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How $323M in crypto was stolen from a blockchain bridge called Wormhole

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) This is a story about how a simple software bug allowed the fourth-biggest cryptocurrency theft ever. Hackers stole more than $323 million in cryptocurrency by exploiting a vulnerability in Wormhole, a Web-based service that allows inter-blockchain transactions. Wormhole lets people move digital coins tied to one blockchain over to a different blockchain; […]

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Meta’s cryptocurrency ploy all but dead with Libra/Diem seeking to sell assets

Enlarge / With an image of Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Jerome Powell on a screen in the background, Facebook/Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on October 23, 2019, in Washington, DC. (credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) After years of effort, Meta’s cryptocurrency initiative has collapsed under the weight of […]