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Ex-FTX Engineering Director Nishad Singh Pleads to Be Spared From Prison

17.10.2024
FTX’s former engineering director, Nishad Singh has urged a judge to spare him from prison for role in…

$500M Bitcoin Buried in Landfill: Man Sues City After Decade-Long Battle for Recovery

14.10.2024
James Howells is suing Newport City Council after a decade-long fight to recover a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins, now worth nearly $500 million, mistakenly dumped in 2013. The council has repeatedly denied excavation requests, citing environmental concerns. Howells claims the data...

Solana ‘memecoin frenzy’ prompts uptick in Rust dev demand

7.8.2024
Rust is also becoming an increasingly popular programming language for blockchain firms building “performant distributed systems,” says CryptoJobsList CEO

Former Microsoft Engineer Predicts a Gradual Shift in Blockchain Development Focus Toward Vertical Scaling

23.6.2024
While wrapped digital assets have enabled the bridging of assets and expanded their utility, their perceived need for custodianship reintroduces centralization risks and trust dependencies. This contradicts the decentralized ethos of blockchain technology, according to Chris Li, founder and CTO...

Software Engineer: Anchoring AI on Public Blockchains Aids in Establishing a ‘Permanent Provenance Trail’

2.6.2024
With artificial intelligence (AI) seemingly destined to become central to everyday digital applications and services, anchoring AI models on public blockchains potentially helps to “establish a permanent provenance trail,” asserted Michael Heinrich, CEO of 0G Labs. According...

Former Security Engineer Sentenced to Three Years for Hacking Two Decentralized Exchanges

14.4.2024
A former security engineer, who stole digital assets valued at more than $12 million from two decentralized exchanges, has received a three-year prison sentence. In what has been characterized as the “first-ever” conviction for a smart contract hack, the U.S. Judge also ordered...

The Protocol: How to Engineer Harder Money, or Just Make Your Own

10.4.2024
Bitcoin's supply growth is set to automatically drop by 50% when next week's "halving" arrives, Ethereum is pondering a cut in ETH issuance, and meme coin issuers are just no-holds-barred spinning up new ones. Blockchain tech is enabling all sorts of monetary strategies

Blockchain Engineer Salaries in Asia Drop by More Than 5%

8.4.2024
Salaries for blockchain engineers went down in 2023 due to tough times in the industry, like layoffs and companies not hiring as much. The post Blockchain Engineer Salaries in Asia Drop by More Than 5% appeared first on Cryptonews

US Law Enforcement Arrests Mastermind of $1.2 Million MEV Rug Pull Scam

21.3.2024
  The U.S. law enforcement authorities have arrested Robert Robb, a MEV bot engineer known as “pokerbrat” for allegedly masterminding a $1.2 million crypto rug pull scam. Robb was detained on March 20, according to a screenshot from the Detention Center Inmate information of the Henderson...

Exclusive: Anza Co-Founder Responds to Solana Centralization Concerns

30.1.2024
The Solana blockchain crew has moved some team members from one of its divisions to a new entity called Anza. Anza co-founder Jeff Washington, a former engineer at Solana Labs, announced this move on Tuesday, revealing the team’s focus on improving the performance of a Solana Labs validator...

Bitcoin Ordinals ‘Genesis Cat’ Sells for $254K in Sotheby’s Digital Art Auction

23.1.2024
“Genesis Cat,” a digital art piece created on the Bitcoin blockchain’s Ordinals protocol, was sold for over $250,000 at a recent Sotheby’s auction. Created by artist and engineer Francisco “FAR” Alarcon, “Genesis Cat” is a part of the Quantum Cats collection, produced...

Date.now()

17.1.2024
Ask any software engineer and they’ll tell you that coding date logic can be a nightmare. Developers need to consider timezones, weird date defaults, and platform-specific date formats. The easiest way to work with dates is to reduce the date to the most simple format possible — usually...

Ex-Amazon Engineer Guilty of Historic $12.3M Crypto Heist

18.12.2023
Source: AdobeStock / Sergey Nivens A former Amazon engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking two cryptocurrency exchanges, resulting in the first-ever conviction involving the hacking of a smart contract. Shakeeb Ahmed, a former security engineer at Amazon, is now facing the possibility of up to five...

Inside Job: Security Engineer Behind Multi-Million Dollar Crypto Exploits

15.12.2023
Source: Adobe / Rawpixel.com Shakeeb Ahmed, a senior security engineer associated with an international technology company, pleaded guilty on December 14 to computer fraud in connection with his hacking of two decentralized crypto exchanges. The announcement of the guilty plea was made by Damian...

New Research Suggests Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto

22.10.2023
In an extensive analysis, the American software engineer and columnist Jameson Lopp tackles the enduring mystery of Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. While many have speculated that computer scientist Hal Finney was behind the pseudonym, Lopp presents several compelling instances that...

FTX Engineer Reveals $8B Bug, Lavish Spending, and Political Donations in Explosive Testimony Against Bankman-Fried

17.10.2023
Nishad Singh, former director of engineering at FTX, testified this week against his former boss Sam Bankman-Fried, detailing a software bug that hid billions in missing funds and excessive spending on celebrities and real estate. Singh Points Finger at $8 Billion Bug and Bankman-Fried’s...

Alameda Research Lost $200M to Several Phishing Attacks Due to “Poor Security Practices”: Ex-FTX Engineer

12.10.2023
Former Alameda Research software engineer Aditya Baradwaj has exposed several security flaws that reportedly caused the FTX’s sister hedge fund at least a staggering $200 million. In a series of posts on X (Twitter), titled ‘The Hacks,’ the whistleblower revealed, “poor security practices...