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$400K: Hacker Makes Off With Stellar Lumens in BlackWallet Theft. An unidentified thief has reportedly stolen more than $400,000 in Stellar lumens after hacking the digital wallet provider BlackWallet. According to cybersecurity researcher Kevin Beaumont, the attacker hijacked BlackWallet’s domain name system (DNS) server over the weekend, adding a piece of code which transferred any deposits of 20 or more lumens into another wallet. Bleeping Computer reported that the attacker secured nearly 670,000 lumens, worth about $444,000 at press time.
Housing or Dotcom: Which Bubble Does Cryptocurrency Mania Resemble? "It seems like the dotcom bubble all over again, or the housing bubble all over again." That's Robert Shiller, the Nobel Prize-winning Yale economist, quoted in Fortune magazine's cover story on bitcoin. So: dotcom or housing? Pick one, professor. Because there's a meaningful difference. Debt bubbles, like the one that overheated the U.S. housing market in the 2000s and ultimately sparked a global financial crisis, leave behind encumbrances. Tech bubbles, like the 1990s internet mania, leave behind infrastructure.
Road to Innovation? Truck Giant Penske Joins Blockchain Group.Global transport company Penske Logistics has become the latest company to join the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). The organization aims to spur blockchain development in the transport industry by creating applications for supply chain and logistics processes, asset tracking, and transaction ledgers, according to a press release. Penske became a corporate member of the alliance on Jan. 15.
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