{"id":96168,"date":"2019-09-13T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/researchers-have-issued-a-serious-bitcoin-security-warning"},"modified":"2019-09-13T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:02:15","slug":"researchers-have-issued-a-serious-bitcoin-security-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/researchers-have-issued-a-serious-bitcoin-security-warning","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Have Issued A Serious Bitcoin Security Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-have-issued-a-serious-bitcoin-security-warning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/09\/10\/bitcoin-blow-as-coinbase-and-ripple-crash-out-of-us-startup-top-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">cryptocurrency adoption has failed to live up to expectations over recent years<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/09\/07\/serious-malware-warning-over-bitcoin-blockchain\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">fears around scams, fraud, and theft have not helped<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/08\/23\/bitcoins-bull-run-could-be-just-getting-startedheres-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">The bitcoin price<\/a>, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/06\/26\/bitcoin-is-this-time-different\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">its epic 2017 bull run<\/a>, slumped last year\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/09\/03\/as-bitcoin-rebounds-ripple-is-tearing-itself-apart-over-xrp\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">though has rebounded in 2019, climbing back above $10,000 per bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers have warned a staggering four out of the first five results returned when asking Google for a \u201cbitcoin qr generator\u201d led to scam websites\u2013potentially furthering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/09\/07\/serious-malware-warning-over-bitcoin-blockchain\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">negative public perception around bitcoin and cryptocurrency<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin and cryptocurrency adoption has failed to live up to expectations over recent years and fears around scams, fraud, and theft have not helped. The bitcoin price, after its epic 2017 bull run, slumped last year\u2013 though has rebounded in 2019, climbing back above $10,000 per bitcoin. Now, researchers have warned a staggering four out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}