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Tether has $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and will allocate 15% of its profits into “stacking sats” starting this month.
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The European Union's MiCA regulation passed a final vote from member state representatives today. But did you know about these nine other crypto laws in the pipelines?
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Waves founder Aleksandr Ivanov had been challenging critics to meet him in person in Dubai. took him up on that offer. Read what he has to say about hacks, theft, and various other company shenanigans in this exclusive interview.
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“Among companies that disclosed details about their current auditor, 46% of them said they are working with one of the Big Four.
Their roster includes the likes of crypto exchanges Coinbase and Bitpanda, stablecoin operator Circle, crypto brokerage Galaxy Digital and blockchain… Show more
There is now “a communication channel between the device and the outside,” which presents a security vulnerability, said, adding that his assessment is based on public information, “which is very short on details.”
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“If you want more peace of mind, or find recovery phrase management a barrier, you now have a highly secure service, tested by our [...] team which exposed breaches in [...] many other wallets,” the spokesperson tells
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Polygon Labs' told his main concern is that “the encrypted shards of the key are shared with three centralised entities” since “only two of them need to collude or be compromised to reconstruct the key.”
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“For those that don’t want to use Recover, their experience doesn’t change — they’re as secure as they have been over the last nine years with six million devices sold and none hacked,” the Ledger spokesperson said.
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"The private key never leaves the device" was the value promise of Ledger.
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An excellent report by
If Ledger closed source firmware can pull out the private key from their security element for their private seed recovery service, it begs the… Show more
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Celsius are using the same wallet to withdraw from Lido that they used to consolidate after panic withdrawing their stETH across the wormhole bridge after getting caught farming on Anchor in May 2022 lmao
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“including one judge who has ruled on tax avoidance cases”
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I always thought that perpetual futures were a crypto invention, but it turns out they first appeared in Hong Kong gold markets in the '80s, were popularized by Robert Shiller in 1993, and finally got imported into crypto by now-defunct exchange Icbit.
blog.everstrike.io/how-an-obscure
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Tornado Cash developer wears an ankle bracelet so Dutch authorities can track him, and his residency expires soon. spoke with the court to find out what's next
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Aragon tried to protect its DAO from a “coordinated attack“ organised by activist investors. It didn’t go over well.
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“It’s such an injustice,” says. The US government is “cutting in line as a creditor.”
These claims fall under the “Admin Priority” status, which grants tax authorities the first right to payment in bankruptcy cases.
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the Erdoğan market on has a 2% trading fee -- seems like a new policy? no fee on limit orders
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Early last year, more than $530 million was wiped from the Waves blockchain, leaving investors devastated.
has unearthed information that raises questions about founder Aleksandr Ivanov's role in the debacle.
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You are telling me this grifter fuck has gotten $2.4m in 30 minutes for a literal $PSYOP token...
Ok we deserve 0.
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Bitcoin Core developer tells DL News that spam moniker for Ordinals is ”a bit extreme when you consider that there’s live money on top of these transactions."
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The U.S. government, not satisfied with crushing innovation and driving the American blockchain industry overseas, will feast on the bankruptcy of FTX ahead of the digital asset holders they are allegedly protecting. 👇
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“It’s such an injustice,” says. The US government is “cutting in line as a creditor.”
These claims fall under the “Admin Priority” status, which grants tax authorities the first right to payment in bankruptcy cases.
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in today’s news, coinbase got bullied by an army of anons:
Coinbase had earlier responded to ’s request for comment by pointing out a disclaimer at the end of its newsletter.
“The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author…”
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actually hilarious to me that you guys care so much about what coinbase wrote to make #deletecoinbase trending and even more hilarious that coinbase got bullied into thinking they need to apologize for their screw up
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We screwed up and we are sorry.
Yesterday we shared an overview of the $pepe meme coin to provide a fact-based picture of a trending topic. This did not provide the whole picture of the history of the meme and we apologize to the community.
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Betfair odds on Turkish presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu got cut, meaning they now think it's likelier that KK will win
betfair.com/exchange/plus/
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“There’s a sense of hope in the air. With Do Kwon in jail, I’m optimistic that there will be fair punishment for his crimes,” tells
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A crypto wallet, likely linked to Kwon, has made combined transactions of more than $7 million in the last few days.
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The entire war on Crypto summarized in fifteen seconds.
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The European Crypto Initiative asked policymakers to heed the danger of the law spilling over to blockchain developers. Such a spillover could, in effect, kill DeFi in the bloc
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“Crypto is an option” in developed regions like the US and Europe, , founder of Ether Argentina, told DL News. “In Argentina, it’s a necessity.”
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I talked to and other market structure experts about the impact of Jump's and Jane Street's crypto pullback dlnews.com/articles/marke
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perhaps, anon, your grandchildren will one day auction off their inherited nfts like this
"grandpa minted this jpeg for only 0.07 eth, then it went to 0... and now look at this, i can't believe it"
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Gitcoin introduced a diversity, equity, and inclusion bonus that aims to allocate $50k to projects with diverse teams. Since there is no community round for the DEI grants, the selection committee has complete control over which projects receive funding.
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I second that, start a marketing campaign going to poor countries to scan people's eyeballs while promising shitcoins and then selling it to general public as organic anti-sybil narrative seems very sus.
I would never trust a company that falls for such growth practices.
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Soon we might see more vocal factions against or for
worldcoin
I see lots of brains falling into the typical "it's exciting work we do here". But it's not a pure technical question, nor is it only about the tech.
Start thinking about how it started & what methods it uses. twitter.com/SodaMast/statu…
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Readers welcome DL News’ coverage of stories that are ignored by mainstream media, says
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