This post will provide the groundwork for a major rework of the Ethereum scripting language, which will substantially modify the way ES works although still keeping many of the core components working in the exact same way. The rework is necessary as a result of multiple concerns which have been raised about the way the
XRP is starting to outperform in a way that gets attention. The token is up about 8% on the week and around 3% on the day, pushing ahead of bitcoin and ether, but the move still looks controlled rather than explosive. That keeps the focus on whether this is early accumulation or just another range-bound
Summary Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has accused crypto exchange Zondacrypto of using “Russian funds linked to organized crime” and “Russian security services” to finance opposition politicians and block a MiCA‑style crypto bill. Tusk told parliament that some lawmakers fighting his government’s crypto‑asset legislation were “serving the interests” of Zondacrypto, which he said sponsored a
My previous post introducing Ethereum Script 2.0 was met with a number of responses, some highly supportive, others suggesting that we switch to their own preferred stack-based / assembly-based / functional paradigm, and offering various specific criticisms that we are looking hard at. Perhaps the strongest criticism this time came from Sergio Damian Lerner, Bitcoin
There are 21 million bitcoin. That number is fixed, coded into the protocol, finite. It is one of the most consequential design decisions in the history of money, and yet for most people it remains an abstraction. Green digits cascading down a black screen like something out of The Matrix, or a talking point tossed
Bitcoin technical analysis turned decisively bullish Thursday as BTC cleared $77,000 and climbed above its 100-day moving average for the first time since the early February selloff, triggering a 12%+ surge in Strategy shares as the company’s 780,897-BTC treasury gained roughly $1.6 billion in value in a single session. Summary BTC absorbed $450 million in
There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain notwithstanding, perhaps the first major breakthrough after blinding and zero-knowledge proofs is fully homomorphic encryption, a technology which allows you to upload your data onto a server in an encrypted form so that the server can then
Summary Coinglass data show about $1.044 billion of Ethereum longs would be exposed to forced liquidations on major centralized exchanges if ETH drops below $2,323. On the upside, a clean move above $2,563 would flip pressure onto bears, with roughly $531 million of short positions at risk of liquidation across the same venues. The new
Bitcoin developer Gregory Maxwell writes the following on Reddit: There is a design flaw in the Bitcoin protocol where its possible for a third party to take a valid transaction of yours and mutate it in a way which leaves it valid and functionally identical but with a different transaction ID. This greatly complicates writing
XRP launches on Solana as wXRP, rises 5% to $1.50, unlocking DeFi access with over $100M liquidity and strong market demand. XRP has officially launched on the Solana network as wrapped XRP, known as wXRP. As a result, the token price increased by 5.15% and reached $1.50. Additionally, this introduction creates new opportunities to XRP
