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Solo Bitcoin miner wins the 3.125 BTC lottery, solving valid block
29.4.2024
The solo miner netted around $200,000 in rewards for validating block 841,286
US Senator Marco Rubio Warns BRICS Expansion Threatens Western Sanctions’ Effectiveness
23.1.2024
Florida Senator Marco Rubio expressed his worries about the increasing influence of BRICS, the international group, in the world’s economic system. According to Rubio, if the group keeps expanding, it will be a valid alternative to the current system, allowing nations to sway away from...
FTX-SBF charges valid despite lack of US crypto laws, DOJ says
4.10.2023
Sam Bankman-Fried’s counsel had argued that FTX was not located in the United States, and as SBF did follow regulatory obligations concerning FTX US, charges related to FTX international shouldn’t apply
BRICS Expansion to Make West Recognize New World Order, De-Dollarization: UAE Professor
12.8.2023
The accession of new members will allow BRICS to push the West to accept changes in international relations, an expert from UAE has been quoted as stating. That’s valid in particular for cross-border trade and de-dollarization, said Mohamed El Yattioui, professor at the American University in...
URL.canParse
17.7.2023
Parsing of URLs on the client side has been a common practice for two decades. The early days included using illegible regular expressions but the JavaScript specification eventually evolved into a new URL method of parsing URLs. While URL is incredibly useful when a valid URL is provided,...
Canada's courts deem ???? emoji valid as a contract agreement: Report
9.7.2023
The case sought to determine whether a Canadian farmer had agreed to sell tons of flax to a grain buyer in 2021 by replying with a thumbs-up emoji
Diablo IV Players Getting Launch Errors, But Not If They Pay Up
2.6.2023
Diablo IV is out, at least in Early Access, and while things seem to be going smoothly so far on PC—fingers crossed—loads of PS5 players have run into a wall and can’t access the game.Read more
How the Hunt for Yet-to-Exist Tokens Is Shaping Ethereum’s Layer 2 Landscape
26.4.2023
Token airdrops – and the prospect of them – have become a major customer acquisition strategy for Ethereum's layer 2 scaling projects. But is this strategy a sustainable one?
CoinDesk Winds Down Ethereum Validator ‘Zelda,’ and We Now Wait for Money Back
19.4.2023
CoinDesk set up its own Ethereum validator, fondly nicknamed “Zelda,” in 2020 to witness firsthand the blockchain’s landmark shift to an energy-efficient proof-of-stake consensus mechanism from its original proof-of-work – the same one used by Bitcoin
Ethereum's Shanghai Upgrade on Deck; Developers, Traders Aflutter With Anticipation
12.4.2023
Developers and crypto market analysts are getting in their final words before staked ETH withdrawals are activated
$30K BTC price target stays valid as ‘boring’ Bitcoin heads into US jobs data
7.4.2023
Bitcoin still lacks direction, traders agree, but both $25,000 and $30,000 remain as targets once conditions change
CoinDesk’s Ethereum Validator Enters Final Weeks, Sitting on More Than $30K of Gains
5.4.2023
To better chronicle the Ethereum blockchain's transition to a proof-of-stake network, CoinDesk in 2020 started its own validator – nicknamed Zelda. We plunked down the 32 ETH (roughly $15,000 at the time) and laid the technical groundwork. With staking withdrawals due to start April 12, we take...
Arbitrum Shows Just How Messy (and Tricky) Crypto Airdrops Can Be
29.3.2023
Bugs, server crashes and scammers continue to plague crypto airdrops. Will regulatory pressures be next?
Latest Ethereum Blocks Suggest Validators Are Reversing Censorship
22.3.2023
Non-censoring relays such as Agnostic and ultra sound are delivering more data blocks on Ethereum than Flashbots, the one-time king of MEV-delivering relays
MEV Rewards on Ethereum Reach All-Time High During SVB Bank Run and USDC Depeg
15.3.2023
Profits made from MEV were more than twice as high as the last peak during the FTX implosion
Solo Bitcoin miner defies odds to mine valid BTC block, gets $150K block reward
13.3.2023
The act of mining a valid BTC block solo is so rare that the event has occurred only 270 times out of the 700,000 blocks produced in the last 13 years
Gitcoin’s Owocki Says Crypto Can Regenerate the World. Just Don’t Call Him Starry-Eyed
8.3.2023
A programmer by training, Owocki's view of securities law is not based in any formal legal training but crypto optimism, evolutionary science, economics and legal theory, with a focus on the principal-agent problem
Upcoming Upgrades That Will Shape the Ethereum Ecosystem
1.3.2023
Here are some approaching dates and launches that Ethereum followers and observers should keep an eye on
War of Words Over zkEVMs Might Portend Long Struggle to Tech Maturity
22.2.2023
As Polygon and Matter Labs race to bring their zkEVMs to market, both will need to make compromises in the name of security
Arbitrum Surges Ahead as Ethereum’s Layer 2 Landscape Takes Shape
15.2.2023
Layer 2 rollups now see more transaction volume than Ethereum’s main network