Bitcoin 2022, hosted in Miami, Florida, on April 6-9, featured a panel titled “Preventing Attacks on Bitcoin” with three Bitcoin Core developers: Luke Dashjr, Bryan Bishop and Jameson Lopp (substituting for Peter Todd). The panel was moderated by Shinobi. The panelists discuss technical and social attack vectors, primarily in the development process of Bitcoin Core, that could hinder or wholly…
sponsored Buzzwords like NFTs, Web 3.0, and blockchain domains have infatuated everyone in the tech and crypto of late. The term Web 3.0 is now a part of everyday conversation. However, you won’t seem serious about it until you own an NFT domain. Web 3.0, the internet of tomorrow, is an umbrella term that combines different ideas aimed at a…
After weeks of delays due, in part, to partisan obstructionism, the United States Senate has confirmed the nomination of Lael Brainard, a member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, as the next vice chair of the central bank. In a 52–43 vote on the Senate floor on Tuesday, U.S. lawmakers confirmed Brainard a vice chair of the Federal Reserve…
Liquid staking has grown in popularity over the past year thanks in part to the launch of the Ethereum beacon chain and the inability of ETH stakers to withdraw their tokens until the full launch of the consensus layer. As a result, Lido (LDO) has established itself as a leader in the liquid staking sector. Lido is one of the main staking…
Brokerage app Robinhood is laying off 9% of its workforce, according to a statement from CEO Vlad Tenev today. Tenev called the decision “necessary,” citing a change in Robinhood customers’ behavior. “We’re anticipating and being responsive to changes in the way our customers invest—especially during this time of global conflict, economic uncertainty, and high inflation,” Tenev said in the blog…
The below is a full, free excerpt from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Bitcoin Magazine’s premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox, subscribe now. Public Miner Equities Versus Bitcoin As for most risk-on assets, including bitcoin and public bitcoin mining equities, the drawdowns…
press release PRESS RELEASE. San Diego, CALIF. – April 26, 2022 – Permission.io, the leading provider of permission-based Web3 advertising, today announced it’s migrating away from its own proprietary blockchain to Polygon, the world’s preeminent Ethereum scaling solution with more than 100 million unique users. The migration is the company’s first in a series of steps designed to make the…
Analyzing Ether’s (ETH) current price chart paints a bearish picture, which is largely justified by the 11% drop over the past month, but other traditional finance assets faced more extreme price corrections in the same period. The Invesco China Technology ETF (CQQ) is down 31% and the Russell 2000 declined by 8%. Ether price at FTX, in USD. Source: TradingView…
Bitcoin miner CleanSpark has agreed to borrow up to $35 million from Trinity Capital to purchase more mining equipment. The three-year financing agreement has been secured by 3,336 new S19j Pro Bitcoin mining rigs, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing submitted Friday. The company has 23,000 Bitcoin miners in operation, and expects to add 12,000 before the end…
Amboss Technologies is launching Magma, a new marketplace for buying and selling liquidity on the Lightning Network. Magma uses a novel “HODL” invoice that awaits three on-chain confirmations before completing the purchase of a channel.The marketplace will also track reputation, removing repeat offenders and confirmed cheaters. Lightning Network startup Amboss Technologies is launching Magma, a peer-to-peer (P2P) liquidity marketplace for…
