A household water heater can now double as a bitcoin miner without replacing the tank. Heatbit’s new $899 Bitwater device swaps an ordinary heating element for 20 mining chips, turning electricity used for hot showers into potential bitcoin earnings.
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WIRED attempts what even the Swedish brand hasn’t: making a sonic monolith using scores of the cheapest Bluetooth speakers on the market. Can you have too much of a small thing?
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The incident follows the problems faced by Ledger and Trezor in the past few months.
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A malicious bitcoin wallet server could quietly swap a legitimate payment for a thief’s transaction, then wait for its owner to approve the theft. Electrum’s latest security patch closes that loophole after attackers exploited the flaw and…
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Grayscale is highlighting three crypto projects addressing artificial intelligence (AI) training data, hardware financing, and computing revenue. PEARL’s reported 580% three-month gain accompanies the firm’s assessment of blockchain applic…