@sakhavi@aoir.socialOne of the things about being a luddite technophile is being unsure how out of step with the majority I am. With #blockchain / #crypto , I saw evidence pretty frequently that even though I might think it was bs, the "person on the street" was pretty impressed. With
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Wall Street learned to love the blockchain, as US regulators accept tokenized assets and other tech can offer significant advantages in speed and efficiency (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7600731b-4f7f-4d38-a478-3196c565a880
@newstik@social.heise.deThe unique selling point of the #blockchain in public lore is, that you can not change anything once it is written to the blockchain. But of course you can.
https://www.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/116881262997934936
It’s just wild to me how quickly and completely we’ve gone from “everything in the future will be blockchain” to blockchain being •completely• absent from the public eye except as (1) a Trump grift and (2) money launderers buying politicians.
Not wild to me that this happened. Just wild how swift and decisive it was.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDigital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raised $355M, including $100M from a16z crypto (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/andreessen-horowitz-ba…
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@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizzaWanna impress the interviewer when looking for a new job?
Just tell them you are adept in a very popular blockchain technology that allows you to efficiently distribute your code changes among your colleagues...
Yes... It's Git.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialBlockchain technologie wordt vaak afgedaan als hype en alleen maar gebakken lucht, tegelijk zijn de afgeleide cryptocurrencies al geruime tijd een succes, alleen is het niet altijd voor goede doeleinden.
"Via cryptovaluta weet Poetin nog steeds sancties te omzeilen" https://nos.nl/l/2627229
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… @… I suspect this "innovation exemption" is all about crypto and blockchain.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBNY, the world's top bank for safeguarding assets, plans to use blockchain tech for its transfer agency record-keeping systems, which service $8.6T in assets (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7b1197a5-e59a-4beb-ab83-e800e6ebc527
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaData breach, il Garante privacy sanziona #WindTre per 1,7 milioni di euro
Riscontrate gravi carenze nella sicurezza dei sistemi aziendali, che hanno determinato due accessi abusivi e l’esfiltrazione dei dati personali di oltre 365mila clienti. Per 41.359 di essi, l’esfiltrazione ha riguardato anche le informazioni relative ai metodi di pagamento utilizzati, come il bollettino postale, …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialStory Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/06/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialBlockchain wordt consequent aangeduid als hype en gebakken lucht, dat is/was het ook voor een deel, tegelijk bestaan cryptocurrencies nog en heeft de rijkste Nederlander zijn geld ermee verdiend.
'Mysterieuze cryptomiljardair blijkt rijkste Nederlander ooit – maar heeft bij Tether niets meer te zeggen'
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAustralian payments startup Airwallex raised $320M led by Lee Fixel's Addition at an $11B valuation, and is incubating blockchain payments startup Metal (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe summer is sadly coming to a close, but cybersecurity will stay hot so check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Trump launches Texas test bed for nationwide water cyber defense,
--Anthropic pauses AI work after rogue agent actions,
--Attackers probe AI evaluator METR,
--Cronos halts blockchain after $75m attack,
--Avici hacker launders stolen funds through Tornado Cash,
--Lazarus moves $30m through Trump-favorited Hyperliquid,
--PaperCut zero-days fuel data theft attacks,
--Japan revives dedicated cyber policy division,
--Chinese hackers turn Cisco routers into spy platforms,
--Attackers spray AWS root accounts at 150 organizations,
--BREEZE COMET uses AI to raid Brazilian banks,
--White House mandates Login.gov across federal services,
--Unitree robot flaws enable remote takeover,
--Florida orders Flock cameras off state roads,
--Outlook outage disrupts email worldwide,
--Clothing confuses AI surveillance cameras,
--1Password funds developer tied to ethnic cleansing advocacy
https://www.metacurity.com/trump-launches-texas-test-bed-for-nationwide-water-cyber-defense/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNew York-based crypto analytics startup Allium raised a $40M Series B led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and others (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/23/allium-series-b-amplify-partners-crypto-analytics-st…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCitigroup launches a blockchain-based platform for wealthy and institutional clients to trade tokenized shares of private firms, initially for foreign investors (Gina Heeb/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/citigr
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGauntlet, which helps institutions and crypto companies allocate their digital assets, raised a $125M Series C from Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/09/gauntlet-defi-vault-risk-c…
@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchange @metacurity@infosec.exchangeEvery day is a heavy cyber news day, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Autonomous AI agents hacked the Taiwan government in a cyber first
--Suisun City cyberattack recovery could take months,
--Microsoft patches 400 flaws, three zero-days,
--$100 device can hijack Boeing 737 systems,
--Hackers hijack AnMed Facebook page with ransom demands,
--German lawmaker urges cyber strikes on Russian drone factories,
--Cyberattacks on South Korean agency surge twelvefold,
--Data breach fallout hammers KT profits,
--Uber Freight probes breach after hackers claim 1 million files,
--Wesco probes cloud breach after data theft claim,
--DeadLock ransomware turns to blockchain for resilience,
--LawCare warns hackers likely stole sensitive database,
--Kimwolf botnet disguises DDoS attacks as Chrome traffic,
--Chrome blocks 7b unwanted notifications a day,
--NIST looks to remake vulnerability reporting for AI age,
--US lifts TikTok ban on government devices,
--New Microsoft Defender zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges,
--Signal adds automatic protection against chat interception,
--Lazarus weaponizes Windows zero-day in fake job campaign,
--Rapid7 cuts 12 percent of workforce,
--Industrial ransomware attacks jump 12 percent,
--AI hacking boom fuels cybersecurity spending,
--K-12 cyber defenders join national ISAC network,
--Health obsessives feed intimate data to AI,
--McDonald’s built a 515-page dossier on a customer
https://www.metacurity.com/autonomous-ai-agents-hacked-the-taiwan-government-in-a-cyber-first/
