Anti-crypto SEC commissioner’s term is up in 41 days — Will she be replaced?

Two men have been arrested in Tokyo on suspicion of defrauding IT firm Vipstar Inc. from hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin (BTC), Mainichi reported on Jan. 23. One of the suspects is a former employee who used his access to steal money from a trading fund.Yuto Onitsuka and Takuma Sasaki are accused of…

Opinion by: Alex Nguyen, CEO at VibrantX The Move programming language’s origin is not super cypherpunk. Facebook (now Meta) created Move after the Libra/Diem team compared major smart contract languages (Bitcoin Script, Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode languages) and decided their formidable in-house tech talent could make a new language built on years of private and

The Bitcoin futures market has a major expiry date on Dec. 25. 1714 Total views 12 Total shares In a Monday tweet, crypto data provider Skew reported that 102,200 Bitcoin options will expire on Dec. 25. Options contracts allow holders to buy or sell Bitcoin at a specific price, which is known as the strike price.…

Some of ChatGPT's responses have shown the model's accuracy deteriorated over the last few months and researchers can't figure out why. 289 Total views 9 Total shares OpenAI’s artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT seems to be getting worse as time goes on and researchers can’t seem to figure out the reason why. In a July 18 study,…

Network transaction fees across all blockchains have spiked over the weekend as the Ordinals inscriptions craze continues to push demand for blockspace — not just on the Bitcoin network.Inscriptions on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains skyrocketed over the weekend, causing a spike in gas spent on them.On Dec. 16, gas spent on inscriptions surged to

The $200 million fund aims to foster growth and innovation on the Avalanche network. 1723 Total views 14 Total shares The Avalanche Foundation has unveiled “Blizzard” — a fund offering more than $200 million in incentives to developers who build on the Avalanche (AVAX) network.The fund will provide liquidity to those early-stage projects that innovate…

The firm allegedly denied having any exposure to troubled sister lending firm Haru Invest before suspending transfers earlier this month. According to a report by local news outlet Digital Asset, South Korean crypto lending firm Delio is currently under investigation by the country's Financial Services Commission (FSC) as of June 30. The Commission alleges fraud,…

Imagine an institutional investor like an insurance company or pension fund decides that it wants to test the cryptocurrency waters. Or maybe a large corporation is looking to buy some Bitcoin (BTC) to diversify its treasury holdings. One thing they’re unlikely to do is announce their intention beforehand.That could drive up the price of the…

Russia is moving to regulate cryptocurrency mining after legitimizing the broader crypto industry in January. 331 Total views 6 Total shares As Russian cryptocurrency advocates are working to attract global crypto mining operators, local lawmakers have gotten more serious about regulating the industry.Anatoly Aksakov, chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, claimed…