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The bill already signed into law legalizes online sports betting in the state with bookmakers permitted to accept cryptocurrency deposits from bettors. 3496 Total views 58 Total shares Wyoming has passed a new law legalizing online sports betting in the state with gamblers able to fund their accounts with bookmakers using cryptocurrencies.Governor Mark Gordon signed…

Buterin has advocated preserving Ethereum consensus minimalism and not overloading validators with other things. 388 Total views 1 Total shares Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a lengthy blog post warning of the dangers of “stretching” Ethereum's consensus past its core functions of validating blocks and securing the network. Ethereum consensus is the process whereby blocks…

The cryptocurrency tide is flowing out, and it looks more and more like Digital Currency Group (DCG) has been skinny dipping. But let’s be clear: The current crypto contagion isn’t a failure of crypto as a technology or long-term investment. DCG’s problem is one of failure by regulators and gatekeepers.Since its 2013 inception, DCG’s Grayscale…

“What’s the price of those Bitcoin’s you keep talking about?” a friend asks me. I look at my phone and it’s still averaging around $9,200. “About the same as last month mate,” I replied. Bitcoin (BTC) price has hardly moved an inch in the last six weeks, barely moving 2% in either direction from its average…

China does not want its crackdown on cryptocurrencies to cause the country to fall behind in the NFT boom. 733 Total views 14 Total shares China is planning to draw a clear line between cryptocurrencies and nonfungible tokens (NFTs), pretty much the same way it did with its digital currency efforts, before the crypto crackdown…

Lido Finance is the market leader in Ethereum staking, claiming 28.2% of net ETH deposits.