the year before the big banks like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Santander withdrew from the system.“It’s like we’re having consortium chain 2.0,” said Raman in an interview. “This is going to end up being a race to the bottom for consortium chains. You’re going to…
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Jason Arday—fantasist, fabulist, fraud, and (until recently) Professorial Chair in the Sociology of Education at Cambridge University—sold a bolus of lies to students, faculty, and administrators, and they gobbled it up like a dish of ice cream on the hottest sunniest driest summer day in English memory. Months earlier, Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher at the same university, was accused by students of racism. Would nobody rid Cambridge of this turbulent scholar? Rid of him it got—through suitably tortuous means.That you and I know about Jason and his Argo of lies owes to Nathan Cofnas, who broke the story by publishing…
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Some excerpts from the long Turpin v. Charlotte Latin Schools, Inc., decided today by the N.C. Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Richard…
A federal bank regulator has granted World Liberty Trust Co. a conditional bank charter, it announced Friday.The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency,…
Gen Z traders on Binance are allocating a growing share of their equity activity to exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with the products accounting for 25%…
In brief A reported breach of France’s tax authority exposed data tied to 678,437 people and businesses. The records allegedly include income figures, addresses,…
Yesterday’s Seventh Circuit opinion in McDonald v. Trustees of Indiana Univ. held that public university professors lacked standing to challenge a state law that…
The moves followed CoinDesk’s report late Thursday that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was set to further delay its anticipated “innovation exemption,” which…
UK Reform leader Nigel Farage will face an investigation that had been briefly paused following his resignation from Parliament after winning a by-election on…
In brief Galaxy Research now puts the Coldcard exploit’s confirmed haul above 1,778 BTC (about $112 million), with a suspected fourth wave that would…
from the judicial-citation-laundering dept You may have seen news of the recent Fifth Circuit decision, with an opinion written by Judge Andrew Oldham, overturning…
“Imagine taking a day off from work in a future without capitalism,” reads the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) website. “You have no debt. You…
São Paulo, August 14, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court has decided personal allegations are a…
A $116 million hardware wallet exploit has reopened one of Bitcoin’s oldest debates: Is holding your own keys worth the risk? Days later, US…