Saylor’s comments on big bank BTC custody are ‘batshit insane’ — Buterin

Bitcoin price action begins to show signs of instability as $39,000 provides near-term resistance. 810 Total views 3 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) began to show fresh volatility as Wall Street trading began on March 15, ahead of a crucial interest rate announcement from the United States Federal Reserve.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewCrunch time…

Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s notePolicy changes slowly. Crypto wants to move fast. Sometimes fairly, sometimes not, the crypto industry often portrays traditional financial regulators as calcified relics unprepared to deal with the coming new world. To be fair, everyone seems to…

CEO of crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital Michael Novogratz said that vegetarian meat startup Beyond Meat reminds him of cryptocurrencies in 2017, in an interview with CNBC published on August 1.Innovation brings speculation, creating bubblesDuring the interview, Novogratz declared that Beyond Meat reminds him of the state of the crypto market in 2017, suggesting that…

The companies collectively purchased nearly $1.3 billion worth of Bitcoin ETF shares during the quarter.

German programmer Tobias Frömel (aka “battleck”) has “hacked back” the perpetrators of the Muhstik ransomware who forced him to pay 0.09 Bitcoin (BTC) to recover access to his files.In a Bleeping Computer forum post on Oct. 7, Frömel revealed that he had hacked the attackers’ database, sharing almost 3,000 decryption keys and a free decryptor…

Alexander Lipton, a connection science fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and adjunct professor of mathematics at New York University (NYU), has claimed that Libra’s white paper copied concepts for a coin proposed in his academic work. Lipton co-authored the paper “Digital trade coin: towards a more stable digital currency” in 2018. In a…

Yearn.finance’s native governance token YFI became the first-ever altcoin to surpass the price of Bitcoin (BTC) on Aug. 20. It spiked to as high as $13,444 on Binance, fueled by the growing demand for Decentralized Finance, or DeFi.The sentiment around YFI’s vertical rally since early August remains mixed. Some believe YFI is primed for a…

In late March, Ronin, an Ethereum sidechain built for the popular play-to-earn nonfungible token game Axie Infinity, was hacked for over 173,600 Ether (ETH) and 25.5 million USD Coin (USDC) for a combined value of over $600 million. The breach on the Ronin bridge was confirmed by Sky Mavis, the developers behind the popular play-to-earn (P2E)…

Demystify the algorithm of thoughts (AoT), an AI innovation transforming how computers reason and solve problems.