Blockchain browser formerly known as ‘Braver’, which originally forked from the open-source Brave browser, rebranded itself to ‘Bold Browser’ earlier today citing legal threats from a ‘certain party.’ Anti-adware fork Braver Browser launched in June following reports of Brave auto-filling the company’s affiliate link into searches for certain crypto exchanges like Binance and Coinbase. Announcing the project in a now-deleted tweet on June 6, the Braver team said it had removed Brave's referral link injection, adding that the full release was going to delete “all adware”, including the Basic Attention Token (BAT) — in-house ERC-20 utility tokens that are awarded …

Crypto asset Dogecoin (DOGE) has leaped 18% in 24 hours and almost 20% over the past week. The price action is happening against the backdrop of a viral TikTok challenge that encourages users to pump the coin. The most popular video under the hashtag #DogecoinTiktokChallange has amassed nearly half a million views so far. It was posted five days ago by user jamezg97 and effectively describes what seems to be a pump scheme: "Let's all get rich! Dogecoin is practically worthless. There are 800 million TikTok users. Invest just $25. Once the stock hits $1, you'll have 10 grand [$10,000]. …

As Pride month comes to an end, Cointelegraph hosts an online meetup to discuss LGBTQ+ issues in the crypto and blockchain community. Called “LGBTQ+ and Blockchain: Community-Powered Tech and Tech-Powered Community,” the new session of Cointelegraph Talks features community members like LGBTTech’s Christopher Wood and UNAIDS’ Eric Lamontagne. Other speakers include Hornet’s Christof Wittig, BitBull Capital CEO Joe DiPasquale, LGBT Foundation’s Sean Howell, Muckr AI’s Susan Oh, and Fintech.TV’s Dr Jane Thomason. Hosted by Cointelegraph's opinion editor, Max Yakubowski, the upcoming session is less than an hour away, scheduled to start at 1 pm EST and ending at 2 pm …

Roger Ver, executive chairman of major cryptocurrency website, Bitcoin.com, now says that Bitcoin.com’s forum closure announcement was premature. Yesterday, Bitcoin.com’s forum abruptly dropped an alert about the upcoming closure of the forum on July 23. Posted by a forum administrator, the announcement did not specify the reasons behind the action. Subsequently, Bitcoin.com’s exec, Ver, said that the forum will soon make a reversal announcement. In a June 26 email to Cointelegraph, Ver wrote: “This caught me by surprise too, and I think the announcement was premature. I suspect there will be a reversal announcement soon.” Despite Ver’s response, the closure …

The Bitcoin.com forum, one of the most popular forums in the crypto community, has abruptly announced closure. A place for the heated debates and thoughtful cryptocurrency-related discussions, Bitcoin.com’s forum will terminate its services on July 23, 2020. The news was reported by the forum’s administrator in a thread posted on June 24. In the post, the forum admin provided few details about the upcoming closure. The post does not specify the reasons behind the action. Bitcoin.com’s forum is associated with the Bitcoin.com website — one of the oldest and biggest cryptocurrency-related web portals in the world. Backed by early Bitcoin …

Known for his social media-involved leadership of crypto exchange giant Binance, CEO Changpeng Zhao, or CZ, said he disabled Twitter comments on his posts to weed out the scammers. "To better respond and engage," CZ told Cointelegraph he partially disabled the ability for the public to comment on his tweets. "This is a new feature from Twitter," CZ said on June 11. "It seems it’s only rolled out to a small percentage of people." Social media holds crucial in crypto As an industry based primarily on digital technologies, much of the crypto and blockchain community interacts daily on various social …

After releasing details of its testnet competition several days ago, Filecoin business development staff Angie Maguire said the project's mainnet is on pace for this summer. "The Filecoin mainnet is on track for our launch window July 20 to Aug. 20," Maguire told Cointelegraph via email correspondence on June 10, pointing back to the project's public roadmap. Filecoin will run a testnet competition, starting soon Filecoin, a blockchain-based data storage project, announced its upcoming testnet competition on June 10, prior to its upcoming mainnet launch. Meant to work out the kinks in the network prior to mainnet launch, the testnet …

Telegram’s terminated blockchain project, Telegram Open Network, or TON, keeps spawning new community-led TON networks. While there are at least two global TON-based initiatives so far, namely Free TON and NewTON, the Chinese TON Community has opted to launch their own TON network. In a May 29 blog post, the Chinese TON Community voiced its intention to launch a separate TON-based network. The new effort comes in response to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov officially shutting down the firm’s involvement in the project, the post notes. Blockchain testnet is a first step The community plans to launch their own TON blockchain …

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has described the virtual currency ecosystem firmly sitting in “crypto spring,” emphasizing the strength of development surrounding meaningful applications for blockchain technology. In an interview with Yahoo Finance published May 23, Ohanian stated: “We really do see a crypto spring right now in terms of top-tier engineers, product developers, designers, building real solutions on top of the blockchain.” “We’re seeing really top-tier talent building on this infrastructure [...] and that to me is the most interesting part” he added. Crypto is here to stay Ohanian revealed that he has held “a percentage of [his] wealth in …

As part of the long-running Steem drama, the Steem (STEEM) network experienced another fork today. Particularly designed to tackle “constant attack from malicious accounts,” the new hard fork doesn’t appear to have been entirely successful. Code named “New Steem” the hard fork 0.23 had two primary aims. The first was to reduce the power down period from 13 weeks to four weeks. The second was to seize 23.6 million in STEEM tokens from Steem accounts and stakeholders associated with the Steem blockchain’s rebel and fork, the Hive blockchain. The latter goal has apparently failed as the seized funds were ‘rescued’ …

Within days of launching on the Rinkeby testnet, Reddit’s Ethereum-based Community Points rewards system has seen more than 10,000 addresses created. Reddit’s points were rolled out across two subreddit communities pertaining to the topics of the popular video game Fortnite (r/fortniteBR) and cryptocurrency (r/cryptocurrency) from May 13 to May 15. Perhaps surprisingly, over 80% of wallets created on the testnet so far represent the Fortnite community. Reddit "Community Points" wallets tag five figures Within three days of completing its rollout, over 10,000 users have signed up to receive Reddit’s Community Points as a reward for their activity on the popular …

A proposal for the creation of a specialized decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, has garnered debate within the Ethereum (ETH) community. The focus of this DAO would be to refund users who have mistakenly sent their funds to a wrong address, provided that the address contains less than three incorrect characters. The proposal gathered steam in response to a user requesting help from the r/Ethfinance community on Reddit after claiming to have lost 40 Ether as a result of a single mistaken alphanumeric character entered into the receiving wallet’s address. ETH user sends 40 Ether to wrong address On May …