California's DMV says it has created tokens for 42M car titles on the Avalanche blockchain and aims to help state residents access them via an app by early 2025
A look at potential Ethereum forks, led by some miners, who face grim prospects after the Merge to a proof-of-stake model that's expected as early as September
what they don't seem to realize is that so far there is no plan to change the chain ID for replay protection (EIP-155). That means anything you do on one chain can be replayed by a...
A look at potential Ethereum forks, led by some miners, after the shift to a proof-of-stake model, called the Merge, expected as early as September
A monkey wrench is about to be thrown into the already complicated transition that the Ethereum blockchain is slated to go through soon.
Harmony stops its Horizon bridge between Ethereum, Binance Chain, and Bitcoin after a theft of ~$100M in altcoins; Harmony says its BTC bridge was not impacted
The layer-1 blockchain's main bridge between Ethereum, Binance Chain, and Bitcoin has been exploited for nine figures, but says its BTC bridge has not been affected.
Binance paused bitcoin withdrawals for a few hours on Monday “due to a stuck transaction causing a backlog”; the company says BTC withdrawals have since resumed
CEO Changpeng Zhao attributed the issue to a “stuck transaction,” and promised a quick fix. Source: @cz_binance , @binance , and @cz_binance .
Major cryptocurrencies crash as the crypto market cap falls below $1T: bitcoin drops 15%+ to ~$22K, ether drops 16%+ to ~$1.2K, and Solana drops 7%+ to ~$28
(Any views expressed below are the personal views of the author … Mitchell Clark / The Verge : BlockFi and Crypto.com lay off hundreds of staff as coins slump Dylan LeClair / Bitco...
Elon Musk says the Twitter deal “cannot move forward” until Twitter proves bots are <5% of users, claiming his offer is based on “SEC filings being accurate”
Elon Musk said he'll proceed with his $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. only if the social media giant … Source: @elonmusk .
Analysis: 44,058 randomly selected public Twitter accounts that have tweeted in the past 90 days and could resemble mDAUs shows 19.42% are likely spam or fake
A look at Do Kwon's algorithmic UST stablecoin, designed to trade at $1, after it fell as low as $0.60; CoinMarketCap says there are 18.5B UST in circulation
Algorithmic stablecoins, like their more “traditional” counterparts, are supposed to provide calm in the chaos of crypto.
CoinMarketCap: UST stablecoin loses its USD peg, falling as low as $0.60, after the Luna Foundation Guard pledges $1.5B of its bitcoin reserves to support UST
Despite Loan From Bitcoin Reserves The Block : Crypto researcher unpacks why UST broke down and what happens next Brian Newar / Cointelegraph : Terra peg mechanism in doubt as UST ...
CoinMarketCap: UST stablecoin loses its USD peg, falling as low as $0.60, after the Luna Foundation Guard pledges $1.5B of its bitcoin reserves to support UST
Despite Loan From Bitcoin Reserves The Block : Crypto researcher unpacks why UST broke down and what happens next Brian Newar / Cointelegraph : Terra peg mechanism in doubt as UST ...
A look at Do Kwon's algorithmic UST stablecoin, designed to trade at $1, after it fell as low as $0.60; CoinMarketCap says there are 18.5B UST in circulation
Algorithmic stablecoins, like their more “traditional” counterparts, are supposed to provide calm in the chaos of crypto.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gives her first speech on digital assets, saying a CBDC “would require years of development, not months”, and more
except for stablecoins Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk : Crypto Rules Should Match Traditional Financial System, Yellen to Say Thursday Casey Wagner / Blockworks : Yellen Warns of Crypto...
Jack Dorsey's tweet sparks uproar: “You don't own ‘web3.’ The VCs and their LPs do. It will never escape their incentives. It's ultimately a centralized entity”
Fresh off relinquishing the chief executive reins of Twitter Inc., Bitcoin enthusiast Jack Dorsey … Source: @jack .
Sources: Zillow is pitching institutional investors on the sale of 7K homes for ~$2.8B to recover from buying too many, which it blames on its bidding algorithm
- Online listing giant has been buying thousands of homes — Zillow Group Inc. is looking to sell about 7,000 homes as it seeks …
Sam Altman's Worldcoin launches its cryptocurrency that it gives in exchange for users' eye scans, says it has 100K users globally and is valued at $1B
- Tech millionaire Sam Altman's new start-up Worldcoin uses orb-shaped devices to scan people's eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency.
Sam Altman's Worldcoin launches its cryptocurrency that it gives in exchange for users' eye scans, says it has 100K users globally and is valued at $1B
Introduction Field Tests: Towards 1 Billion Sign-Ups & Beyond Solving the …
Some attendees of Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, which had no mask or proof of vaccine requirements for its 12K guests, say they tested positive for COVID-19
I'm guessing a lot of them were anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers/denialists. https://twitter.com/... Kevin Sekniqi / @kevinsekniqi : The absolute craziest thing I'm finding out is that pe...