For a long time, the relationship between early “Internet money” pioneers of PayPal and Bitcoin in particular - and the wider cryptocurrency landscape in general - has not always been an easy one.
PayPal originally set out with the vision of enabling fast, borderless digital payments on the internet at a time when online commerce was still in its infancy....
Marketed as one of the world’s top 5 crypto exchanges and operating in over 150 countries, Bitget has attracted significant attention from global users. However, many people still question whether these claims are accurate. Is Bitget legal in Vietnam? And what should users be aware of when trading on this platform to avoid unnecessary losses?
In the following article, BitcoinVN...
When BitcoinVN launched as Vietnam’s first Bitcoin exchange in early 2014, the industry looked very different.
The idea of stablecoins had barely come into existence, Bitcoin dominated the landscape, Litecoin lingered in the background, Dogecoin was only a few months old, and Ethereum existed only as an early idea and a draft whitepaper.
Since then, our model has expanded from a...
As digital asset usage continues to grow, regulators worldwide are pushing for stronger transparency requirements. The Travel Rule - the FATF’s Recommendation 16 extended to virtual assets - obliges Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) to obtain, hold, and transmit identifying information about both the sender and the recipient whenever digital assets move between regulated entities.
This article explains what the...
For years, detractors of Bitcoin often said it was a solution in search of a problem, arguing that Bitcoin was trying to fix something that didn't exist. But in reality, the problem has always been there. It’s just that people have become so accustomed to it that they fail to realize the system they trust is frequently... betraying itself.
I...
You could lose your entire wallet balance from a single copy-paste action. To learn how to identify, prevent, and handle this threat, continue reading this article to protect your assets right now.
What is a Clipboard Hijacker?
Clipboard Hijackers (aka address-swappers) are malware that watches your clipboard and replaces cryptocurrency addresses with those from an attacker’s wallet. This family of malware...
This year flew by in a haste, didn’t it?
It feels like we’ve only just come out of the Tết holidays - and suddenly the Christmas season is upon us once again.
With that, we’re glad to announce that BitcoinVN will once again participate in the annual Satoshi Christmas Flea Market in Saigon - joining and supporting the local Bitcoin community...
First things first:
Yes, gold-backed tokens are not a replacement for Bitcoin.
You must trust the issuer (we’ll get to that later) not to run fractional-reserve games.
You must trust that your gold-backed token - essentially an IOU - won’t suddenly lose redeemability or get frozen or invalidated.
“You don’t own what you can’t control.”
Everyone knows this by now - or should.
With these...
The Lightning Network is considered one of the most widely adopted solutions to Bitcoin's scalability problem, allowing millions of fast, low-fee transactions to be processed without needing confirmation on the main chain.
However, using the Lightning Network remains quite complex for most users.
In the original article posted on the Breez Technology blog, Roy Sheinfeld - cofounder of Breez, introduced a...
With increasing amounts of wealth migrating onto decentralized ledgers come massive gains in efficiency - but also new significant risks which require thoughtful mitigation.
Bitcoin protects savings from a vast mass of legacy-system attack vectors. But it also introduces new ones. The risks aren’t rooted in Bitcoin’s code, but in human behavior: lapses in attention, overconfidence, and operational sloppiness. Most...
