How I Became a Bitcoin Developer Fresh Out of High School

[ad_1] Despite the current bear market, Brozzoni remains optimistic about Bitcoin’s future. She expresses confidence in Bitcoin’s “antifragility,” a word (ironically) coined by Nassim Taleb, one of Bitcoin’s harshest critics. An antifragile entity is one that not only survives adversity, but thrives on it. In his book, “Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder,” Taleb uses […]

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Ethereum Scaling Solution Immutable X Will Allow Ether-to-Dollar Withdrawals

[ad_1] Decentralized layer 2 solutions like Immutable X enable faster, cheaper, and more energy-efficient transactions than the Ethereum mainnet. As per developer documents, Immutable can process over 9,000 transactions per second (tps), while the Ethereum network averages 10.54 tps as of Thursday morning. [ad_2]

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Cardano Developers Delay ‘Vasil’ Upgrade Citing Bugs

[ad_1] “The IOG engineering team is extremely close to finalizing the core work, with just seven bugs still outstanding to complete the hard fork work, with none currently ranked as ‘severe,” developers said. “After some consideration, we have agreed NOT to send the hard fork update proposal to the testnet today to allow more time […]

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Solana Halted by Bug Linked to Certain Cold Storage Transactions

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Solana Goes Dark For 7 Hours as Bots Swarm ‘Candy Machine’ NFT Minting Tool

[ad_1] Other parts of the ecosystem quickly moved to bolster their defenses. At 11:36 p.m. EST, Metaplex, the key steward of Solana NFT infrastructure and one closely intertwined with Candy Machine, tweeted it would soon deploy a 0.01 SOL “botting penalty” to help NFT projects stanch excessive traffic. [ad_2]

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JoinMarket Is About to Make Bitcoin Privacy More User-Friendly

[ad_1] “When the internet came around, privacy was an afterthought. Slowly and painfully, we, as a society, figured out that having all communications in plain text is a terrible idea. Freedom and human rights quickly fall to the wayside if everyone is surveilled at all times. The switch from HTTP to HTTPS took a long […]

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