Ethereum-Powered Insurer Nexus Is Winning Over Blockchain Skeptics

news The rate at which new transaction blocks are being added to the ethereum blockchain is back on the rise after the network’s successful upgrades, Constantinople and St. Petersburg, last week. According to blockchain analytics site Etherscan, the daily block count increased more than 1,500 blocks within a 24-hour period after the upgrades, implemented as hard…

I get it: Meme coins are dumb. Unserious. A waste of time. They give the impression that the crypto industry is trivial. Full of speculators. Vitalik Buterin is probably right to say the whole industry would be better off if people instead focused on legit projects.This is an excerpt from The Node newsletter, a daily

news Telecommunications giant China Mobile is trying to show everyday consumers the value of blockchain by incorporating the technology into an ordinary household product. The company’s internet of things (IoT) unit has developed a water purifier with a built-in computing chip and an IoT module. Like other IoT-connected devices, it will collect data on user…

Bitcoin difficulty hits an all-time high of 95.67T, which coincides with a record hashrate that went above 700 EH/s for the first time. The 3.9% jump in difficulty becomes the 13th positive adjustment for 2024. Once the 365-SMA total miner revenue is claimed, this typically coincides with bull runs in bitcoin. 01:01 Bitcoin Breaks $64K

The business intelligence company already has 70,784 bitcoins.MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor(CoinDesk archives)Jan 28, 2021 at 9:31 p.m. UTCMicroStrategy May Get Creative to Make Future Bitcoin Buys: CEOMicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor pledged to keep pouring the business intelligence company’s excess cash into bitcoin Thursday, telling investors his team will also “explore various approaches” for additional buys.…

XRP's price has nearly doubled this week to above $1. The SEC's legal troubles could have a bearing on its pending appeal in the Ripple ruling, which said that XRP sales on public exchanges did not fall under the definition of a security. The price surge is consistent with the recent bullish positioning in the

Ether (ETH) clocked a new all-time high on Friday as blockchain data showed that smart contract blockchain Ethereum burned more tokens than it emitted in the last 24 hours, thanks partly to strong action in Shiba Inu (SHIB).The native token of Ethereum’s blockchain rose to $4,402 during Asian hours, topping the previous record high of…

A physical dogecoin (DOGE) token could reach Earth’s moon in a space payload mission planned by Pittsburg-based firm Astrobotic, Dogecoin developers said in an X post Thursday.“Astrobotic plans to send a physical Dogecoin to the moon in the DHL Moonbox via ULA's Vulcan Centaur Rocket on 12/23/2023,” Dogecoin developers said. “Funded by our community in

The Bank for International Settlements’ Project Sela used novel intermediaries to cut liquidity risk for central bank digital currencies.Sela feeds into digital currency projects for Israeli shekel, Hong Kong dollar.Central bank digital currencies can be set up to be secure and private while allowing transactions to be settled on the central bank’s own ledger, the