Two Bitcoin researchers from the Hebrew University in Israel tested a known attack vector on the Lightning Network.
What they found poses grave risks to the future of the layer 2 solution.

Key Takeaways:
- Only nodes that accept the attacker’s requests to open a new payment channel are vulnerable.
- Prior to the publication of their research paper, 95% of LN nodes were willing to open channels with unknown nodes.
- The research paper was shared with the main developers of three LN implementations before it was publicly available.

Read More: https://cryptobriefing.com/bitcoins-lightning-network-faces-existential-risk-flood-loot-attack/

Ethereum is experiencing high transaction volumes due to excessive mining pool activity.
https://cryptobriefing.com/ethereum-miners-burden-blockchain-small-transactions/

Here are nine unique ways to earn Bitcoin and altcoins this year.
https://cryptobriefing.com/stacking-sats-here-are-nine-ways-earn-bitcoin-2020

CoinMarketCap to scale invoicing and offer crypto payments to clients via a new partnership with Gilded.

The data aggregation platform, CoinMarketCap, has announced that they will be using Gilded, an American payments startup, to automate invoicing and offer clients crypto payment options.

Scaling CoinMarketCap with Gilded

Gilded offers interesting small- and medium-sized businesses the ability to leverage cryptocurrency payments.

The New Orleans-based team also allows companies to integrate with existing accounting software. These qualities have attracted one of the largest data aggregation platforms, CoinMarketCap.

In a press release shared with Crypto Briefing, the VP of Operations & Growth at CoinMarketCap, Spencer Yang, said:

“Gilded makes the integration of the sales process to the receipt of payment easier, enabling our team to focus on delivering value to customers instead of managing the payment process manually. We have more predictability and can leverage on Gilded’s initiatives on best practices as well.”

More: https://cryptobriefing.com/coinmarketcap-taps-gilded-scale-crypto-payments-and-invoicing/

Holland's Ministry of Finance has asked the Central Bank to help monitor the activity of the country's crypto industry. Not only is this supervision excessive, it's also very expensive.

Key Takeaways

-The AMLD5 has ushered in a new era of compliance in Europe.
-Already costly, the Dutch Ministry of Finance is attempting to tack on additional fees for crypto companies.
-These fees amount to more than credit card and trust companies. They could also kill many Bitcoin businesses in the country.

As each member of the European Union turns the fifth anti-money laundering directive (AMLD5) into law, some member states are going above and beyond what has been recommended. In Holland, for instance, the Ministry of Finance has added a series of abnormal and costly amendments for Dutch Bitcoin companies.

If passed, it could wipe out crypto innovation in the Netherlands.

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https://cryptobriefing.com/dutch-bitcoin-companies-face-millions-unusual-fees/

eports are still rolling on from the carnage of "Black Thursday" when markets around the world recorded record drops. For Bitcoin bulls, though, new data indicates that crashing markets were just another opportunity to buy the dip.

Key Takeaways
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- Bitcoin’s long-term investors continue to hoard over 40% of circulating supply, despite last month’s price crash.
- Hash rate for the network is back on the rise after a sizeable reduction in mining difficulty.
- Strong fundamentals don’t mean much when markets act on fear, so investors should remain cautious.

Data suggests that long-term Bitcoin bulls are still holding BTC despite crashing markets, both traditional and otherwise.

Bitcoin Bulls Show Their True Colors
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The economic principle of supply and demand determine Bitcoin’s price. Those who “HODL,” or hold BTC, take a portion of circulating supply off the market until they are willing to sell.

In the span of two days, Bitcoin crashed from just below $7,000 to $3,900. This was a result of multiple factors, the primary of which being failed oil talks between Russia and OPEC.

As a result, the S&P 500, to which Bitcoin is now highly correlated, fell by a whopping 9.5%. This is steep by stock market standards and triggered industry-wide circuit breakers to halt trading.

Now, as stocks look poised to launch a relief rally, Bitcoin is shaping up to do the same.

Data from CoinMetrics, published in this week’s Our Network newsletter, suggests that Bitcoin bulls were undeterred by Bitcoin’s price crash last month. On the contrary, HODLers have come out of this crash with a larger portion of the supply, indicating their ever-optimistic mindset.

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https://cryptobriefing.com/bitcoin-bulls-continue-hodl-optimism-returns/

Alethea is now offering so-called "no-cost sponsoring" by helping content creators on its platform earn interest in Dai.

Key Takeaways
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- Alethea AI is an artificial intelligence-based media platform.
- They allow contributors to stake Dai in "Meme Pools" and content creators earn interest based on contributors staking.
- The model is not unlike what rDai proposes, offering new possibilities for how interest can be distributed.

Alethea AI has merged tenants of crypto's DeFi movement with its artificial intelligent-based media platform. Content creators can now earn the stablecoin Dai for generating funny, entertaining memes.

Deep Fakes and Spicy Memes Meet DeFi
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Alethea AI is a platform that generates deep fakes of famous individuals.

These have ranged from British prime minister Boris Johnson to former Presidential candidate Andrew Yang. For the crypto community, the startup also created a deep fake of Binance CEO, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao.

The technology allows everyday content creators to map faces and voices onto any form of media. In the example using the Binance chief, an Alethea cropped CZ's face onto Hollywood action star, Bruce Lee. The project calls media like this "synthetic content."

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https://cryptobriefing.com/content-creators-earn-dai-synthetic-memes-alethea-ai/