US: Square’s Cash App Expands Bitcoin Trading to All 50 States
Mobile payment company ‘s Cash App has recently rolled out (BTC) trading in all 50 states, the firm confirmed in a August 13.
According to the company’s announcement, Cash App users are now able to conduct bitcoin buy and sell transactions in all the states.
Square first bitcoin trading on its app for a fraction of users back in November 2017.
On Jan. 31, 2018, bitcoin trading on Square’s Cash App for almost all of its users, excluding those in New York, Georgia, Hawaii, and Wyoming.
Co-founded nine years ago by CEO, Jack Dorsey, the financial services company has reportedly some losses as a result of introducing bitcoin trading, which the company, however, considers “insignificant.”
Square a to operate in New York in June, and two months later announced it had more than $70 million in revenue from crypto in Q2, compared to $34 million in Q1.
Earlier this year, Dorsey that the Internet will “ultimately” adopt a “single currency,” which he believes will be bitcoin.
bitcoin is currently trading around at press time, down almost 4 percent on the day, amidst a wider .
At 11:30 a.m. (CDT) on July 19, 2017, a hacker managed to 153,000 ETH (approximately $32 million at the time) from three Ethereum wallets by exploiting a vulnerability within the wallets’ multi-signature verification. The affected wallets include the ones using Parity client version 1.5 or later.
According to a by Project Lead Manuel Aráoz, the three multisig wallets first targeted by the hack were using Parity client version 1.5 or later, and included Edgeless Casino, Swarm City and Æternity Blockchain. However, also reported a loss totaling 3,916 ETH. According to , Blocktix.io was hit by a second attacker who exploited the same vulnerability.
A Swarm City revealed that a group of white hat hackers managed to secure the remaining funds from the affected ETH wallets using the same exploit. The swift response of the white hat hackers allowed them to secure the funds of other vulnerable projects. Unfortunately, funds in the wallets of Edgeless Casino, Swarm City and Æternity Blockchain are completely lost, though the “white hat response team” managed to secure 6,272 of 10,188 ETH at Blocktix.io.
The White Hat Group announced on that they will create “another multisig for you [the affected users] that has the same settings as your [the users’] old multisig but with the vulnerability removed and we will return your [the users’] funds to you [the users].” The response team warned the Reddit community to be careful with donation addresses below their post since there are “a lot of phishers in the community right now.”
On July 19, Parity Technologies published a stating there was a vulnerability connected to Parity Wallets. The users affected by the vulnerability included “any user with assets in a multi-sig wallet created in Parity Wallet prior to 19/07/17 23:14:56 CEST.” The company urged users to move all assets from the multisig wallets to a secure address. Wallets seemingly unaffected by the breach include Geth, MyEtherWallet and single-user accounts created on Parity.
Parity updated its post as of today stating that future versions of their multisig wallets are secure:
“Future multi-sig wallets created by versions of Parity are secure (Fix in the code is https://github.com/paritytech/parity/pull/6103 and the newly registered code is ).”
Swarm City also information for users affected by the hack:
“If you do have funds in the multisig contract: carefully move your funds to a new account ASAP. If your funds are no longer in your multisig, please check the Black hat and White hat addresses. They might have been saved by the White hat group.”
To check on funds held by either the black hat or the white hat hackers, see the ETH addresses below:
White Hat Group’s wallet: First hacker’s wallet: Second attacker’s wallet:
The hacks have not only affected the wallets of the victims but also the overall price of ether. According to Coin Market Cap’s , the price experienced a 15 percent drop from $234.94 (at 0:04, July 19) to $199.70 at the end of the day. However, ETH has since recovered to around $227 today.
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