The crypto market is on the uptrend, with Bitcoin and most altcoins hovering at their highest point in over a week. Bitcoin (BTC) was at $112,866—up 5.3% from $107,088 a week ago—while total market capitalization climbed 14% to $3.73 trillion from this month’s low of $3.24 trillion. Source: CoinGecko Summary Bitcoin and the crypto market
I’ve been thinking recently about post-apocalyptic wastelands. Specifically, about this scene from Mad Max: Fury Road, when the main characters have just escaped the first wave of pursuit, and are staying ahead of their would-be captors. They need to keep moving, but still need to do maintenance on the centerpiece of the movie: a gigantic
Global crypto markets saw a flurry of political and corporate developments last week, underscoring how digital assets continue to intertwine with state policy, finance, and tech. Peruse this week’s edition of the weekly recap for crypto.news’ coverage of who President Trump picked to be the next Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s chair; Kyrgyzstan’s unveiling of a
As always, a lot continues to happen on the eth2 front. Aside from written updates (check out the State of Eth2 post below) and other public summaries, client teams, contributors, and community members/prospective-validators have been busy! Today, we’ll cover some significant deposit contract news, and big steps toward implementation of spec version v0.12. tl;dr Solidity
Coinbase’s x402 payment protocol has recorded nearly 500,000 transactions in a single week, indicating a massive spike in adoption. Summary Coinbase’s x402 protocol processed 500K transactions, up 10,780% in a month. The protocol allows payments between AI and humans using stablecoins over the internet. x402 powers API monetization, AI payments, and on-chain microtransactions. The online
*This is part #1 of a series where anyone can ask questions about Geth and I’ll attempt to answer the highest voted one each week with a mini writeup. This week’s highest voted question was: Could you share how the flat db structure is different from the legacy structure?* State in Ethereum Before diving into
Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. Not to sound the doomsday alarm prematurely, but the so-called ‘jobpocalypse’ isn’t a distant threat; the early signs are here right now. It’s no longer just lean startups trimming headcount or ‘restructuring’.
Testnets, testnets, testnets! tl;dr Medalla testnet Following the excellent stability of Altona and based on conversations with eth2 client teams, Medalla – the next multi-client testnet – will have a MIN_GENESIS_TIME of 1596546000 (or for those of you that don’t think in unix time — August 4th, 2020, 1pm UTC)! This is a major step
After the biggest crypto deleveraging event in five years, Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine Immersion Technologies, says the worst may be over — and a year-end rally could be in sight. The Oct. 10 liquidation, triggered in part by rising U.S.-China trade tensions, erased billions in leveraged positions across digital assets. “That was the biggest
After months of hard work from the eth2 research team, along with Consensys and DeepWork Studio, we’re happy to announce the release of the eth2 validator launchpad (testnet version). We’re releasing it now so that you can keep track of, and make deposits into, the upcoming Medalla multi-client testnet. But we’ll continue to fine-tune the
