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Binance Has Not Complied With 86% of Israel’s Account Block Requests
7.10.2024
Binance, one of the largest crypto exchanges, has disclosed that it does not automatically comply with account blockages imposed by Israeli authorities. According to reports, the exchange failed to comply with 86% of these requests, as the accounts referenced did not appear to be involved...
New Ethereum proposal aims to boost block times by 50%
7.10.2024
If approved, EIP-7781 will reduce block times from 12 seconds to 8 seconds, increase blob capacity, and make decentralized exchanges slightly more efficient.
Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machines Key to Ethereum Growth, Says Hashkey Capital
5.10.2024
Hashkey Capital, one of Asia’s largest venture capital firms specializing in Web3 and cryptocurrency, has released its sector analysis for the first half of 2024. The report covers significant technological advancements across multiple blockchain sectors, with a strong focus on Ethereum, account...
The Proliferation and Problem of the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Icon
3.10.2024
Kate Kaplan hits on something over at Nielsen Norman Group’s blog that’s been bugging me:
The challenge with this icon is sparkle ambiguity: Participants in our recent research study generally agreed that it represented something a little special
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The Proliferation...
MARA Purchases Bitcoin in September, Expands Hashrate, and Holds Mined BTC
3.10.2024
MARA, one of the largest bitcoin miners traded on the public market, acquired 192 BTC in September, while also holding onto all the bitcoin it mined during the month. MARA Strengthens Mining Operations, Grows Bitcoin Reserves to 26,842 This week, the publicly listed bitcoin (BTC) mining company...
Ava Protocol, Sony’s Soneium partner for no-code blockchain automation
2.10.2024
Ava Protocol’s automation tools will simplify smart contracts on Soneium, while supporting developers with no-code solutions and lower costs
September Slump: Bitcoin Miners See 2024’s Lowest Revenue
1.10.2024
According to the latest data, bitcoin miners pulled in $815.7 million from rewards and fees in September, marking their lowest earnings month of 2024, with $35.66 million less than August’s haul. Bitcoin Miners Earn $815.7M in September, Lowest Monthly Total of 2024 September was a tough...
Zilliqa blockchain malfunctions again, ‘permanent fix’ underway
30.9.2024
Zilliqa faced two significant bugs on Sept. 27 and 29, slowing and halting block production
Zilliqa blockchain malfunctions again, ‘permanent fix’ underway
30.9.2024
Zilliqa faced two significant bugs, on Sept. 27 and 29, slowing and halting block production
Zilliqa blockchain malfunctions again, ‘permanent fix’ underway
30.9.2024
Zilliqa faced two significant bugs, on Sept. 27 and 29, slowing and halting block production
Hashprice Gains Give Bitcoin Miners a Much-Needed Boost After Sluggish Month
29.9.2024
Bitcoin miners are finally catching a break after a sluggish September, with hashprice climbing 10.33% in the past 30 days. A solid 8.93% of that bump came within the last four days alone. Hashprice Jumps Nearly 9% in 4 Days: Bitcoin Miners Catch a Break as September Nears End On Aug. 29, 2024...
BCD Watch
26.9.2024
A new tool from Eric Meyer, Brian Kardell, and Stephanie Stimac backed with Igalia’s support. Brian announced it on his blog, as did Eric, describing it like this:
What BCD Watch does is, it grabs releases of the Browser
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BCD Watch originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
Bitcoin Network Eases Up: Difficulty Falls 4.6% at Block 862,848
26.9.2024
Bitcoin miners got a bit of a breather on Wednesday as the network’s difficulty dropped by 4.6% at block height 862,848. For the next two weeks, the process of finding a block subsidy is 4.6% easier than it was during the previous 2,016 blocks, which had the highest difficulty level ever...
Color Mixing With Animation Composition
24.9.2024
Mixing colors in CSS is pretty much a solved deal, thanks to the more recent color-mix() function as it gains support. Pass in two color values — any two color values at all — and optionally set the proportions.
background-color:
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Color Mixing With Animation Composition originally...
1.71 Million BTC From 2009-2012 Block Rewards Still Dormant, Worth Over $100B
22.9.2024
This past week, a batch of five block rewards from 2009 were moved for the first time in almost two years. Interestingly, since 2015, only 48 block rewards from Bitcoin’s creation year have been spent. With the reawakening of these so-called ‘sleeping’ bitcoins from...
The 5 Month Halving Hangover: Bitcoin Miners Continue to Face Revenue Struggles
21.9.2024
Metrics reveal that although BTC prices climbed 6.97% in September, Bitcoin’s hashprice—the anticipated daily revenue from 1 petahash per second (PH/s)—remains ultra-low. This suggests that miners are still dealing with extremely thin profits. With just nine days left in...
A Detailed Analysis of Ancient 2009 Bitcoin Wallet Spending Since 2015
21.9.2024
On Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, blockchain detectives were left stunned when five dormant bitcoin wallets from 2009 suddenly became active. In a fascinating twist, exactly nine years earlier on Sept. 20, 2015, a single block reward from 2009 was spent, with the owner transferring block height 2,800...
Massive discount fee exploit discovered in DeFi protocol DittoETH patch
12.9.2024
A ‘warden’ of the platform discovered that an attacker could mint massive amounts of tokens by forcing token prices to diverge from their oracle prices
Bitcoin’s All-Time High Difficulty Challenges Miners as Revenue Falls
11.9.2024
On Sept. 10, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty rose 3.58% higher bringing the network’s difficulty to a new all-time high of 92.67 trillion. The news follows Bitcoin’s overall hashrate rising near the 700 exahash per second (EH/s) range when it tapped 693 EH/s. Rising Bitcoin...
Bitcoin miner solves block alone, grabs $180,000 reward
11.9.2024
A single Bitcoin miner received the total reward of a Bitcoin block, a rarity due to the hash and power requirements needed to mine the blockchain