How Secure is Blockchain?
If you have been hearing a lot about topics such as cryptocurrency and blockchain, you might have wondered what they are, what is the purpose, and whether or not blockchain is secure?
Category: Blockchain & Bitcoin
Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet: a distributed, worldwide, decentralized digital money. Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company, or bank in charge of Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Mining Virus
Some are just waking up to the fact that whenever there is a “new technology kid in town” that there will be cyber criminals to try to take advantage. The Bitcoin mining virus has been around for a number of years, but due to the intensity of the increase in popularity, it is just becoming […]
Bitcoin Wallet Hacking: The Latest Attacks and How to Protect Yourself
Wherever there is money, it is almost a given that there will be hacking attempts to steal it and one of the most popular methods of keeping your transactions secret has been cryptocurrency. This is a type of ‘virtual money’ that can be spent anywhere in the world and there are a number of cryptocurrency […]
South Africa received first Bitcoin vending machine
Wikipedia defines Bitcoin as “Bitcoin is a payment system invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, who published the invention in 2008 and released it as open-source software in 2009.The system is peer-to-peer: users can transact directly without needing an intermediary.” “Rolf Deppe and his business partner, Monre Botes decided that they wanted to bring a Bitcoin vending […]