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US House committee leadership threatens to subpoena SEC over FTX docs

Patrick McHenry led efforts starting in February to obtain communication records between SEC and Justice Department staff over the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried. 1050 Total views 29 Total shares Rep. Patrick McHenry, who chairs the United States House Financial Services Committee, has suggested that he may try to subpoena the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

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NBA Champion and Former LeBron James Teammate Now Working in Bitcoin

Today, Bitcoin only exchange, Swan Bitcoin, welcomed NBA Champion Matthew Dellavedova to its team as Vice President of Business Development, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. Dellavedova is most well known for his illustrious professional basketball career and achievements in the NBA, including an NBA Championship in 2016 with the Cleveland Cavaliers

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ETH Staking Has a Bright Future, Despite Regulatory Uncertainty

Since Ethereum transitioned to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism in 2022, the blockchain has been maintained and secured by users who stake ETH and run validators. The mechanism is simple. Validators deposit ETH in a smart contract, run software to validate and propose new blocks, and get paid for providing this service.The Ethereum blockchain was designed

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Five Reasons Why the World Needs a Standardized Ethereum Staking Rate

Staking rates are to crypto what interest rates are to traditional finance. Ethereum’s transition a year ago to proof-of-stake with “The Merge” was an incredible accomplishment for its ecosystem that delivered obvious enhancements to network security and reduced its energy footprint by 99.95%.This shift, which made it so validators are rewarded with both protocol emissions

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With All Eyes on a Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval, Don’t Sleep on ETH (or ETHE)

A federal judge last month severely undermined the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) decision to reject converting the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) into a more alluring exchange-traded fund. The decision has many analysts now pricing in approval of a spot bitcoin ETF sooner rather than later. Analysts at Bloomberg put the odds of approval

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The Future of Cryptocurrency Faces Meme Domination: Can Memeinator Change the Timeline?

2022’s crypto winter wasn’t enough to kill off the residual effects of 2021’s meme coin mania hangover. The meme coin space is thriving as a vital part of the future of cryptocurrency, playing an integral role in onboarding masses of new investors. The chance to make early investors massive returns is a bonus if they

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Minimal Signs of Inscriptions Replacing Monetary Transfers, Glassnode Report Reveals

The trend coincided with a notable surge in block space demand – a trend that has happened on par with the release of Ordinals and Inscriptions. The elevated demand has been sustained ever since, according to Glassnode’s latest analysis. Despite the concerns surrounding Ordinals congesting the Bitcoin network, the blockchain intelligence firm suggests that there

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The Great Inscription Renumbering Debate: The Code & The Culture

These days we often wax eloquent about the “early days of Bitcoin” and the great visionaries who participated in the discussions on protocol development. However we often forget that the cypherpunks of olde were human too — that early oversights & unresolved disagreements resulted in cumbersome idiosyncrasies that define our sacred blockchain today.If you weren’t

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Staking Risks Are Vastly Misunderstood

Interest in staking has shown a strong resilience to the bear market. A considerable amount of value remains staked on top blockchains, in many cases surpassing the actual total value locked (TVL) living on-chain.This article is part of CoinDesk's "Staking Week." JK is the founder of ApybaraIO, the maker of ProtocolStaking.info.Sources: ProtocolStaking.info, DeFi LlamaHowever, things

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EigenLayer’s Sreeram Kannan on the Hot (and Risky) Ethereum Trend of ‘Restaking’

Sreeram Kannan was a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, when he started working for its blockchain research lab in 2017.It was there while working at the lab that he founded his company, EigenLabs, the organization behind EigenLayer – a blockchain protocol considered a pioneer in a just-now-arriving trend in the Ethereum ecosystem known