Paypal

The news that PayPal is giving more than 300 million users access to bitcoin is bullish. But it’s not empowering them to truly control their funds.

PayPal will allow users to buy, sell and hold bitcoin directly from their PayPal accounts, a significant boon for adoption.

This contains 50 links to most of the best quality content that was uploaded to Reddit for this month. Most links come from the popular r/bitcoin, but we also retrieved posts from other one as well such as r/BitcoinMining.

PayPal has been awarded a patent for a technique that can help with the timely detection and reduction of ransomware attacks, claiming that attackers frequently "demand that the user pay him some amount of anonymous crypto-currency (e.g., BitCoin) in order to have the user's files decrypted so that they are accessible again."

The software firm DataLight has predicted that Bitcoin will become the world’s top payment system within the next decade if it maintains its current growth rate.

The FIO Protocol will support a range of features including cross-chain counterparty metadata, enabling transaction statuses within crypto wallets, the provision of a memorable, single cross-chain wallet name and more.

Chaum believes that Elixxir could eventually grow into much more than just a cryptocurrency by becoming a fixture in online security frameworks.

Origin’s latest offering is positioning itself to challenge encrypted messaging giant Telegram, which, while not decentralized, is widely used within the cryptocurrency community.

On August 9, 2018, the Origin team hosted an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit to discuss their project.

In a newly published paper on the use of bitcoin for illegal activity, researchers from the University of Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney and...