According to the hacker's ransom note, victims only have 10 days to pay up the 0.1 Bitcoin ($566) or else the hacker will make the stolen code public or use it for their own ends. But currently, the ...

Hackers are demanding bitcoin payments in exchange for code that they have extracted from GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories, through ransom notes that they have left behind for their victims.

Blackmailers have been wiping GitHub repositories and withholding code to extort Bitcoin from their victims. Over 390 respos have been affected, but so far, the attackers haven’t made enough to even ...

An icy mountain in Norway’s Svalbard – an all but inhabitable Arctic archipelago covered in glaciers and inhabited by polar bears – is an unlikely safe haven for cryptocurrency code, let alone a ...

On June 19, Chaincode developer John Newbery gathered a group of developers to examine a proposed change to bitcoin's code. Taking place via Internet Relay Chat (IRC), the topic was whether the change ...

Attacks to make Bitcoin change its issuance mechanism to proof of stake are futile. History has shown that this type of attack will not work. The below is a direct excerpt of Marty's Bent Issue #1186: ...

A Canadian software developer is fusing two of the most interesting open source projects of the 21st century: Git and bitcoin. Yurii Rashkovskii calls his project Gitchain, and it's now backed by ...

Many open source software projects run on donations. After all, open source is about giving code away for free, and without any revenue, you need some way of covering costs and motivating coders.

The controversial scaling proposal, SegWit2x, is progressing with their plans, following their timeline. Jeff Garzik, Bloq co-founder and SegWit2x lead developer, said in an email that the new code is ...

The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1186: “They’re trying to ‘change the code’ again.” Sign up for the newsletter here. We meet here in this dark corner of the Internet a little less ...