Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Steep Sell-Off, Pornhub’s Crypto Payments, Twitter’s Latest Hack
The company has accepted verge (XVG) since 2018, and has recently added support for dollar-linked for taxes
People and businesses in the Swiss canton of Zug, home to “Crypto Valley,” will be able to pay their taxes in bitcoin (BTC) or ether (ETH) beginning next February. Derivatives exchange Opium has introduced CDS for the dollar-linked stablecoin tether (USDT), providing insurance to buyers in case Tether, the issuer of the stablecoin, defaults.
Opium’s CDS product finally lets the controversial crypto’s critics and defenders “put their money where their mouths are,” CoinDesk’s Will Foxley reports. Tech pod
Hypothetical attack
A recently disclosed vulnerability in popular Trezor and KeepKey hardware wallets would have allowed attackers to hold users’ cryptocurrency for ransom without going anywhere near the device, CoinDesk’s Colin Harper reports.
