Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.

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Finance

Lazarus, un grupo de hackers norcoreano, apunta contra las empresas de criptomoneda japonesas

El grupo Lazarus ha estado atacando a empresas japonesas con links de phishing a través de emails y redes sociales.

Flags fly in Pyongyang, North Korea (Micha Brandli/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin tardó más de una hora en minar un bloque y retrasó miles de transacciones

Un intervalo de 85 minutos dejó más de 13.000 transacciones pendientes el lunes.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

Finance

Arbitrum Founder Dismisses Launch of First Mainnet zkEVM

Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfeder has said that a zkEVM is "not 12 days away from mainnet."

The co-founders of Offchain Labs, the firm behind Arbitrum. (Offchain Labs)

Finance

Bitcoin Fails to Produce 1 Block for Over an Hour

An 85-minute block interval left more than 13,000 transactions stuck in a pending state on Monday.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

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Finance

North Korean Hacker Group Lazarus Targets Japanese Crypto Firms

Lazarus Group has been targeting Japanese firms with phishing links via email and social media.

Flags fly in Pyongyang, North Korea (Micha Brandli/Unsplash)

Finance

'Baby Al Capone' Agrees to Pay $22M in AT&T SIM-Swap Case

Ellis Pinsky, the hacker, was the point person in a scheme to steal about $24 million in cryptocurrencies while he was still in high school.

Ellis Pinsky, aka "Baby Al Capoine, will pay $22 million in a SIM-swap case. (Andrey Metelev/Unsplash)

Markets

Las acciones cripto se desploman y bitcoin cae a US$18.100 tras la publicación de la inflación

Coinbase perdió 11%, mientras que MicroStrategy, Riot Blockchain y Marathon Digital cayeron en torno al 7%.

Las acciones de las criptomonedas se tambalean tras conocerse los datos del CPI. (M/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto Stocks Plunge as Bitcoin Slides to $18.1K on Inflation Data

Coinbase has tumbled 11%, while MicroStrategy, Riot Blockchain, Marathon Digital are all down in the area of 7%.

Las acciones de las criptomonedas se tambalean tras conocerse los datos del CPI. (M/Unsplash)

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Policy

UK Discussing Bill That Could See Trade Documents Stored Using Blockchain

The Electronic Trade Documents Bill was introduced in the House of Lords on Wednesday.

The U.K. Parliament. (Paul Silvan/Unsplash)

Finance

FASB Mulls Fair-Value Accounting for Crypto Holdings: Report

Fair-value accounting for crypto will encourage companies to put bitcoin on their balance sheet, according to Michael Saylor.

FASB described which crypto assets would be included in a forthcoming accounting rule. (Getty Images)