The recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that knocked out major crypto and fintech platforms, including Coinbase, Robinhood, MetaMask and Venmo, has reignited debate over how decentralized Web3 really is. While blockchains continued producing blocks […]
The Bitcoin mining industry is becoming increasingly competitive, with so-called tier-2 operators closing the gap on established leaders in realized hashrate — a sign of a more level playing field following the 2024 halving. According […]
Cryptocurrency valuations staged a modest recovery this week as investor appetite for digital assets returned after the recent market crash. In a silver lining to the correction, the $19 billion liquidation event may be seen […]
Fireblocks, a digital asset infrastructure company, announced on Thursday that it acquired Dynamic, an enterprise-focused wallet provider. The integration of Dynamic’s tech stack into Fireblocks adds to the company’s suite of institutional-grade services, which includes […]
Researchers at tech giant Google said they mapped out the structure of a molecule 13,000 times faster than the most powerful “supercomputers” available today, achieving the first verifiable quantum advantage. The experiment used Google’s Willow […]
Key takeaways A crypto inheritance plan is vital because losing private keys or seed phrases can permanently make assets like Bitcoin, Ether and NFTs unrecoverable. A strong inheritance plan includes asset inventories, secure access instructions […]
Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark’s shares soared over 13% on Monday, after the company announced a strategic expansion into artificial intelligence. CleanSpark, the fifth-largest Bitcoin (BTC) mining company by market capitalization, announced a new strategy […]
Roman Storm, a developer of the Tornado Cash privacy-preserving protocol, asked the open source software community whether they are concerned with being retroactively prosecuted by the US Department of Justice for developing decentralized finance (DeFi) […]
After surging to a record high above $126,000, Bitcoin and the broader crypto market have been shaken by unprecedented volatility — literally. On Friday, crypto markets saw their largest-ever liquidation event, totaling roughly $19 billion. The […]
North Korean hackers have adopted a method of deploying malware designed to steal crypto and sensitive information by embedding malicious code into smart contracts on public blockchain networks, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group. The […]