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news Ethereum’s long-anticipated Constantinople upgrade has just been delayed after a critical vulnerability was discovered in one of the planned changes. Smart contract audit firm ChainSecurity flagged Tuesday that Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1283, if implemented, could provide attackers a loophole in the code to steal user funds. Speaking on a call, ethereum developers, as…

Dencun, the largest Ethereum upgrade since the network switched to proof-of-stake (PoS) 18 months ago, is set to go live sometime tomorrow. Some developers have referred to the release as a cheap for crypto because of its implications for how users interact with decentralized apps on Ethereum’s secondary scaling platforms (layer 2s).This is an excerpt

Sam Bankman-Fried defrauded his customers and lenders, a New York jury found after a five-week trial for the FTX founder and former chief executive.The jury reached the guilty verdicts on all seven charges on the first anniversary, coincidentally, of the award-winning CoinDesk scoop that spurred the former crypto mogul's downfall."Sam Bankman-Fried perpetrated one of the biggest financial frauds in American

The Reserve Bank's assistant governor for financial systems, Michelle Bullock, said there is "a lot of fuss over bitcoin."Reserve Bank of Australia building.(Shutterstock)Feb 5, 2021 at 10:59 a.m. UTCAustralia’s Central Bank Says Bitcoin ‘Not Really Money,’ No Risk to Financial StabilityThe Reserve Bank of Australia has delivered somewhat dismissive comments on bitcoin at a meeting…

The Financial Times, perhaps THE arch-critic of cryptocurrencies over the past decade, has conceded that Bitcoin might just have a purpose. It’s just the latest data point that there is a great shift happening in how people view crypto, from ex-President Donald Trump to Larry Fink. They may not fully grasp what’s going on (who

House Republicans quickly nominated a replacement for the speaker of the House, current Majority Leader Steve Scalise, but a floor vote may be more of a challenge, and legislation to fund the government and to regulate crypto may hinge on the outcome.Several GOP lawmakers have already declared they won't be voting for Scalise, though others

Christopher R. Perkins serves as managing partner and president of CoinFund, a registered investment adviser with venture and liquid strategies.In any industry, standardization drives scale. Ethereum’s transition last year to proof of stake (PoS) unlocked an exciting opportunity to create a benchmark that tracks staking yields, which could serve as the basis for financial products…

news Bitmain’s internal bitcoin mining operations are generating 88 percent less computing power than a month ago, suggesting that the industry giant has cut back on capacity. According to the hashing power disclosure that the company releases each month, as of May 7, the hash rate of all Bitmain-owned hardware running the SHA265 algorithm – which…

This week, as Token2049 kicked off in Singapore, a crypto YouTuber going by “Professor Crypto” proudly announced he had received the Best Content Creator award at something called the “KOL Awards.” KOL stands for “Key Opinion Leader,” a term used in marketing for hiring influencers in a particular niche market, and that’s been a controversial