Academic Research

Sophisticated actors are taking from amateur investors in bitcoin derivatives trading, according to Carnegie Mellon researchers using data from BitMEX.

By Damanick Dantes

May 5, 2021 at 5:39 p.m. UTC

May 5, 2021

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Alexandra Elbakyan, the woman behind SciHub, at a conference at Harvard in 2010.

Markets

Censorship

Blackballed by PayPal, Scientific-Paper Pirate Takes Bitcoin Donations

Bitcoin has been used by outlaws of all sorts, but this time the outlaw is a young scientist from Kazakhstan breaking through the paywalls of academic journals.

By Anna Baydakova

Jun 22, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. UTC

Jun 22, 2020

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Tech

Research

Free Transactions Invite Systemic Attacks on Blockchains, Researchers Find

EOS, Tezos and XRP have not seen high levels of intended use, according to a new report from researchers in London.

By Brady Dale

Jun 11, 2020 at 10:12 p.m. UTC

Jun 11, 2020

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Tech

Privacy

'Careless' Users Are Ruining Ethereum's Privacy: Paper

Ethereum's account-based model makes it more susceptible to surveillance than some other protocols and users aren't helping, a research paper argues.

By Paddy Baker

Jun 4, 2020 at 9:08 a.m. UTC

Jun 4, 2020

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FLASH: Balances on the Lightning Network can be revealed by relatively straightforward cyberattacks, researchers say. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Tech

Privacy

Researchers Surface Privacy Vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments

Privacy holes in the Lightning Network, a bitcoin transaction settlement layer, are leaking payment information.

By Ada Hui

Apr 21, 2020 at 8:30 a.m. UTC

Apr 21, 2020

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RESEARCH ME: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to learn more about "black swan" events that would sink the U.S. dollar. (Image via Shutterstock)

Policy

Academic research

US Intelligence Officials Are Funding Research on Dollar-Crushing 'Black Swan' Events

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to sponsor a post-doc researcher to study what would happen if the U.S. dollar lost its status as the world’s reserve currency.

By Nate DiCamillo

Feb 14, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. UTC

Feb 14, 2020

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