THELOGICALINDIAN - Amazon is recruiting a Head of Product to accommodate blockchain technology into its billow casework
Amazon has acquaint a job abstraction for a Blockchain Head of Product who “ideally” has acquaintance in DeFi.
Amazon Recruiting Blockchain Product Head
Amazon is attractive to appoint a crypto expert.
The tech behemothic placed the job post for a Head of Product at Amazon’s blockchain assemblage Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) in Seattle today, agreeable candidates to “drive chump success in a transformational space.” The acknowledged applicant will be amenable for acceptable Amazon Web Service (AWS) by amalgam blockchain technology and its use cases, the column notes.
The description additionally capacity how the aggregation is attractive for addition who is “passionate about blockchain, broadcast systems, and cloud-scale software.” Apart from able acquaintance and educational qualifications, the role demands “experience with blockchain frameworks, technology, and applications including Ethereum and Hyperledger.” It adds that the ideal applicant “will accept acquaintance carrying articles or innovations in the blockchain space, and in accurate DeFi or Traditional Financial Services.”
In March, AMB added abutment for Ethereum to acquiesce EVM-based applications to run on its billow platform. It additionally enabled synchronization with the accessible nodes beyond the Ethereum network. Ethereum is currently the arch DeFi belvedere in the blockchain space.
The contempo developments advance that Amazon is attractive to action a apartment of articles that will be accordant with DeFi applications. AWS is the world’s better aggregation in the billow space, with Google as its abutting competitor.
The FBI has recovered added than bisected of the Bitcoin bribe paid out to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attackers.
U.S. admiral accept appear the acknowledged accretion of added than bisected of the bribe paid out in Bitcoin to the Colonial Pipeline attackers. The FBI believes the hackers are affiliated to Russia-based ransomware accumulation DarkSide.
Colonial Pipeline Ransom Recovered
The U.S. has bedeviled the Colonial Pipeline hackers’ Bitcoin.
The Dept of Amends (DoJ) announced that added than bisected of the $4.4 actor ransom paid out to Colonial Pipeline to ransomware attackers had been recovered Monday.
The Colonial Pipeline adventure bedridden the southern U.S. states and acquired huge disruption due to gas shortages. Biden alleged a accompaniment of emergency afterward the events. The FBI assured that a accumulation affiliated to DarkSide, a Russian accumulation of hackers accepted for ransomware attacks, was responsible.
Since then, the DoJ has appear that it would accord the aforementioned antecedence akin to ransomware as it does to agitation in the future. The anew created Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force will alike the acknowledgment to all ransomware and cyberattacks in the country from Washington.
The account that the FBI had recovered Bitcoin beatific abhorrence in the markets, with some assertive that the account could drudge the Bitcoin network. In fact, the FBI agents managed to use a block charlatan to clue the affairs and amount out the accessible abode area the ransomed Bitcoin was stored. The FBI again acclimated a accreditation to affirmation the 63.7 BTC in that abode to the barter or babysitter autumn the Bitcoin.
The on-chain Bitcoin abode affiliated to the Colonial Pipeline bribe wasn’t hacked. Once the FBI ample out the accessible key by allegory on-chain data, it affiliated that accessible key to a assertive custodian. The babysitter for the abode was asked to allotment the clandestine key. As the accepted crypto adage goes: “not your keys, not your Bitcoin.”
Disclaimer: The columnist captivated ETH and several added cryptocurrencies at the time of writing.
