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The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the week of Oct. 2-8, with live updates throughout.
Continue ReadingThe latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the week of Oct. 2-8, with live updates throughout.
Continue ReadingThe ‘Easter egg’ went viral earlier this year, but won’t remain on Apple for long.
Continue ReadingHere Are Six New Projects Looking to Mitigate Bitcoin Mining’s Energy Footprint
Continue ReadingThe EOS Foundation will grant funds to EOS-based applications, among other steps, as the platform gears for a “new life.”
Continue ReadingPrior to the 1.14 release, core engineers were working on fixing problems that were impacting the network’s speed and usability, such as invalid gas metering, lack of flow control for transactions, and lack of fee markets, among other more technical issues. These issues were prioritized to improve user experience.
Continue ReadingAccording to a tweet from Lazzarin, a16z’s head of engineering, “We delegate ~40m votes to outside groups (with no conditions on how they vote).” Lazzarin did not specify the full size of a16z’s UNI holdings and neither did the representative that spoke to CoinDesk. But based on Lazzarin’s tweets, a16z owns at least 55 million […]
Continue ReadingAccording to the email, the breach exposed “customer names, email addresses, residential addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, device IDs, public wallet addresses, transaction history, and account balances.” Although the email was sent yesterday, Coinsquare discovered the breach last week and notified customers via Twitter.
Continue ReadingMakerDAO’s new tech, Maker Teleport, enables users of the DAI stablecoin to circumvent Ethereum’s jam-prone base layer.
Continue ReadingThe network’s mining difficulty peaked on Friday, indicating increased competition for miner rewards.
Continue Reading“Bitkit isn’t a typical Bitcoin app. Anyone can now take their digital lives with them wherever they go, obsoleting Big Tech’s walled gardens and data surveillance,” said Paolo Ardoino, CSO of Synonym, in a release provided to CoinDesk. Ardino is also the chief technology officer (CTO) of Tether, crypto’s biggest stablecoin by market capitalization.
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