Tether confirmed its relationship with auditor has dissolved, leading some to question the legitimacy of Tether's 100% USD backed claims. I found the following two videos from the community particularly helpful; (1) crypto investor (2) boxmining
Cases of browser 'cryptojacking' are on the rise, with Youtube the latest victim. This is where malware embedded in advertisements are able to hijack the viewers CPU power to mine crypto. This follows news late last year that the pirate bay had decided to add a javascript cryptocurrency miner to its website in substitute for advertisements.
NEM development team have created an automated tagging system to ensure the $523m worth of XEM stolen from coincheck are traced and labelled as tainted, making it difficult for the hackers to trade the funds on any regulated exchanges.
The National Instiute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an overview of blockchain technology. This has caused some controversy in the community due to it's misrepresentation that the altcoin Bitcoin Cash is the original Bitcoin. This boils down to a misunderstanding of forks. Bitcoin Cash was a hardfork that is not backwards compatitble with anything before August 2017. Whereas the Bitcoin that we know today includes a backwards compatitble upgrade called Segwit, making it a soft fork.
