Losing the Lambos: It’s Time to Get Serious About Crypto’s Big Questions

Optimism, a layer 2 scaling solution to Ethereum, successfully completed its Bedrock upgrade, moving the blockchain closer toward its goal of becoming a “Superchain” of many interoperable mini-blockchains.“This is a big deal for OP mainnet,” Karl Floersch, CEO and co-founder of OP Labs, the company behind the blockchain, told CoinDesk this week in an interview.The…

news A pair of simple Mozilla vulnerabilities made it easier for hackers to phish Coinbase employees. The exploit, detailed by ZDNet, was a remote code execution attack that could force machines running Firefox to install spyware to capture passwords and other data. The two vulnerabilities – CVE-2019-11708 and CVE-2019-11707 – first appeared in April 15…

Jan 22, 2020 at 20:00 UTCLibra has lost another Association member, but according to @nlw that’s likely low on its worries list, plus Square’s LN efforts & TON’s SEC support.News broke yesterday the Libra Association had seen its eighth high-profile defection, this time from the telecom giant Vodafone. In today’s episode of The Breakdown, @nlw…

Yesterday, Nasdaq, the prominent, tech-forward U.S. stock exchange, announced it is calling off plans to launch a cryptocurrency custody service. The new business line, which would have been regulated as a special purpose trust in New York, was slated to launch in the second quarter of this year.The news is a significant blow amid emerging…

Oct 24, 2020 at 13:00 UTC(Kevin Mazur via Getty Images)Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Paul Tudor Jones: A Bet on Bitcoin Is a Bet on Human IngenuityA recap of an exceptionally bullish week for bitcoin and crypto as a whole. For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts,…

Stellar (XLM) was the best performing cryptocurrency amongst the 25 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization during the month of July.

"Consensus by bet – that didn't work. Hub and spoke chains – that didn't work. Proof-of-proof-of-work – that didn't work. Hyper cube chains – that also didn't work!" Singing on stage alongside songwriter Jonathan Mann, ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin ended his keynote at Devcon4 in Prague on Wednesday, with a song that listed "the graveyard…

news Today marks the debut of a new cryptocurrency, called Beam – one of two highly-anticipated privacy coins implemented with the so-called “mimblewimble” protocol. The mimblewimble protocol, which is touted as a way to make transactions confidential and virtually untraceable, first appeared in the summer of 2016, and has been widely anticipated ever since. While…

Mar 24, 2020 at 17:05 UTCUpdated Mar 24, 2020 at 17:26 UTCBitcoin Halving 2020Bitcoin’s Approaching ‘Halving,’ ExplainedThis article is part of an ongoing series on the significance of Bitcoin's third halving, expected to take place around May 13, 2020. Further reading:“The halvening" sounds like a horror movie about an ax murderer. But it's actually the…