New malware posing as a movie file from torrent website The Pirate Bay (TPB) can manipulate web pages and replace Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) addresses, computing magazine Bleeping Computer reported Jan. 12. The malware — originally thought to inject advertising on Google and in search results — in fact performs multiple actions, some of which were discovered by the publication’s own researcher Lawrence Abrams. “What appeared to be an ad-injector into the main Google search page turned out to be only the tip of the iceberg,” the researchers warned. The file containing malicious code poses as a movie file …

Cayman Islands-based blockchain startup Everipedia formally launched its peer-to-peer (P2P) encyclopedia August 9, a press release confirmed. Designed to be an “autonomous encyclopedia without the need for advertisements or donations,” the project uses the EOS network to function and will reward curators with its own token, dubbed “IQ.” Co-founder of Wikipedia turned Everipedia CIO Larry Sanger commented in the release that they are “elated to release [their] minimum viable network which allows users to vote on and create articles in a decentralized manner for the first time.” Talk of a blockchain-based “alternative” Wikipedia has long floated around cryptocurrency circles, with …

Decentralized structured data startup Dirt Protocol has secured investments from major crypto venture players to build a blockchain platform for reliable data, the company announced July 11. Contributors to the funding round included well-known crypto industry names such as Pantera Capital and Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group, along with Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam. A total of 15 venture partners and 11 angel investors participated, the startup reports. Dirt, which will use the $3 mln it raised to create its eponymous platform, seeks to deploy blockchain technology and a system of token staking to certify the trustworthiness of data and penalize …

This interview has been edited and condensed. ‘Jimmy Wales is good at failure.’ Who would think that? Apparently, Jimmy would, as this is the message he was spreading during his speech at the biggest crypto conference in Europe, BlockShow, calling failure ‘an essential part of innovation.’ But the importance of not giving up is also clear from his speech, as the co-founder of multilingual online encyclopedia shared that Wikipedia was not his first project, but the most successful one so far. Speaking in Berlin, the headliner of the event, announced his new project that everybody was waiting (I mean, not …

Cointelegraph speaks to Canadian Bitcoiner Kyle Kemper about the Social Wallet, a nonprofit that hopes to digitize every aspect of a physical wallet, money, services, and identity. Friendly finance Kyle Kemper: Since this started, so many people have chipped in here and there. Brooks Hunter has been doing videos for 15 years, and was behind that Vimeo video. My friend Paget is a genius creative advertiser, and created the “Turn IOU's into I<3U's" idea along with “friendly finance”. Judd Weiss, John McAfee's VP choice, is a brilliant sales and communicator, and him and I talked for hours in Bel Aire …