March 21, 2018
Child abuse imagery ‘found within Bitcoin’s blockchain’
shaoran2012© Dado Ruvic / Reuters Child abuse imagery has been detected in Bitcoin’s blockchain, according to a new study. The discovery potentially puts cryptocurrency users at risk, as anyone who downloads a blockchain could be held liable for illegal content. Researchers from RWTH Aachen University in Germany and the Data Protection Research Institute at Goethe University in Frankfurt found 1600 files, including texts and images, on blockchain. Among the data were instances of illegal pornography and serious privacy violations, the team says. The researchers extracted content from the blockchain, converted […]