Coinbase to Raise $2B in Convertible Notes as COIN Sags in Pre-Market Trading
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Coinbase to Raise $2B in Convertible Notes as COIN Sags in Pre-Market Trading - Decrypt
Centralized crypto exchange Coinbase is set to raise $2 billion in convertible senior notes, as COIN sagged in pre-market trading.
 Popular centralized exchange Coinbase announced on Tuesday its intention to raise $2 billion via convertible senior notes in a private offering. The funds will be used for “general corporate purposes,” which it says may include “acquisitions of other companies, products, or technologies.”
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Popular centralized exchange Coinbase announced on Tuesday its intention to raise $2 billion via convertible senior notes in a private offering. Th...
Golden July for Bitcoin Miners: $1.66 Billion Harvested
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Golden July for Bitcoin Miners: $1.66 Billion Harvested
Bitcoin miners hit a post-halving record. Sustainable rebound or temporary surge? Discover the stakes for August.
 July marks a turning point for Bitcoin mining: revenues explode to $1.66 billion, a post-halving high. This boom hides persistent tensions on profitability. Between rising fees and technical adjustments, the sector adapts. But can this momentum last amid the uncertainties looming over August?
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Golden July for Bitcoin Miners: $1.66 Billion Harvested \ stacker news ~bitcoin
July marks a turning point for Bitcoin mining: revenues explode to $1.66 billion, a post-halving high. This boom hides persistent tensions on profi...
Undectable Plague Malware Attacking Linux Servers to Gain Persistent SSH Access
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New Undectable Plague Malware Attacking Linux Servers to Gain Persistent SSH Access
A sophisticated Linux backdoor dubbed Plague has emerged as an unprecedented threat to enterprise security, evading detection across all major anti...
 A sophisticated Linux backdoor dubbed Plague has emerged as an unprecedented threat to enterprise security, evading detection across all major antivirus engines while establishing persistent SSH access through manipulation of core authentication mechanisms.
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Undectable Plague Malware Attacking Linux Servers to Gain Persistent SSH Access \ stacker news ~security
A sophisticated Linux backdoor dubbed Plague has emerged as an unprecedented threat to enterprise security, evading detection across all major anti...
China breaks RSA encryption with a quantum computer, threatening global security
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China breaks RSA encryption with a quantum computer, threatening global data security
Researchers in Shanghai break record by factoring 22-bit RSA key using quantum computing, threatening future cryptographic keys.
 If you logged onto your bank account this morning, the security protocols still seem secure – but things are changing quickly in the tech world. A team in China just showed that the math behind RSA encryption is starting to bend to the will of the quantum realm.
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China breaks RSA encryption with a quantum computer, threatening global security \ stacker news ~security
If you logged onto your bank account this morning, the security protocols still seem secure – but things are changing quickly in the tech world. ...
Archaeologists Found a Slab—With the Lord’s Prayer Carved in It
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Archaeologists Found a Slab in the Middle of Nowhere—With the Lord’s Prayer Carved in It
“It must have taken days and days of work.”
 In 2018, the toppling of a tree near the township of Wawa, Ontario, revealed a rectangular piece of bedrock (about four feet by nearly five feet) etched with 225 symbols alongside a depiction of a Viking longboat. Eventually, a local historian came across the odd finding—now known as the Wawa Runestone—and reported the find to the Ontario Centre for Archaeological Education (OCARE).
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Archaeologists Found a Slab—With the Lord’s Prayer Carved in It \ stacker news ~news
In 2018, the toppling of a tree near the township of Wawa, Ontario, revealed a rectangular piece of bedrock (about four feet by nearly five feet) e...