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Japanese Firm Metaplanet to Add $659M in Bitcoin to Its Treasury, Shares Soar 90% in Response
9.4.2024
According to the latest figures, Metaplanet, a company listed on the Japanese stock exchange, witnessed its share price soar by nearly 90% in just one day. This significant jump came on the heels of the company’s announcement regarding its intention to incorporate 1 billion yen in bitcoin...
How Bitcoin can help secure proof-of-stake blockchain protocols
12.6.2023
Stanford University professor David Tse has pioneered a way to use Bitcoin as a means to secure proof-of-stake blockchains
Brazilian Voting Authority Might Include Blockchain Tech in Future Elections
9.8.2022
The Brazilian voting authority (TSE), has publicly declared it is studying blockchain as a technology that might help the organization in its task of organizing ballots. Celio Castro Wermerlinger, coordinator of modernization of the institution, stated that this decentralized ledger tech...
Harmony offers $1M bounty, but is it big enough?
27.6.2022
The Harmony team says it will offer $1 million to the hacker who exploited the Horizon Bridge for $100 million, but that may not be enough to get the funds back
A New Academic Paper Describes 3 Attack Methods Against an Ethereum PoS Chain
31.10.2021
Following the Altair upgrade on the Ethereum network, the protocol’s native cryptocurrency reached a new all-time price high. Altair is the next step for the Ethereum’s network’s proof-of-stake (PoS) transition. However, a recently submitted white paper explains that a group...